LISTEN: How Chris Carter Got a Second Shot at ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Film

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On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, “The X-Files” creator Chris Carter explains to Variety’s Michael Schneider how he got the chance to do a director’s cut of his 2008 “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” feature film. The new cut dubbed “The X-Files: I Wanted to Believe: Vrach Frankenshteyn” debuted Aug. 14 on Hulu and Disney+ outside the U.S.

Carter points out that his preferred cut is actually shorter than the original release, which ran 144 minutes, per IMDB.

“I always felt like people didn’t see the movie I intended to make,” Carter says, noting that 20th Century Studios executive Steve Asbell helped get the director’s cut project off the ground. “I asked him, ‘Have you ever thought about doing a director’s cut?’ And it was really just offhand. And he said, ‘Why? Would you like to do one?’ I said, ‘I’d love to do one.’ I can tell you, though, the reason for doing the director’s cut for me is not to put all the stuff that was taken out, but to put the right stuff in that was taken out.”

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