Hugh Jackman’s run as Wolverine is over, and it recently ended when “Logan” hit theaters. Luckily Jackman went out on a high note, as the general consensus among fans and critics seems to be that the film delivered.
One of the big plot points of the film had to do with Professor X accidentally killing the X-Men and the incident was referenced several times throughout the film. It turns out that the death of the X-Men was almost included in the film, and director James Mangold recently told IGN that at one point it was the opening scene.
“I literally had written an opening which started with that sequence, and so it was quite literal, who was dead,” Mangold said. “But the reason we didn’t do it wasn’t to spare other films, it was that it redefined the movie. It made the movie about the X-Men, instead of being about Logan and Charles. And irrevocably, when you read the script opening that way, it became about this other tragedy, as opposed to that tragedy being something hovering like a shadow in the background for these characters.”
“Logan” is out now on Digital HD.
In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) at a remote outpost on the Mexican border. His plan to hide from the outside world gets upended when he meets a young mutant (Dafne Keen) who is very much like him. Logan must now protect the girl and battle the dark forces that want to capture her.
