You won't believe the official title for 'X-Files 2'

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 3:23 PM Central

by Tim Briscoe

Finally, a little more than three months from its debut in theaters, the title of the second X-Files movie has been revealed.

The thriller starring Dana Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will be called The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to the Associated Press, Twentieth Century Fox signed off on the title just today.

What's really hard to believe is that it's been 10 years since the release of the first film in 1998. Time sure flies, doesn't it?

Here are a few tidbits on the film's plot from show creator and movie director Chris Carter, as relayed by the AP:

The movie will not deal with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.

Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.

The script itself has been a tightly guarded secret. Despite this, there have been rumors that the sexual tension between Mulder and Scully will finally be lifted in this movie. (Wink wink, nudge nudge.)