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The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie

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The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen with a grisly story about faith and the supernatural. But executives at 20th Century Fox felt that Carter’s ideas were too dark, and he was pushed to turn the project into a PG-13 feature. Now, almost two decades after I Want to Believe‘s theatrical debut, Carter is back with a new director’s cut of the film for Hulu that’s much closer to his original vision.

“We got to tell a good X-Files story,” Carter said of the original …

Read the full story at The Verge.

  

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