X-Files: I Want to Believe is an American supernatural thriller of 2008 directed by Chris Carter and written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz. This is the second film of Carter's X-Files franchise, following the 1998 film. The three main actors of the television series, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Mitch Pileggi, reappear in the movie to re-enact their respective roles as Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and Walter Skinner.
Unlike the first film, the plot does not focus on the mytharc-based series of 'space-based themes', but works as a stand-alone horror thriller, much like many monster-of-the episodes -week often seen on TV series. The following story is Mulder and Scully who has been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation as a fugitive from the organization and Scully after becoming a doctor in a Catholic-run hospital, where he has established friendly relations with severely ill patients. When an FBI agent was mysteriously kidnapped, and a former pastor who had been convicted of being a child molester admitted experiencing psychic eyesight from an endangered agent, Mulder and Scully reluctantly accepted the FBI's request for their special paranormal expertise on the case.
The film was first anticipated in November 2001 to follow the end of the ninth season of the television series, but remained in a development hell for six years before entering production in December 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The film premiered on July 23, 2008, at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood before being opened theatrically two days later on July 25th. Since its release, the film has received mixed reviews from critics.
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Plot
Dana Scully, a former FBI agent, is now a staff doctor at a Catholic hospital; he treated Christians, a boy with symptoms similar to Sandhoff's disease. FBI agent Mosely Drummy approached Scully for help in finding his former partner, Fox Mulder, who has been hiding as a fugitive for several years. Drummy states that the FBI will cancel his hunt for Mulder if he helps investigate the disappearance of some women in West Virginia, the latter being a young FBI agent named Monica Bannan. Scully agrees and convinces Mulder who is reluctant to help.
The duo was taken to Washington, D.C., where Agent Dakota Whitney solicited Mulder's expertise with paranormal because they had been led to the clues, the disconnected human arm, by Father Joseph Fitzpatrick Crissman. He is a former pastor who was dismissed for committing the persecution of thirty-seven altar boys, and claimed that God sent him a vision of evil. A second woman, driving home after a swim at a natatorium, ran off the road with a truck driven by Janke Dacyshyn, who later kidnapped her. Pastor Joe was again recruited to help the abducted second woman. After a grueling night-time search on a snow-covered field, he led the FBI to where it turned out to be the grave ground of people and frozen bodies. Remnant analysis, along with tracking the last movement of a second kidnapped female car accident, eventually took them to Dacyshyn, an organ transporter in Richmond, Virginia, and her husband, Franz Tomczeszyn, who was among the boys of Joe who suffered sexual abuse..
During the FBI attack at the organ donation facility where Dacyshyn worked, he finally escaped, leaving Bannan's head cut off at the scene. Mulder, who accompanied Whitney in the attack, chased Dacyshyn to a construction site. Whitney followed, and was killed when Dacyshyn pushed him down the elevator shaft. Scully, looking for a resolution, asks Joe, who has not heard of Bannan's chief discovery, if he feels that he's alive. He replied that he was. Desperate but still determined, Mulder decides to investigate further incidents. He started by driving a Scully car to Nutter's Feed Store in a small town near the abduction, because human remains contain acepromazine, an animal tranquilizer. When Dacyshyn accidentally arrived moments later, Mulder slipped out and followed her. Dacyshyn noticed him, however, and ran his car off the road. Mulder survives and manages Dacyshyn's tail, which comes out of his truck after the engine fails, to a small complex in a former warehouse. Mulder came in, and the commotion caused by the two-headed guard brought Dacyshyn out of one of the buildings. These compounds are used by eastern European medical teams that have killed people and stolen their organs for years. The field where Pastor Joe had previously found the bodies turned out to be their exile. Mulder enters the building to discover that the team has used organs and body parts in an attempt to keep Tomczeszyn alive. At that time, they tried to place the head of Tomczeszyn on the body of the second kidnapped woman. Mulder tried to save him from a terrible fate, but a doctor came from behind and injected him with a sedative. Powerless, Mulder is brought out to be killed by Dacyshyn.
Scully, unable to contact Mulder on his cell phone, contacted his former boss, Walter Skinner, for help. They triangulate the location of the phone and find a damaged Scully car, eventually walking through the snow to find the compound when Mulder gets fired by Dacyshyn. Scully attacked him in the next confrontation, paralyzing him, while Skinner stopped the medical procedure before the young woman was beheaded. Then, Mulder was at home when Scully told him that Pastor Joe had died. It happened at the same time, Mulder notes, that Scully disconnected life support support to Tomczeszyn's disconnected head. Somehow, he guessed, the fate of the two men was related more than a vision.
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Cast
Production
Development
In November 2001, the creator of the X-Files TV series decided to pursue the second feature film adaptation of the series, after the 1998 film. Carter is expected to collaborate with Spotnitz, who has co-authored the first film, on the script for follow-up. The production of the film is scheduled to begin after the completion of the ninth season of the TV series, with a projected release in December 2003. In April 2002, Carter reiterated his desire and the desire of the studio to make sequel films. He plans to write a script over the summer and start production in the spring or summer of 2003 for release in 2004. Carter describes a film that says, "We see the film as a loner." They do not have to deal with mythology. Directed by Rob Bowman, who directed the episode of The X-Files in the past and the 1998 film, expressed interest in filming the sequel in July 2002.
In April 2004, Duchovny said he waited for the production of the film to begin, explaining that Carter had signed the premise. Duchovny said of the delay, "So now it's just a matter of making sure everyone can get together at the same time and do it." In the following November, Carter revealed that the project was in negotiation, explaining, "Since this is a sequel, there are certain types of special and distinctive negotiations that hold us back." Duchovny talks about the premise for a film produced in 2005, "Mulder and Scully investigate a particular case that has nothing to do with alien life. It has something to do with the occult." He also explained, "I think we're going back to the monster of the week type nuance, where if you're not a big fan and do not understand mythology, you can still come and get the movie." Duchovny and Carter plan to start production in the season cold 2005 which will be released in the summer of 2006. The next April, Duchovny recognizes the lack of a script, adding that Carter will be ready by early next year.
In May 2006, Spotnitz blamed the ongoing delays on legal issues between Carter and 20th Century Fox. The screenwriter anticipates, "Once the legal issue is over we will continue, I hope it will be resolved soon." In April 2007, Spotnitz asserted that the manuscript was finally developed. In the following October, the studio officially announces the production of sequel films, whose premises will be kept secret.
Filming
The main photography takes place in Vancouver and Pemberton, in British Columbia, Canada. According to Spotnitz, the script was written specifically for these locations. The filming began in December 2007 in Vancouver under Carter's direction, and the filming was completed on March 11, 2008. In the teaser footage shown at Wondercon on February 23, 2008, the date "July 25, 2008" appeared at the end, and the only text in trailer. On March 27, 2008, the horror movie site Bloody Disgusting reported pirated videos from official trailers uploaded by users on YouTube. The first public trailer was released after midnight on May 12, 2008, after a period of downtime on the official website.
The decision to take pictures in Vancouver, where the first five years of The X-Files has been filmed and produced before the series moved to Los Angeles, was the initial idea; which seems appropriate for Chris Carter and David Duchovny. According to Duchovny, "It all makes sense.You know, when Chris and I first talked about doing this movie, we unconsciously said, 'You know, I think it should be in Vancouver, it really should be,' and it feels as you know, it's almost like the right superstition to do. "Film making in Vancouver also facilitates the return of many former crew members who previously worked on The X-Files, as well as individuals who have worked on other created series Ten Thirteen Productions. Frank Spotnitz says that "In terms of filming we have collected as many people as possible, not only from The X-Files but from all the events we did here in Vancouver -
The outside of Monica Bannan's house was actually filmed in Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada, a location that Spotnitz finds to be beautiful but very cool. Although the location is shown in the exterior image that is inserted into scenes where Fox Mulder (Duchovny), Whitney (Amanda Peet), Drummy (Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner), and Pastor Joe (Billy Connolly) drove to the lost agent's home, The same also includes the recording of the actors who were filmed on stage, using rear projection to show the exterior from inside the car. The latter method is used for all shooting in which every traveler appears.
Several other locations were filmed in and around the Pemberton Valley. The key scenes were also filmed in the Riverlands. The interior of Scully's house is a set in Burnaby, just outside Vancouver. The set is an old roller rink or at least sounds like it, as it is very noisy. During the filming, Carter put the carrot juice bottle on the set table, just finished drinking, because he thought it would be "some kind of Mulder's nice touch." Some artwork at Mulder's office came from a Carter friend who owns a gallery in Vancouver and is named Monica Reyes, a name that had previously been used in his honor for a character that featured a recurring role in the eighth season of this series. and featured as the main character in every episode of the ninth season of this series. One of the pictures on Mulder's office wall is by Douglas Coupland, shown in the real gallery of Monica Reyes and has written a book that Carter likes to be called Hey Nostradamus! , so Carter enters Post-It where he writes the title of the book into the picture.
The outer part of the dorm for the customs sex offender where Pastor Joe lives is actually an apartment complex in Vancouver that is scheduled to be demolished while a production crew is filming there. The snow that can be seen outside the dorm is actually a fake snow imported by the crew and created by the Special Effect Department of the film. Bill Roe and Mark Freeborn work together to create a creepy green light at a location using a green light. The production crew also created their own smoke factory for the chimney in the background, when Carter came to the opinion that the chimney made the location look like London. The inside of Joe's apartment is another set and exactly like the actual apartment, except that it's a little bigger. A trans-light is inserted into the set to resemble the daylight seen through the apartment window. The set also has a porch that is used for some shooting in scenes where Mulder and Scully are outside the apartment. Additional shooting was done at Coquitlam, another suburb of Vancouver, in Unit 8 of Riverview Hospital.
Title
The Done One code name is used as the working title of the movie during movie creation, with a location mark labeled "Done One Production." His name means the producers have already done a movie. "The Crying Box Productions" is listed as a production company, instead of the usual Carter "Ten Thirteen Productions." The Hollywood Reporter posted a series of information sheets about upcoming studio films, and Fox's 20th Century fact sheet refers to the film as The X-Files: Done One .
On April 16, 2008, the official title of the film was announced: The X-Files: I Want to Believe . Carter refers to the title as a "natural title", saying that it is "a story involving difficulties in mediating faith and science." I Want to Believe. " It really shows Scully's struggle with his faith. "Carter also said that he and Spotnitz set the title once they started writing the scenario. This title is a popular phrase among fans of X-Files . It's displayed on a UFO poster on Mulder's desk.
Music
After The X-Files was canceled in 2002, Chris Carter and his crew started working with the intention of releasing the second X-Files movie. In 2003, Carter called Mark Snow, who at the time was living in London, United Kingdom and said he wanted him back for another movie. Snow was positive about the idea, but the shoot stalled due to contract problems between Fox and Carter. After the contract issue was resolved, Carter contacted Snow about the development, and then sent him a script for the film. Carter and his production crew wanted as much of the film's secrecy as possible, forcing Snow to sign a contract when he received the script. After reading the script three times, Snow started "visual" for the story. Snow originally wrote several demos, with which Carter and Frank Spotnitz were not happy, but they were finally accepted when Snow re-recorded them.
When composing the score for I Wanna to Believe , Snow calls it "different" from the previous film that follows it shows the mythical storyline about government and alien conspiracy. He said it was much "more heart, warmth and melodious music" because the film is based more on the relationship of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson).
Snow recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony in May 2008 at Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox in Century City, California. This music is fully written and organized. When making music, Snow uses instruments like "drum batteries" taiko drums and whistles with live singers among other things. It took four days to record with the orchestra. He does not use trumpets and no high woodwinds while recording, but uses up to eight French horns, five trombones, two pianos, one harp, thirty-two violins, sixteen violas, twelve selos and eight basses.
The UK Viewer UNKLE is recording a new version of the theme music for the ultimate credits for the film. Some unusual sounds are created by silly putty variations and dimes tucked between and above the piano strings. Mark Snow also commented that the fast percussion shown on multiple tracks was inspired by the song "Prospectors Quartet" from the soundtrack of There Will Be Blood.
Marketing
Novel
Novelization by Max Allan Collins was released by Harper Entertainment on July 29, 2008.
Release
box office
The film earned $ 4 million on its opening day in the United States. It opened fourth on the US weekend box office chart, with gross of $ 10.2 million. At the end of the theatrical trip around the world, it has grossed $ 20,982,478 domestically and an additional $ 47,386,956 internationally, with a worldwide gross of $ 68,369,434. Among the 2008 releases around the world, it ended in 78th place. As a domestic release, it finished in 114th place.
The film stars claim that the movie's release time, a week after the highly popular Batman movie The Dark Knight, negatively affected its box-office repayment.
Home media
Fox Home Entertainment released the movie on DVD and Blu-ray on December 2, 2008. The home release includes an extended piece that adds an additional four minute recording into the movie, including extra hardness and character moments. The latest available data shows it has grossed $ 16,338,379 from US DVD sales.
Reception
The film received negative criticism from critics. Metacritic, which provides a normalized ranking of 100 reviews from major film critics, reports that there are "mixed or averaged" reviews, with an average score of 47 based on 33 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 32% of the 161 listed film critics gave positive reviews on the film, with an average rating of 4.8 out of 10. The website writes about the consensus of critics who state; "The chemistry between leader David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson really corresponds to the broadcasted TV X-Files Inheritance , but the roving and routine of babbling makes it difficult to identify what we are doomed to believe. "
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times found the movie "baggy, draggy, strange timing and weird from the target" and that "Mr. Carter knows how to draw your attention visually, but the amalgam of the cliche trash thriller that he has compiled with Frank Spotnitz, another regular series, creates its own deadly effect ". Frank Lovece of Journal International also said, "What plots are there like PG-13 Se7en: body parts, gruesomeness, gloom and doom, but hey, not too much, and do not worry, nothing is particularly disturbing, "and while praising cinematography, Gillian Anderson's music and performance, believes," It's unlikely that this franchise will reach X-Files X. " Jason Anderson of Canada CBC News called the movie "chaotic" with the climax of "rush and half-baked", and said, "Beyond the pleasure of seeing Duchovny and Anderson back in action and returning to form," movie "offers little to either old fans or newcomers ". Jan Stuart of the Los Angeles Times commented, "The X-Files is a load of malarkey, but it's malarkey wise and compulsively watchable." People can say the same about the first two-thirds of "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" before spinning out of control and into a freaky plane. "MA Crang, in his book Denying the Truth: Revisiting The X-Files after 9/11 praised acting, location and characterization, but felt that the script was the "biggest weakness" of the movie.
Roger Ebert gave positive reviews about the movie with three and a half of four stars, saying; "It involves real moral questions, as the Dark Knight does, it's not just about good and evil but about choice." He also feels "the film works like a thriller used to work, before they are required to contain a building-size criminal", also called the "skillful thriller" film. Sandra Hall from Sydney Morning Herald is more vague, saying, "... it's just about working, thanks for the sense of time and filing of the scenario." Empire gave the film three stars ("good"), but expressed a desire for Chris Carter to return to the more comedic and post-modern elements of the series on his next visit. Stephanie Zackarek is mostly positive against the film, saying; "I Want to Believe coming like a solid episode if it is not big from one of the early seasons of the show, a pretty tense story created by a director with a strong sense of how to tell a story." Mick LaSalle is also positive towards the movie, saying that you do not need to know anything about the previous setting and calling it an "exciting tension thriller with some tense moments." TV Guide Maitland McDonagh's reviewer gave a two and a half-star movie of four that said the film was not "sufficiently gripping to turn a heavy thriller into something really provocative or haunting." About the theme and the story, he said, "Such heavy attention is not the main thing of mainstream movies."
In preparation for the series miniseries of the series, Keith Uhlich of The A.V. Club suggests The X-Files: I Want to Believe is "much better than suggested by his reputation." He continued, saying: "Never this author believes that I Want to Believe ... are some useless additions to X-Files canon. a low-key study that is very conscious about Mulder/Scully dynamic, filtered, as usual, through the latest mystery mystery prism called to solve.If Fighting the Future , is handled magnificent fashion with a row of mysterious alien myths series, is The X-Files in summer blockbuster mode, I Want to Believe is his attempt at intimate space drama - more Ingmar Bergman than Michael Bay. "
Sequel
In some of the interviews Carter gave when the film came out, he said that if I Want to Believe proved to be financially successful, the third installment would be made back into the mythology of the TV series, with a special focus on alien invasion and colonization The Earth is prophesied in the final series, as it happened on December 22, 2012. Fox chairman Tom Rothman, responding to an interview question about the possibility of the third film X-Files, said in October 2008, "It really depends on Chris [Carter], David [Duchovny] and Gillian [Anderson] ". During an interview at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2009, Anderson was asked about the third movie and replied, "They are talking about maybe doing it in 2012. I think there is a discussion about it I do not know if it will happen or not, but there is no reason to do not do it. "Frank Spotnitz responded to his blog readers' request for clarification of Anderson's comments by denying that any deal was in place, saying," I'm afraid I have no news to report apart from our desire to make a third movie if there is an audience for it. " In an October 2009 interview, David Duchovny also said that he wanted to do the 2012 X-Files movie, but still do not know if he will get a chance.
In December 2009, Carter said he could not "ensure" another film would be made, but thought the international box office for the 2008 film made him at least a theoretical possibility. In an interview published in August 2012, Spotnitz said he talked about the idea of ​​the X-Files movie every chance he got, but still nothing happened up front, and it was a very short walk to the third film that concludes the original X-Files franchise that was made altogether. He blamed the poor performance of the 2008 movie on the fact that it was not about aliens. Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013, Carter, when asked about the third movie, was very unfocused, showing there was still no forward movement, and said, "We can handle it later." In August 2013, Carter said, "In an interview with Empire , that" It's really up to 20th Century Fox, do they have the will to do it.I think we're all interested in putting the band back together " adding that the third installment will return to mythology and that the date of colonization of the television series will not be ignored.
In March 2015, it is certain that there will be a six-episode miniseries on Fox, featuring Duchovny, Anderson, and several other members of the original cast, which will have stand-alone elements and mythology. In April 2017, it was announced that the series would return with the ninth episode of ten episodes that will premiere in January 2018.
See also
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References
External links
- X-Files: I Want to Believe about IMDb
- X-Files: I Want To Trust in AllMovie
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- X-Files: I Want to Believe in the American Film Movie Catalog
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