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The first trailer for Logan gave us a very different look at the X-Men universe and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. The influences from Old Man Logan are very real, peeling away that all-star future from the comics for something that seems a little more reserved and a little more personal. In the latest issue of Empire, director James Mangold went through the trailer and explained some of his decisions and how Logan will fit in with the other Jackman films that have preceded it.
If you’re looking for firm connections within the X-Men films, the time has come to realize that it doesn’t really matter for them as much as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They have that thin connection, but in the end, it’s going to be a singular experience from film to film. Logan will be no different:
“We are in the future, we have passed the point of the epilogue of Days Of Future Past,” is all that Mangold will admit about the timing of this film…
“We’re finding all these characters in circumstances that are a little more real. The questions of ageing, of loneliness, of where I belong. Am I still useful to the world? I saw it as an opportunity. 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.”
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In the source material Logan is tricked into killing all the X-Men
Also Inbred Hick Hulks.
It does seem to make Days of Future Past overwhelmingly pointless if they all end up dead in a shit world after all that.
I am someone who is always down for Dark and Gritty™ and actively encourages it, but this looks bad. More bad X-Men movies. The only superhero movies I haven’t seen on opening day in the past couple of years are X-Men: Apocalypse and Fantastic Four, so clearly Fox is just crushing it.
The trailer had a very The Last of Us vibe, which would kinda fit into Mangold’s overall tone of things.
“Obviously I have a connection and a fondness for Johnny Cash, and his tone and his message and his music.”
Can we please stop pretending that Johnny Cash wrote “Hurt”?
Exactly. Like its a great version but please acknowledge that it is a cover.
Eh, I both agree and disagree. Sure, Reznor wrote it, but even he’s admitted that the song is no longer his. Filtering the song through Cash’s life and that backing music gives the song a *completely* different meaning that resonates at a more universal level than anything in the original. There’s a reason tons of groups list Cash’s cover as one of the best songs so far this millenium.
I’m sure Reznor is honored to have someone that iconic cover a song of his, and yea, he certainly made it his own. It’s any artists goal to put their own stamp on a song they choose to cover, and Cash obviously pulls it off. I think its the level of credit Cash gets for this tune and the lack of credit NIN that gets my goat. It’s not like he took an okay song and made it great. He took a really great song and did a good job with it. I dunno, I’m curmudgeon. If Trent don’t give a care I guess neither should I
This was supposed to be a reply to the comment above this. BOY AM I A BLOCKHEAD! lolz