On Apr 16, 3:55=A0pm, cloud dreamer <Global_Warm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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. =A0Are we sure the movie's from 20th Century Fox
rather
> > than Fox Faith?...
>
> No worse than The Phantom Menace.
Remember, though, that the original STAR WARS began (and flourished)
as a Saturday matinee serial revival... for which 'The Phantom Menace'
is a great title (though less so a movie).
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