Ryan Coogler has officially cast the leads for his X-Files reboot, and Hollywood is holding its breath. The Black Panther director is attempting something the industry rarely pulls off: rebooting a property that was already perfect with its original stars.

According to The Horror Lounge, the new agents will step into the shoes—or should I say, the too-large trench coats—of David Duchovny's Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully. No pressure, right?

Here's the thing: Coogler is one of the few directors with the street cred to attempt this. Fruitvale Station was devastating, Creed resurrected a franchise everyone thought was dead, and Black Panther became a cultural phenomenon. The man knows how to honor legacy while creating something new.

But The X-Files without Duchovny and Anderson is like The Beatles without John and Paul. Even if the new cast is phenomenal—and they might be—they're competing with mythology. For an entire generation, Mulder and Scully are the paranormal investigation genre. Their chemistry was the show. Their banter was the show. Their slow-burn romance was the show.

This is Hollywood's eternal question: when does nostalgia become necrophilia? When does "honoring the original" become ? has earned the benefit of the doubt, but this is still a massive gamble.