In an exclusive interview with Parade, the X-Files creator revealed that he deliberately pulled back on Fox Mulder and Dana Scully'sromantic material in the new cut, a choice he knows won't sit well with everyone. And while fans may have expected this restored version to simply be more gory, Carter says the real change is about something deeper.
"A lot of things have happened since 2008 when the movie came out," Carter said. "There have been two X-Files reboots, so I felt like the hardcore fans had gotten a lot of Mulder and Scully through those reboots, and we didn't need to have as much Mulder-Scully relationship romance in this movie. So I cut that back a bit, and I'm sure some people will be upset with me. But I felt what I really wanted to show was the scary movie we set out to make, and I feel like we've done that now."
"The X-Files” series creator/executive producer Chris Carter directs THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE. (Photo credit: Diyah Pera).The film's emotional foundation, Carter revealed, came from an unexpected source: a lecture by religious scholar Houston Smith. "I'll tell you quickly that 'Don't Give Up' came to me as a result of a lecture I had seen," Carter said. Smith had spent nearly an hour and a half discussing world religions, faith, darkness and light, when someone in the audience asked him to sum up everything he'd learned in a single phrase. "'Don't give up' is what he said," Carter recalled, words that made their way into the film. "Those were three magic words. They could be considered cliche, but it's the secret to life, is not giving up ever. That's what I wanted this movie to be about, as well as about Dr. Frankenstein."
Carter also opened up about a fight he lost the first time around, one that has stuck with him for nearly two decades. "We were asked to make a PG-13 movie, and so we thought we were making a PG-13 movie. When we showed it to the studio, they freaked out. They said, 'This isn't the PG-13 movie.' So we cut it back to satisfy the executives, and then we heard from the motion picture censors that we still didn't qualify for a PG-13 movie, so we had to cut it back even farther." Looking back, he called it a disappointment. "I feel like we never got to show the movie we set out to make."
A surprising revelation from the conversation traced the film's central horror (as well as a related two-headed dog), back to a scientist Carter spoke to firsthand. "The original inspiration for that was a doctor in Cleveland, Ohio, who performed successfully the transplant of a monkey's head onto another monkey, and I had to go see this man," Carter said. "I flew to Cleveland, and I got to sit and talk to him about it. I thought this was science fiction, and he has turned it into science fact. That's kind of X-Files territory right there. That's really what originally inspired the movie."
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Before wrapping up, Carter revealed he has a new project on the way with his wife. "It's called Queens for a Day," he said. "It's a horror fable, and we hope to have it in theaters in the next couple months." He described it as a story "about a very flawed person who has to go back and live life in someone else's shoes," adding with a laugh, "if that sounds a little like A Christmas Carol, it's not by mistake."
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