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New X-Files Movie Title Announced!
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in The X Files: I Want to Believe by Diyah Pera/20th Century Fox
TVGuide.com has received confirmation from Fox that the second big-screen installment of The X-Files movie franchise finally has a title. Drum roll, please — the movie has been dubbed The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Fans of the show may remember that our favorite brooding FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) had a poster on his office wall that read, "I Want to Believe." "Believing" was a common theme in the nine-year TV series, as well as in the first feature film, The X-Files: Fight the Future.
Of course, this very vague title will only make fans more ravenous for details about the top-secret plot. What do Mulder and Scully want to believe in this time, since it was confirmed that the movie has nothing to do with aliens and conspiracies? What's your guess? — Erin Fox
Read about the X-Files event the at Paley fest.
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Apr 16, 2008 2:32 PM
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Hmm. Maybe the title will be appropriate in the context of the movie, but I still feel vaguely unsatisfied. At least it's not lame like The Phantom Menace. Regardless, the multiplex marquee will read "XFiles2" because all the summer titles will be too long.  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, anyone?
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Apr 16, 2008 4:08 PM
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My first gut instinct was, that's it? I wonder if that was the title Chris Carter said he wanted it to be at Paley Fest. But thinking about it more, it's really fitting with the series.
Very excited for the movie!
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Apr 16, 2008 4:11 PM
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That's it? Seriously? 99% of the gazillion EPISODE titles were better than this movie title, which sounds like the name of a David Hasselhoff power ballad. I am officially getting nervous that this movie is going to damage the deep and abiding love I have for Mulder, Scully, and the X-Files . . .
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Apr 16, 2008 5:00 PM
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How cute! That Chris Carter is such a sentimental so and so! I think it has something to do with the religiousy aspects of their dynamic.
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Apr 16, 2008 5:12 PM
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I love it!
Waaaay better than Fight the Future.
Thanks, Erin.
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Apr 16, 2008 7:01 PM
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I also kind of have the "that's it" feeling, but I know the movie will be great.
Who cares if the title is pretty blah.
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Apr 16, 2008 8:54 PM
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I like the title. To me it lets me know that they haven't forgot what made the X Files and that was Mulder's belief in the unknown and unexplained.
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Apr 16, 2008 10:31 PM
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Hey, at least it's not X-Files: The Last Crusade. Gives hope for follow-up movies. I would've gone with X-Files: Will Mulder and Scully Finally End Up Together? Or X-Files: X-Tacular. But seriously, X-Files: Trust Nobody would've been good too. To be honest, who cares about the title, as long as the movie is good.
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Apr 17, 2008 1:16 AM
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Well, so much for Chris Carter's preferred title of X-Files: Done One, eh? Looks like the studio won the battle of "who gets to pick the film's title".
It's almost certainly trying to play off of this exchange in the film:
Father Joe: So you believe in these kind of things?
Fox Mulder: Let's just say that I want to believe.
It's a stretch. And open to lots of joke versions of the title (quick examples: XF2: I Want Candy; XF2: I Want To Dance With Somebody; XF2: I Want To Believe That This Movie Won't Suck, etc.).
Then again, what do we expect from a Fox that is putting together a DVD release of 8 eps that are supposed to lead into the movie, and calling that DVD release "X-Files: Revelations", but is forgetting that the 11th episode of the show's third season was called "Revelations"...an episode that's not among the eight on this two-disc release. Huh. Loads of imagination there.
So, the 8 eps that you're supposed to watch before seeing this film (to "get clues and insight" about the new story) are The Pilot (Mulder & Scully meet), Beyond the Sea (Scully's dad as a ghost), The Host (the one with the Flukeman), Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (Everybody Loves Raymond's dad as a psychic who predicts Mulder's eventual death...hmmm), Memento Mori (Scully fights cancer), Post-Modern Prometheus (the B&W ep with the Frankenstein's monster dude who loves Cher and Jerry Springer), Bad Blood (Mulder kills a teen who may or may not be a vampire, and has to go before an FBI inquest and explain himself; Gillian's fave ep), Milagro (an author in Mulder's building writes a novel about heart-removing murders, and then they come true).
Not sure what these will all have to do with the movie (it's gonna be fun trying to figure it out), but it certainly proves that 9 seasons worth of episodes have a ton of better story titles than this new movie will.
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Apr 17, 2008 7:42 AM
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Hey Dave,
I think the episodes are either there for one of two themes: 1) "Believing" in something that seems impossible even when the evidence is clear. 2) The relationship bond that Mulder and Scully have. I really think that's why Momento Mori, Bad Blood, Milagro and PMP are in that group. And also, since it's a scary movie (so they say) I think that's why they threw in The Host to this bunch. (Unless Flukie makes a cameo, LOL).
I think we'll all have to kind of detach ourselves a little bit from the show to be able to catch up with the characters and where they are now. I know some people will love it, and some will hate it. There's just no getting around that with X Philes. I'm just excited to get more screen time with these iconic characters. And, I really hope they plan on wrapping up the movie franchise with the 2012 alien invasion storyline.
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Apr 17, 2008 12:56 PM
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Maybe they should sell stuff thru 7-Eleven. Then the title could be..."X-Files - Believe It or Slurp It"
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Apr 17, 2008 1:08 PM
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The afterlife?
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Apr 17, 2008 1:44 PM
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I haven't a clue, I think they should stay to they're main theme, in the last x-file movie , wasn't it implied that the calendar was coming to an end and that was to be the end of the world.
And weren't they together at the end of the x-file show. I just hope they know what they are doing, cuz we've all been waiting for this one a long time.
Hoping we don't get let down.
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Apr 17, 2008 1:50 PM
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You mean, they're still talking about making an X-Files movie? It's been so long, I don't know if there are as many people out there who really care anymore, I know I don't. I think they've lost their momentum for this, and it's time to bury it.
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Apr 17, 2008 2:58 PM
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