Fans of The X-Files may remember that FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) had a poster that read, "I Want to Believe" on his basement office wall where he and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) worked.  Based on this, FOX has finally named the second big screen installment of the science fiction drama The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which is expected to hit theaters on July 25.

X-Files creator Chris Carter, who also serves as the movie director and co-writer, describes the “I Want to Believe” phrase as a “natural title” for 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," Carter said.

I Want to Believe comes 10 years after the first film was released and six years following the finale of the series, in which the opening credits for much of its nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."

Instead of dealing with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, the new X-Files movie focuses on a stand-alone story about the struggle between faith and science.  Nevertheless, diehard fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to square one as the film will still be true to the spirit of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through.

"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.  T his was made to, I would call it, satisfy everyone."

"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 added.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: FOX, TV Guide, Hollywood Reporter
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