FAQ for
The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The X-Files: I Want to Believe can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701/parentalguide.

Based on a long running science fiction TV drama, this movie follows two former FBI agents who used to work on the "X-Files", which were a series of cases involving the paranormal. They are asked to assist in a case involving a psychic in West Virginia.

Yes. The X-Files: I Want to Believe is partly inspired by a 1940s Russian documentary titled, "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms", in which a scientist claimed to keep a severed dog's head alive by using a machine called an "autojector". Scully discovers this while doing an online search, and the dog's head is briefly shown. The original documentary can be seen in its entirety at the Prelinger Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940

More detailed information can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms

Further information about whole-body & head transplantation(also depicted in the film) can be found on the following websites:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A01EEDE1F3EF936A35756C0A96E958260

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-body_transplant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant

Unlike the first X-Files movie, this one will not follow the alien conspiracy (aka "mythology") storyline. The movie is a supernatural thriller in the tradition of many of the show's "standalone" episodes.

The movie's events take place in the present time, six years after the end of the TV series, according to Frank Spotnitz in an interview with Movieweb.

104 minutes.

There's a possibility of a third movie, largely dependent on the financial success of this one. Chris Carter has said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he would like to make a third movie, one that would "fare better with those who have been long term devotees of the show" (http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/04/chris-carter-wa.html) with rumour being that it would follow the X Files mythology rather than the standalone nature of "I Want To Believe."

Yes, Chris Carter announced in an interview with German fans that the DVD release will include an extended cut of the film.

Yes, about 2 minutes into the credits the camera pans over the ocean showing Scully and Mulder in a rowboat. The both seem to be on vacation, which concludes the film with a happy end, instead of leaving the audience with Scully in the operation room.

The movie briefly lingers on a photograph of George W. Bush while the X-Files theme plays, then pans over to a portrait of Hoover and plays a more sinister sting.

yes, the film deals heavily with mulder and scully's romantic relationship, and the scene after the credit puts visual joke to this effect.