Ryan Coogler's X-Files casting news reveals unexpected change from the original show

Brian VanHooker is a Pop Culture Writer specializing in Celebrity Interviews and In-Depth Oral Histories in the areas of Comedy, TV, Film, Cartoons, Comic Books, 80s/90s Nostalgia, Fatherhood, Retro Games and Food (especially Pizza). He was the Senior Features Writer at Cracked and a Staff Writer at MEL. He has written for Inverse, Inside Hook, Maxim, Men's Health, Fatherly, SFGate and more. He's the co-creator of the comic book/cartoon Barnum & Elwood and The Tramp, an award-winning comedy pilot starring John O’Hurley. He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast called Turtle Tracks and was once called a “Good Guy” by Mr. T. Deadline is reporting that Ryan Coogler’s upcoming reboot of The X-Files will include at least three pretty high-profile guest stars: Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, and Amy Madigan, the last of whom is fresh off her Oscar win for Weapons. We don’t know who any of them will be playing yet, but generally, their casting points to a change in the way they did things in the original TV series. The original run of The X-Files almost never cast big guest stars. Instead, the series usually relied on less well-known actors. Most likely, this was a budgetary choice, as the show

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