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Logan is a 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the titular character. It is the tenth film in the X-Men film series and the third and final installment in the Wolverine trilogy following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). The film, which takes inspiration from “Old Man Logan” by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, based in a bleak future, follows an aged Wolverine and an extremely ill Charles Xavier who defend a young mutant named Laura from the villainous Reavers led by Donald Pierce and Zander Rice. The film is produced by 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, TSG Entertainment and The Donners’ Company, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Green and Scott Frank, from a story by Mangold. In addition to Jackman, the film also stars Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, and Dafne Keen.

Principal photography began in Louisiana on May 2, 2016, and wrapped on August 19, 2016, in New Mexico. The locations used for Logan were mainly in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi.

Logan premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 3, 2017, in IMAX and standard formats. The film received critical acclaim, with much praise for its screenplay, direction, acting (particularly that of Jackman, Stewart, and Keen), action sequences, emotional depth, and departure from traditional superhero films. It became the best-reviewed film in the X-Men franchise, with many critics regarding it as one of the greatest superhero films ever made, and it was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2017. It was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards, becoming the first live-action superhero film ever to be nominated for screenwriting. It grossed over $619 million worldwide and became the third-highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.

Plot

In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing. Working as a limo driver in El Paso, Texas, under his birth name James Howlett, he and mutant tracker Caliban care for 90-year-old Charles Xavier, Logan’s mentor and founder of the X-Men, in an abandoned smelting plant in northern Mexico. Xavier has developed dementia that causes him to have destructive seizures; it is alluded that one year prior, one such seizure released a powerful wave of telepathy that injured over six hundred people and killed seven people, including several X-Men.

Logan reluctantly agrees to escort Gabriela Lopez, a former nurse for biotechnology corporation Alkali-Transigen, and a young girl called Laura to Eden, a refuge “up north” across the border. Later finding Gabriela dead, Logan is confronted at his Mexican hideout by her killer Donald Pierce, who is Transigen’s cyborg chief of security. Pierce is looking for Laura, who has stowed away in Logan’s limo and has powers similar to his. She, Logan, and Xavier escape Pierce and his Reavers, but Caliban is tortured into tracking Laura.

A video on Gabriela’s cellphone shows that Transigen created Laura and other children from mutant DNA to become weapons; Laura was created from Logan’s DNA. As they proved difficult to control and Transigen found an alternative, the children were to be killed, but Gabriela and other nurses helped some escape. In Oklahoma City, Logan discovers that Eden appears in Laura’s X-Men comic and tells her it is fictional. The Reavers arrive, but Xavier has a seizure which incapacitates everyone except Logan and Laura, who kill the attackers and inject Xavier with his medication. As they flee, Dr. Zander Rice (the head of Transigen) arrives to help Pierce.

Logan, Laura, and Xavier help farmer Will Munson and his family after a traffic incident, accepting an offer of dinner at their home, where Logan drives off enforcers from a corporate farm. Rice unleashes X-24, a clone of Logan in his prime and his alternative to the child program, who murders Will’s family and Xavier, stabbing Will and capturing Laura. He also kills the enforcers, who mistake him as Logan and try to kill him. Caliban sets off grenades, killing himself and several Reavers, but only injuring Pierce. Logan is outmatched by X-24, but Will pins X-24 with his truck and shoots him three times with a shotgun before dying from his injuries. Logan and Laura escape with Xavier’s body.

After burying Xavier, Logan passes out. Laura takes him to a doctor and persuades him to prove that the site in North Dakota is not Eden. There, they find Rictor and other Transigen children preparing to cross into Canada. Laura finds an adamantium bullet that Logan has kept since his escape from the Weapon X facility, which he once considered using to commit suicide. Logan decides that his job is done and chooses not to accompany them, to Laura’s dismay.

When the Reavers ambush the children, Logan takes an overdose of a serum given to him by Rictor that temporarily enhances his healing abilities and boosts his strength. With Laura’s help, he slaughters most of the Reavers before the serum wears off. As Pierce holds Rictor at gunpoint Rice tells Logan, who killed Rice’s father years ago at the Weapon X facility, that no new mutants have been born due to genetically engineered crops created by Transigen and distributed through the world’s food supply. Logan, having found a gun, shoots Rice and injures Pierce. X-24, enraged by Rice’s death, fights Logan as the children combine their powers to kill Pierce and the remaining Reavers. Rictor uses his powers to flip a truck onto X-24, but he frees himself and impales Logan on a large tree branch. Laura loads Logan’s revolver with the adamantium bullet and shoots X-24 in the head, killing him.

Near death, Logan tells Laura not to become the weapon that she was made to be, and after she tearfully acknowledges him as her father, he dies peacefully in her arms. Laura and the children bury Logan, and Laura tilts the cross on his grave marker to create an X, honoring him as the last of the X-Men, before she and the children depart for the Canadian border.

Cast

Portraying the character for 17 years in nine films earned Jackman the Guinness World Record of the “longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero”.
Hugh Jackman as Logan:
The X-Man formerly known as the Wolverine and a physically-enhanced mutant with accelerated healing, as well as Charles Xavier’s former pupil and Laura’s biological father, dealing with his age and ailment. He is one of Charles Xavier’s caregivers, alongside Caliban. Mangold spoke of Logan’s age influencing his regenerative capabilities, which he stated may no longer produce soft skin, “so we imagined he heals quickly, still, but it leaves a scar. The simple idea was that his body would start to get a little more ravaged with a kind of tattooing of past battles, lacerations that remain of previous conflicts.” On the second page of the screenplay, Mangold spoke of Logan as “… he’s older now and it’s clear his abilities aren’t what they once were. He’s fading on the inside and his diminished healing factor keeps him in a constant state of chronic pain—hence booze as a painkiller.” In 2015, Jackman requested fan input for the direction Wolverine’s story should go in the next film, while seeming to confirm that the project would serve as his farewell to Logan. To prepare for his role, Jackman ate a minimum of six meals per day, when working with trainer Mike Ryan.Ryan stated that an average workout session for Jackman lasts up to three hours, beginning at 4:00 a.m. Jackman stated, “… it’s going to be very different. Very different in tone and hopefully different to anything we’ve done.” Regarding the more personal tone Jackman noted “That’s always been really his dilemma, coming to terms with who he is”. Jackman has also explained that comedian Jerry Seinfeld was indirectly responsible for his decision to stop playing Logan after 17 years, with Jackman stating, “I was having a chat with [Seinfeld] about a year ago … he was talking about why he finished Seinfeld … He said he’d always had this feeling and belief that you never know when either your energy or the audience’s energy is going to dip over into people [saying] ‘Oh, please go.'” Jackman accepted a pay reduction to ensure that the film would be produced to receive an R-rating.
Jackman also plays X-24, a feral younger clone of Wolverine, loyal only to his creator Zander Rice.
Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier:
A mutant who is the world’s most powerful telepath, who is also founder and former leader of the now-defunct X-Men. He was formerly known as Professor X. Charles’s telepathic abilities have become unstable due to age (over 90 years) and an unknown brain disease, and at times he does not even recognize Logan. During the events of Logan, Xavier is cared for by Logan and Caliban. Regarding Xavier and the themes of aging and loneliness, Mangold said, “We’ve seen these characters in action, saving the universe. But what happens when you’re in retirement and that career is over? … The really interesting thing to me, or a place to dig that hadn’t been dug, was the idea of mutants when they’re no longer useful to the world, or even sure if they can do what they used to do. Their powers are diminished like all of ours are by age … Our Charles is a very sweet character in this film. I think he’s always been an incredibly sweet character. With the addition of his own physical fragility in this movie, he becomes an incredibly powerful paternal figure in the movie. Logan is more of a reluctant one, I think you can easily guess.” Stewart remarked that “… this is probably the end of this franchise for me. But the thing about science fiction and fantasy is that you can never, ever say it’s the end, it’s over.”
Richard E. Grant as Dr. Zander Rice:
The surgical head of Transigen, whose father was killed by Logan during his escape from Weapon X Headquarters at Alkali Lake. On the character of Rice, Mangold stated, “He’s the puppet master behind Pierce and the Reavers, and has a much larger role in the sense that he’s actually the kind of brilliant mind that is trying to grow mutants.”
Boyd Holbrook as Donald Pierce:
Transigen’s relentless, calculating, and intense head of security and leader of the militant Reavers,who is sent to retrieve Laura, which brings him into conflict with Wolverine. Holbrook said of the character, “He’s an innovative engineer and he’s a big fan of Wolverine. He just wants to hang out with him … There’s a lot of surprising stuff in it.” Mangold praised Holbrook’s performance, saying that “[he] is just a fabulous actor. I wanted this film to feel intimate and real and truthfully acted, and I wanted very much to break away from the kind of bloated feeling I’ve gotten from a lot of comic-book movies.”
Stephen Merchant as Caliban:
An albino mutant who can sense and track other mutants, who is helping Logan take care of Xavier. On Merchant taking the role, Mangold mentioned, “I’m always interested to find the thing that looks most interesting on the actors. Stephen is a huge man. One of the things that is so wonderful filming with him for a character like this is that he’s a good six inches taller than Logan, and huge over Patrick. The little kid in the movie would come up to basically his knee. So there’s a wonderful sense of scale—but he has heart too.” Mangold concluded by stating, “… So that was a wonderful energy to enter the movie, and someone who instead of turning things into their own energy kind of joined ours.” A younger Caliban was previously portrayed by Tómas Lemarquis in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Dafne Keen as Laura:
A mysterious young girl, who is “very much” like Logan as well as Logan’s biological daughter. She is also subject “X-23”. On Keen’s portrayal of Laura, Mangold mentioned, “If anyone could steal a movie from [Jackman], it would be Dafne. She carries, all the time, a slight strangeness.” In an interview with Digital Spy, Mangold stated, “… [Keen] was 11 years old when we were shooting. She’s a remarkable kid. Her parents are actors, and she’s kind of a very modern kid. Very physically capable. Incredibly gifted as an actress. I mean, it was a huge risk for Fox to allow me to make a movie where the third point of the triangle was built upon someone so young.” Mangold stated that the worldwide search for an actress to portray Laura was one in which he was seeking “someone who was bilingual because I wanted a Latina kid—one who was between 10 and 12, and was a credible child.” He later stated of Laura that: “She’s an 11-year-old girl equipped with all the volatility, instability, mood swings, shadows and potential violence of our hero.” Co-writer Scott Frank pushed for the character to speak as little as possible when he joined the project to avoid making her into a typical kid sidekick, explaining, “I read a few other drafts of the script that Jim worked on, and in all those drafts she was talking from the beginning and had an attitude. I thought that was a giant mistake.” Sienna Novikov served as Keen’s stunt double.
Additionally, Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal, and Elizabeth Rodriguez appear as Will Munson, Kathryn Munson, and Gabriela Lopez. Doris Morgado, David Kallaway, Han Soto, Jason Genao, Krzysztof Soszynski, and Alison Fernandez appear as Maria, Danny Rhodes, Valet, Rictor, Mohawk, and Delilah, respectively. In the commentary to X-Men: Apocalypse, director Bryan Singer had stated that his film’s post-credits scene would directly connect with the on-screen debut of X-Men antagonist Mister Sinister in Logan.In January 2017, Mangold stated that the character would not appear in this film. However, the DNA from several mutants, including Logan, in that film was used to create the clones that are seen in this film.