Himesh Patel also wants to believe in Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot

Ryan Coogler has found his Mulder type. Himesh Patel is joining Danielle Deadwyler in Coogler’s upcoming X-Files reboot as the second half of the show’s pair of FBI special agents searching for whatever truth might be out there. However, simply because they’re enlisting in the bureau’s alien-hunting task force doesn’t mean they’re playing Mulder and Scully, beloved parts played for decades by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, respectively. Per Deadline’s sources, both Patel and Deadwyler will be playing new characters, which should ease the concerns of whatever sky-is-falling X-Files fans bemoan the casting of two very good and interesting actors for the roles. If they need more of an endorsement, Anderson recently said that the reboot is going to be “fucking cool.”