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

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'Daily Variety' podcast dives into news, trends and personalities making headlines in showbiz 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.

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