Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler‘s The X-Files.

Patel and Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.

Coogler will be writing and directing the pilot.

Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) is the showrunner. The X-Files creator Chris Carter will produce.

Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Zinzi Coogler are executive producing through Proximity Media alongside Yale and Carter.