On Apr 16, 3:12=A0pm, Garondo Marondo <Classic.Mr.H...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer
>
> LOS ANGELES - 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."
>
> ___
>
> 20th Century Fox is owned by News Corp.
I think their "marketable title", umm [...gropes for exactly the right
word] ...sucks. Are we sure the movie's from 20th Century Fox rather
than Fox Faith?...
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