X-Files 2 Update

Just discovered the title to the new X-Files movie.

Ahem, th new X-Files movie will be titled "The X-Files: I Want to Believe (It Won't Suck)"

Here's more to the story.

The truth is out there.

How is this not going to suck?

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."

This property is so old, it started in the first year of the last year of the First Bush Administration. (1992, I did my math better this time.) There are people out there who don't even know what this is... how are you going to sell it? Especially after the series just totally tanked after the first useless movie.

"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."

So, what did that accomplish? You could watch them laugh out loud or be puzzled how this script got made, especially since that last movie came out in 1998!?