Logan Director Wants To Make X-Men Spinoff About X-23

The success of the Rated-R smash-hit Deadpool caused concern about the future state superhero movies. Their track record is uncanny. Emotional gut punches, risky filmmaking choices, and attractive performances from Jackman, Stewart, and Keen make Logan an absolute must see movie for anyone who can handle it.

I wasn’t sure I’d like this film because, like many, I developed Wolverine fatigue and wasn’t particularly impressed by the previous solo films.

With reports that, it’s clear has taken great pains to differentiate itself from the rest of the X-men universe, and critics are lapping it up.

Yet, the work that Bryan Singer has done is equally praiseworthy (amidst constraints) and frustrating (due to his own choices) to be kind. The concerns were plenty. To that end, Logan is a success. Someone will need to ask Hugh Jackman in a few years.

He’s the much loved Australian actor and global superstar, thanks to his turn as Wolverine in the Marvel X-Men franchise.

The setting is the not-so distant 2029. From the very first shot to the very last, every frame feels perfectly rendered and absolutely necessary to the narrative trajectory.

In the film, Wolverine (Jackman) is caring for an ailing Professor X (Sir Patrick Stewart) near the Mexican border when a young girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) shows up with powers that are eerily similar to the clawed mutant.

Right now, all we can do is speculate, but this news is definitely exciting. Similarly, Sin City is a comic adaptation that spills stylish CG-blood all over the place. He lives in seclusion with Caliban (Stephen Merchant), an albino mutant who fries in direct sunlight like a vampire. Laura, on the other hand, is a complete mute who can kill with little more than a flick of the wrist.

As for his movie “Logan“, they are already in the finishing phase. They tolerate each other without any objective to live.

Logan – or Wolverine – and Professor X are living in hiding when Lisa surfaces, having escaped her creator-captors with the help of a nurse from the clinic. The X-Men have descended into myth, and what remains is a world where two of the most powerful mutants are just scraping by to survive. “I wanted to make a movie that someone who has never seen a comic book movie could get something out of”. Sometimes in the real world, not everything has an explanation, and that’s what happens in Logan. “It’s much more comfortable with the former than the latter”. X-23, also known as Laura Kinney, claws her way into both the audience’s and her enemies’ hearts.

But they’re equally terrifying – no question.

While there’s no shortage of action, Logan is free of the usual superhero trappings, working well as an exploration of age and mortality.

This isn’t Mangold’s first gritty rodeo though.

That’s probably not the quote word for word, but as Donald Pierce (head of security for a research facility up to no good and a southern drawl speaking cyborg leader played by Boyd Holbrook of Narcos rising fame) and his army of mercenaries physically have their way with Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman reprising the role possibly for one last rodeo) beating the crap out of him, robot arm included, the feeling is mutual.

I can assure you that couldn’t be further from the truth. Since it takes place in parts of Texas and Mexico, it makes sense that Latinx characters like Elizabeth Rodriguez’s Gabriella are naturally weaved into the story.

From left, actors Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman, actress Dafne Keen and director James Mangold pose on the red carpet.

“There is not a frame of this film where I can’t say I didn’t put everything into it”, Hugh added.

But if you’re just going for the action and the performances, you’ll more than get your money’ worth. The film even cleverly brings in actual X-Men comics, which Logan amusingly disdains. Logan is not Deadpool, Logan is deadly serious. The MCU should take note. That is what makes the film so remarkable.

Great characters or actors can not carry a film by themselves, as evidenced by what Warner Bros. has been doing with their live-action DC Extended Universe films.

The strength of Wolverine is more his humanity than his superpower.