I Want to Believe, but do they?

In the words of Billy Connelly, “It’s heeereee!!” and it finally is. Callum and I have been eagerly waiting for The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Not only is it a ‘major motion picture event’ as the trailer keeps telling us, it finally gives the younger fans of XF the chance to experience some of the hysteria that occurred when the first movie was released. Or so we thought…



I suppose we’ve gotta give FOX some credit, they could have easily dismissed the idea of making another XF movie, the series being put to rest six years before. But they didn’t, and X-Philes everywhere were ecstatic. The day the first promo pictures came out, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Finally seeing Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny together again as Scully and Mulder was amazing. But since then, promotion has been staggered, constantly over-shadowed by other films. OK, so The Dark Knight is pretty important, but a similar TV-to-silverscreen effort Sex and the City: The Movie, received tons of promotion, despite the fact that the concept of the show isn’t as easily transferable to the big screen as The X-Files, or had any pervious successes in that format.

Chris Carter and Co. have constantly discussed that depending on the success of this film, a third or possibly more XF movies will be made. Well surely then, they would want to make sure that XF:IWTB does as well as possible to ensure this? Whatever the outcome, it’s stated as being a film to reward the fans, so whether it does well at the Box Office at all, there will hopefully be a treat in store for all of us who have followed Mulder and Scully on their quest throughout the years. Most definitely, I’ll be seeing it more than once, so I’ll be doing my bit!

Watch the skies…

Evangeline X