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."
How about “I Don’t Want To Be Hopelessly Screwed Over Again Because The Writers Don’t Have The Skill To Tie Up All The Plotlines They Invented Along The Way And Had No Idea How to Finish”?
I think if they had wrapped up the original premise of the show and the series after 5-6 seasons, the DVD sales would have kept the series alive for the younger viewers. They just dragged that thing out for so long that the payoff wasn’t worth it.
I'm psyched.
Do you see a script released on this yet?
Will Scully get William back? Will they just forget the last three seasons?
How about the Lone Gunmen?
Okay, I don’t want to be, but I’m geeked too. Especially since I have four original X-Files dolls sitting upstairs never opened. Ebay here I come!!!!
Lame Title. I liked their original tag line - “Truth is Out there”.
Excuse me while I go shake my cane at some whippersnappers. I'm getting the same feeling that I have whenever I see a "You must be born after this date in 1987 to buy alcohol" and realize that people born while I was in college are drinking legally.
But with 9/11 Trutherism and Global Warming theology very much alive in the real world, I don't find the premise welcome anymore.
Check this out...Gillian says these are the important episodes to watch before seeing the movie. (gotta get out those DVDs)
Pilot
Beyond the Sea
The Host
Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose
Memento Mori
Post-Modern Prometheus
Bad Blood
Milagro
I think I still need Season Six though!
I certainly wouldn’t say “No”. ;-)...
I loved Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose. The part where he’s talking to Mulder and insinuates that Mulder will die by auto-erotica-asphyxiation was hilarious. Post-Modern Prometheus was a funny episode as well, X-Files plus Cher, hilarity ensues.
Yeah Bill, but I might be for what I'm thinking about that little lady...
Yeah it just got too redundant. Every time they finally “revealed” the big plot of the secret masters it turned out there were other even more secret masters with a bigger plot. After 3 of those reveals I just got tired of it, I watched about half of the season after the movie and that was it, highly unlikely I’ll watch the second movie. I’ve moved on from the X-Files.
Interesting, all of those episodes involve psychics seeing crimes (or being involved in them (Post-Modern Prometheus)). That would be an interesting key to the plot, or a diversion for those who are trying to guess.
>>Post-Modern Prometheus was a funny episode as well, X-Files plus Cher, hilarity ensues.<<
I thought that was the one with Cher! It was in B&W, wasn’t it?
The thing that made X-Files so much fun for me was the humor. I hope they keep it for this one.
It actually became just another Soap Opera after Season seven, IMO.
Yeah, a little bit of it was in color, but mostly in B&W.
I liked the humorous eps. Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’ was a good one from early on.
I always thought that the show jumped the shark when many of the writers like James Wong left the show and they moved to LA. The acting from the major stars were good, but the supporting actors sucked.
"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.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.
So it's going to be about Global Warming then? Or the world government conspiracy to sell the public on a "change" scampaign? I like it. Especially in an election year.
So the new movie is going to be used to sell a boxed set of the old tv show episodes on DVD?
You mean the show was Fiction?!? I thought it was a documentary.
They said this movie is more like the Movie of the Week episodes they did, and not the alien government conspiracy story arc. I’m happy about that.
For your viewing pleasure..
Me too!
Ha. Ha. Yes, you're right. What nonsense...
THE LONE GUNMEN, Episode #1AEB79 (Pilot)
:-)
No Lone Gunmen. Crap!
We must be the same age.
That and, "The Unnatural" were the two very best episodes of the entire show.
Roswell ROSWELL!
“I didn’t play Dungeons and Dragons all those years without learning something about courage.”
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.
It’s a bleepin’ alien.
>>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 #.
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