{"id":448,"date":"2008-04-22T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=448"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:31:38","slug":"nycc-x-files-creator-chris-carter-wants-you-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/22\/nycc-x-files-creator-chris-carter-wants-you-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"NYCC: X-FILES Creator Chris Carter Wants You To BELIEVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Right at the start, X-Files<\/strong> film producer Frank Spotnitz warns us not to believe anything we may read about the upcoming film based on the popular 1990s television series..<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can tell you is, is that there\u2019s a lot of information on the internet and there\u2019s a lot of speculation that stuff is planted or is leaked,\u201d he states. \u201cFor our purposes all that speculation is perfect because we don\u2019t want anybody to trust anything they read on the internet. We don\u2019t want the surprise spoiled. I would say, \u2018Trust no one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

An interesting and ironic position, if partially tongue-in-cheek, considering that the film’s subtitle- I Want To Believe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Although the film\u2019s late July release is still a few months away, Spotnitz and X-Files<\/em> creator Chris Carter are at the New York Comic Con to promote the film. While they may be coy about the details of the film\u2019s storyline, the pair were ready to talk to journalists about why they decided to return to the franchise\u2019s world of covert alien invasion, government conspiracies and things that just flat out defy rational explanation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason we\u2019re doing this is because of the hardcore fans,\u201d states Carter. \u201cOne of the other reasons we\u2019re doing this movie is that we want to introduce [The X-Files<\/em> franchise] to a whole new audience, including kids who may have been too young when the show first came out sixteen years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

But how to make the television series\u2019 nine year\u2019s worth of evolving modern mythology of conspiracy theories \u201cuser friendly\u201d to a new audience? Acknowledge that it is there, but don\u2019t make knowledge of it a factor in understanding the film\u2019s plot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardcore fans are important to us and they\u2019re going to be the first ones in line for the movie, so we wanted to honor their devotion to the show and be true to the characters,\u201d states Spotnitz. \u201cEven if it\u2019s not a \u2018mythology\u2019 movie, Mulder and Scully are front and center. Their characters have been through a lot. They\u2019re a little older and we\u2019re a little older and we could connect pretty deeply to them in the end and what they\u2019ve been through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter concurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what we\u2019re doing is what we actually planned to do even before the TV series ended, which was to take the opportunity to take what we did well, which is to tell a standalone story,\u201d he explains. \u201cAlso, a dozen years of passed, which allows us to not have to reconnect to a mythology which was complex. It gave instant access to the movie to a whole new audience. It\u2019s funny, because I thought up a lot of those ideas and they\u2019ve disappeared from my head. I\u2019ve sometimes had to refresh my memory. I didn\u2019t want make people to go through that trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter also is quick to point out that just because the film is not going to address any of the plot threads left dangling when the show went off the air in 2002, the series main characters, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, have continued to grow in the intervening years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an extension,\u201d he elaborates. \u201cThese characters have lives beyond the end of the TV series and this is were we imagine they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the nice dividends in how long its taken us to do this, as its given us a lot more to explore and dramatize than we would have if we had done this immediately after the show ended,\u201d Spotnitz adds.<\/p>\n

X-Files<\/em> fans come in two varieties- the ones who are intrigued by the show\u2019s mysteries and conspiracies and those who are fascinated by the relationship between its two leads, Mulder and Scully. One could say that the Spotnitz and Carter definitely fall into that later camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, \u2018The truth is out there,\u2019 is more about connecting to another person than the cosmic truth of aliens and things,\u201d admits Spotnitz. \u201cThat\u2019s the joy of doing The X-Files<\/em> in that it\u2019s fun and scary and entertaining viscerally, but then it\u2019s also about big ideas because you\u2019re dealing with two smart characters who differ intellectually in their approach to their investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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