The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen with a grisly story about faith and the supernatural.
Source: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/979925/the-x-files-chris-carter-vrach-frankenshteyn-interview-hulu)