I Want To Believe
Thursday, May 08, 2008
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 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 standalone, earthbound story aimed at serious "X-Files" fans as well as 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.
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Now I have to give my friend Rick credit for this, he emailed me today to let me know the movie was out this summer and I had no idea it was anywhere close to being done. I remember reading about a 2nd movie a while ago but nothing ever came from it so I just accepted the fact that there would be no more Moulder & Scully. After a few minutes of searching I came across the treasure trove of info above regarding the movie. We have a wedding the nite the movie comes out but that's ok I can wait til Saturday and I really don't care for packed theatres.
For those of you who may not know, I am a huge X-Files fan and throughout college we couldn't head out to the bars until after the show was over even though I was taping it. And yes, for years I had the "I Want To Believe" poster hanging up in my room. Its somewhere in the basement and I should try to find a space for it once again.
I have yet to find a show written as well as the X-Files and I doubt I ever will. Criminal Minds is up there but they don't really tell a story that is built upon throughout the season. Bones tries to but the whole secret society of cannibals does not compete with aliens among us plotting to take over the world with an underground resistance made up of a 2nd race of aliens and a shadow govt.
Posted by mardenhill 5/08/2008 07:06:00 PM
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