If you remember Fox Mulder’s office and the poster in the background with a picture of a UFO on it, the famous phrase below it read: “I want to believe.”

Hence the name of the new movie. You can see the original poster to the right. It’s like a staple among X-Files fanatics.

From KMOV.com:

“It’s a natural title,” Chris Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday during a break from editing the film. “It’s a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. `I Want to Believe.’ It really does suggest Mulder’s struggle with his faith.”

The title was actually picked out since the beginning, but Carter and company wanted to make sure it was a marketable one. I guess they think it is.

Personally, I think it’s appealing to X-Files fans, but others may see it a bit…weird. The first movie was labeled “Fight the Future“, so this one is in keeping with the style they’ve gone with in naming the films.

But “I Want To Believe” doesn’t instill a lot of excitement or anticipation to me, so we’ll have to see how well it goes over. I like it myself, just because I know the film is going to deal with Mulder’s beliefs that have plagued him since the beginning of the show, so it all makes sense to me.

The plot of X-Files 2 has been kept under lock and key, and only a few people on production know the entire story. Check out the lengths they went through to keep scripts from being leaked:

“We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret,” Carter said. “That included allowing only the key crew members to read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video cameras trained on them. It was a new experience.”

Below is a new shot of Mulder and Scully, showing them in some kind of church.

What do you think of the new title?

Source: KMOV.com

But the other thing that kept me interested was the great beauty of Dana Scully, played of course by Gillian Anderson, who really hasn’t been seen in any mainstream stuff in awhile. She’s done a few things for PBS and Masterpiece theater, but for the most part we don’t get to see her much.

Perhaps not early in the series, but as it went on, Scully just got more and more attractive. Maybe it was the dark overcoats, or the FBI badge, or the gun…but mostly it had to be that red hair. Yowsers.

Anyways, Gillian posed for Maxim this week, in an obvious move to hype the release of X-Files 2 on July 25th. She turns 40 in August, but you probably couldn’t tell from the photos below. Or at least, I’m blind to it.

I mean, she’s no Tina Fey…but let’s be honest. There is only one Tina Fey.

I’m telling you, the longer humans seem to be around, the younger everyone looks. 50 is the new 40.

Either way, the first photos of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the new X-Files 2 movie have hit the web at ComingSoon.net and while they aren’t of anything exciting, it is just awesome to see the duo back together in a brand new film.

The movie of course stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, along with newcomers to the series Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly and Xzibit.

Enjoy the photos. The movie hits theaters on July 25th.