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Amid anticipation for **Ryan **Coogler’s X-Files reboot, which will star Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel as FBI agents, Disney+ has some terrific news for fans of the phenomenal sci-fi franchise. Having premiered decades ago, the series continues to have a major impact on popular culture and has since spawned multiple spin-offs, including Millennium and The Lone Gunmen, as well as two feature films, the 1998 film *The X-Files *and the standalone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original show’s finale.
With June only a few days away, we can confirm that Disney+ is scheduled to release a new X-Files entry next month related to the franchise’s 2008 film. That said, The X-Files: I Want to Believe — Director’s Cut arrives on the streamer on June 11, 2026, where it will be accessible as a bonus feature on the film’s existing platform page. The new Director’s Cut, unlike the 2008 modestly extended cut, is a separate endeavor that restores the horror-focused material which Chris Carter was forced to remove by **Fox executives and the MPAA **before the film’s original release.
Speaking about the new release on the ***Fail Better With David Duchovny ***podcast in 2025, Carter, who directed the movie as well as created The X-Files franchise, described it as “too scary” as he finally got the chance to make something he always intended after satisfying the demands of his superiors at Fox as well as the critics, and the MPAA, who wanted a PG-13 movie. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut,” he said at the time. “It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.”
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
As the second feature film in The X-Files franchise, I Want to Believe stars three main actors from the television series: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Mitch Pileggi, who reprise theirroles as Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and Walter Skinner. The sci-fi movie wasn’t as successful as its mothership, as it holds a 32% score on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and audiences. On top of that, it underperformed at the box office, earning $68.4 million against a $30 million budget. Such a disappointing run was partly due to backlash over its shift away from ***The ***X-Files’ trademark extraterrestrial mythology**, which instead focused on a standalone serial-killer story driven by psychic visions. Hopefully, the new cut will change the film’s overall legacy.
*The X-Files: I Want to Believe — Director’s Cut *arrives on Disney+ next month on June 11.
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