Published May 11, 2026, 3:34 PM EDT Aunt Gladys is officially an X-File Ryan Coogler's X-Files casting news reveals an unexpected change from the original show Image: 20th Century Fox Sign in to your Polygon.com account 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 had over 20 episodes every season and Fox was probably unwilling to pay a fortune to get big stars every week.…