io9 announcement: “The R-Rated Director’s Cut of ‘The X-Files’ Movie Has a Title and Release Date”

Non-clickbait title: The X-Files: “I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn” coming August 14 on Hulu and Disney+. As previously announced, an R-rated cut reworked by Chris Carter.

Spoiler: this means “Doctor Frankenstein” in Russian. A reference to the plot and perhaps to what Carter did, resurrecting an 18-year-old movie with discarded parts.

Disney+ announcement:

Experience the brand new, never-before-seen R-rated Chris Carter Director’s Cut, faithfully restoring the filmmaker’s original vision. When a group of women are mysteriously abducted, it becomes a case right out of The X-Files™. Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace. In a case you’d never see on TV, their only lead is a disgraced, defrocked priest claiming to have horrific psychic visions of the crime. Forced to confront the ghosts of their past, the partners must navigate a chilling winter landscape and an even darker human monstrosity. The truth of these crimes is out there somewhere… and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it.

How different will it be? Will it make use of images in the original trailer that were cut from the final release? Will this get a physical release? Will this be the last new material we will see of Mulder and Scully?

The all-new bottom-up edit of the 2008 movie “I Want To Believe” is coming 11 June on streaming! As announced by Polygon.

• More on what this is about in this Carter interview from December
• How different can this director’s cut be?
• Very soon! I thought they would somehow use this to promote the new Coogler spin-off but that won’t be coming out in a long while yet. Odd.
• Unceremoniously dumped on streaming with no physical release? Boo!
• A summer release for a winter movie. Didn’t they learn anything the first time around?