I want to believe - Movie Trivia

I want to believe - Movie Trivia

1. This movie is dedicated to Randy Stone, the casting agent who cast the pilot of “The X Files” (1993) (and therefore found David Duchovny to play Mulder and Gillian Anderson to play Scully). Stone died in 2007.
2. Joseph Patrick Finn, Producer of many X-files episodes, can be seen as the whispering priest seated next to Father Ybarra during the staff meeting where Scully first mentions using Stem Cell therapy.

   

   

3. The character named “Franz Tomczeszyn” shares the same surname as the movie’s costume designer Lisa Tomczeszyn.
4. When Mulder tries to call Scully from his cell phone, the display shows two names above hers and one name below. The two names above are Bowman and Gilligan, which can only be references to Rob Bowman (director of the first movie and several episodes) and Vince Gilligan (writer-producer of the show). The name below is Shiban, a reference to John Shiban (another writer-producer).
5. The film’s production was kept under a tight veil of secrecy in order to keep plot details from leaking to the public prior to its release. The code name “Done One” was used as the film’s working title during filming, along with a logo that was designed to deter suspicions of the film’s true nature. The Directors Guild production list specified “Rich Tracers” as the project’s attached director, which is an anagram of the actual director’s name, Chris Carter. A fake production company name, “The Crying Box Productions,” was used in work orders and information sheets. Fake scripts were produced for actor auditions. On any particular day of filming, only the pages required for that day’s scenes were distributed - and were then collected and shredded at the end of the day.
6. Mulder visits the Nutter feed store; David Nutter directed many episodes of the series.
7. When Scully is on her way to her office, Chris Carter (director) is seen sitting on a bench outside it.

1. The first time Mulder and Scully enter FBI Headquarters, they stop in front of a picture of President George W. Bush and as they look at it the six-note “X-Files” theme clearly plays, the only other time the theme is heard in the film other than the opening and closing credits.
2. When Mulder and Scully first walk back into the FBI offices right before they walk into the bullpen, a female agent walks by that catches Mulder’s attention and he watches her walk away. The woman is Vanessa Morley, who throughout the series played the young Samantha Mulder, and is the same Samantha in the photo Mulder has taped to the back of his home office door.
3. When Scully first visits Mulder in his rural home, Mulder is seen tacking up a story about “Princeton closes ESP Lab after 40 years of paranormal study” This is referencing a real-life event and place, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research facility, which was closed in 2007 after school administrators felt it unjustified to continue funding it. Originally the lab was tasked to investigate possible phenomena for the defense industry, such as if the minor electrical field present in the human body could interfere with sensitive electrical equipment when the body was placed under extreme stress, such as a fighter pilot involved in a dogfight causing his controls to malfunction. While the lab in its time failed to provide conclusive evidence that such things could occur, they did find in large-scale experiments that there was a statistically detectable influence. This was however at the tamer end of PEAR’s experiments which included such things as remote perception.