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Chris Carter on X-Files: I Want to Believe
By Fred Topel | Image property of Fox
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Director Chris Cater Talks X-Files: I Want to Believe
"We told them what we were going to do," said Carter. "They agreed that that was the right thing to do after 16 years of this relationship. It felt like it would have been dishonest, if they are going to be together, not to show them together. So we told them about that, and they knew it was coming when they read the script."
Thanks for the tip, Chris. At least we know that I Want to Believe is a standalone story involving a possible psychic played by Billy Connolly. Even that remains up in the air.
"We never establish whether he was a real psychic or if he was just doing this to exonerate himself, if you will. So you have to take that on faith. There is a moment at the end of the movie, where Scully is looking down at the boy, and we wanted you to take that on faith as well."
With so many secrets, previewing an X-Files movie is out of the question. "We only showed it to family and friends. We did not do any market testing. Fox was adamant, as were we, about keeping the movie a secret. Also, I think you can really drive yourself crazy by showing it to a select group of die-hard fans. If you show it to 30, you are going to get 30 different impressions of what you didn’t do, or what you did do, or what you should have done more of. So we really went with our gut. That’s the way we always have worked on the show. Are there questions unanswered? There are so many questions, you couldn’t answer them all. It probably would have been a different kind of movie if we had tried to answer them all. Certainly, if we are successful here, I’m sure Fox will want to talk to us about another movie, but we did this movie as if it were the last time we were going to see Mulder and Scully because we just don’t know."
At least Carter can get specific about production details. Shooting in the snow is shooting in the snow, no mysteries there. "I’ll give you a brief idea of what it is like to work in the snow. One of the things you do on a movie set is you move all of your junk from one place to another. You are filming from one direction, so you have to move your junk over here, including the cameras. You roll it on wheels, or you drag it along. In the snow, it just doesn’t work that way. In the snow, you’ve got to get snowmobiles and sleds and it’s loud and smelly and time consuming. Communication, you don’t want to trample the beautiful snow, so the way you communicate with your actors is to yell in their direction, 'More of that! No, less!' Directing becomes by semaphore, and nothing prepares you for it until you do it."
The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens to theaters on July 25th.
For trailers, stills, posters and more info, go to The X-Files: I Want to Believe Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Fox
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