Posted on 04/16/2008 12:42:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.
The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.
Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title Wednesday.
The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana Scully worked.
"It's a natural title," Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday during a break from editing the film. "It's a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. 'I Want to Believe.' It really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."
"I Want to Believe" comes 10 years after the first film and six years after the finale of the series, whose opening credits for much of its nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."
Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.
Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.
"It has struck me over the last several years talking to college-age kids that a lot of them really don't know the show or haven't seen it," Carter said. "If you're 20 years old now, the show started when you were 4. It was probably too scary for you or your parents wouldn't let you watch it. So there's a whole new audience that might have liked the show. This was made to, I would call it, satisfy everyone."
Hardcore fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to square one, though, Carter said. The movie will be true to the spirit of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through, he said.
"The reason we're even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we don't want to insult them by having to take them back through the concept again," Carter said.
Carter said he settled on "I Want to Believe" from the time he and co-writer Frank Spotnitz started on the screenplay. It took so long to go public with it because studio executives wanted to make sure it was a marketable title, he said.
The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent plot spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely existed when the first movie came out in 1998.
"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret," Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."
>>I believe that I read that these exact episodes are being released in a box set on DVD for folks to watch prior to the movie.<<
Really?
I may not buy it (I own a few) but I sure will rent it.
Actually, Arcadia is my fave of all time.
“Woman, make me a sam-wich.” is one of the best lines spoken on tv ever!
Yes, but Cher WAS NOT in the show- was she?
And that they use the names from the Dick Van Dyke show as their cover.
“Not Petrie, Peetrie. Like the dish.”
LOLOL!
No, it was a look-a-like but it worked and she sounded good singing “Walking in Memphis”!
LOL...I use it all the time at work.
LOLOLOL!
Good for you! Does it work?
Yes, well who wouldn't enjoy getting behind Scully and teaching her how to hit a fastball???? It's all in the hips Dana.
War of the Coprophages is also pretty funny. Her name is Bambi????
Bad Blood, Quagmire, Small Potatoes, ..... too many to list.
“Home” was good episode, too...set in Home, PA about 9 miles from where I grew up, except someone in the episode refers to a local road as, “the 119,” telegraphing their west coast routes. People in PA do not refer to roads as “the” route number....they just use the road #.
I get laughs, but I've never got a sammitch.
What you saw was the planet Venus. You are getting very sleepy.
Interesting....I've met people in both Oregon and Washington who also used, "the #" and assumed it was a left coast thing...unbeknownst to me they may have been transplants.
I live in Arizona and we call the 101 “the 101”.
I got bored with the UFO aspect almost from the start, lost track of the conspiracy, and quit watching those episodes. I really enjoyed almost all the episodes that didn’t deal with aliens though. It was like two separate shows.
That is one of the strange things about the X-Files, the show is famous for the conspiracy/UFO arch but really the best episodes are almost always stand alone stuff with no conspiracy no UFO and no connection to the “mystery”. When I think of good X-Files episodes I think of ones like Tooms and Attack of the Coporofages (however the heck that’s spelled) and Jose Chung.
I’m so sorry.
Mulder didn’t get one either.
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