moviePig wrote:
> On Apr 16, 3:12 pm, 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?...
>
No worse than The Phantom Menace.
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