Logan | Wolverine 3 News

bralinator

++POTENTIAL SPOILERS++

There has not been much buzz for the film to this point and with W3 being just under 5 months away from hitting theaters, it's interesting to see FOX Studios taking another risk this time. Marketing-wise, a movie with Wolverine ensures the audience knows what the film is about, but Logan is a just a name. When paired with the adamantium claws, audiences will be able to figure it out, but the Wolverine name would carry more weight.

The movie is set in the future, so he may not have heard that name for some time. This story is loosely based in part on Mark Millar’s Old Man Logan miniseries. It was recently confirmed that Mister Sinister will be the main villain which suggest the inclusion of X-23, along with seeing the little hand in the poster.

Here's page 2 of the script, put out by the director. Appears to be pretty violent.

And if it's violence you want, this film will have it. Here's a set pic from the movie's Instagram account (@wponx).

bralinator

The first trailer has arrived:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div0iP65aZo

Johnny Cash singing NIN's "Hurt" is a nice touch.

bralinator

Kudos to Fox for really making Deadpool and now Logan which is something I suppose we should be thankful that Disney didn't have these licenses because I doubt either would ever have been made otherwise. Maybe as Netflix shows, but doubtful.

aquatroy

I enjoyed that trailer. Thanks for posting.
I'm surprised Xavier is still alive. I wonder if he hasn't "downloaded" his self into Logan's mind?

bralinator

Good question. I need to re-read Old Man Logan, although with most films these days, the source material is near superfluous to the film.

bralinator

James Mangold said the following in a recent Empire interview:

Hugh and I have been talking about what we would do since we were working on the last one, and for both of us it was this requirement that, to be even interested in doing it, we had to free ourselves from some assumptions that had existed in the past, and be able to change the tone a bit. Not merely to change for change’s sake, but also to make something that’s speaking to the culture now, that’s not just the same style — how many times can they save the world in one way or another? How can we construct a story that’s built more on character and character issues, in a way as if it almost wasn’t a superhero movie, yet it features their powers and struggles and themes?

We are in the future, we have passed the point of the epilogue of Days Of Future Past. We’re finding all these characters in circumstances that are a little more real. The questions of aging, 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?

One of the things we all thought about as we worked on this film is, well, we don’t want to rebuild everything. We want to have some questions. In order to make a different Logan, and a different tone of a Wolverine movie, we felt like we couldn’t hold on to every tradition established in all the movies religiously, or we’d be trapped by the decisions made before us. So we questioned whether Logan’s healing factor causes him to heal without even a scar. We imagined that it may have when he was younger, but with age, he’s getting older and ailing. Perhaps his healing factor no longer produces baby-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.

I'm very hopeful that this will outshine previous Wolverine films.

abstractgeek

Thats a pretty low bar, and i LIKED The Wolverine...

bralinator

abstractgeek said:

Thats a pretty low bar, and i LIKED The Wolverine...

I agree.

bralinator

Here's the red-band trailer. Only difference I see is at the near 1:30 mark. Pretty intense shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1aSAQ1CibQ

Mr_Cosmic

When I heard that there would be another Wolvie movie I wasn't excited but the trailer looks good. I've always enjoyed stories where Logan is on his own vs being part of the X-Men team. Also, Old Man Logan was one of the best stories featuring the character I've ever read and they seem to be touching on the same themes if not directly taking from certain parts of the story.

bralinator

aquatroy

bralinator said:

Somewhere, my daughter is grunting her approval.

bralinator

Hugh Jackman released the official synopsis for the film on his Twitter feed today.



Coming March 3 (7 weeks)

bralinator

New trailer dropped today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH3OxVFvTeg

I am liking the tone of what I've seen so far.

Matt

Red Band. Holy Fuck!

https://youtu.be/VHilK6b0Trs

bralinator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unciPjkH-O4

DAR

https://twitter.com/johncampea/status/832359549856276480

DAR

I'm on a member on a box office forum and one of the members got to see the movie. Word is, it's very good

bralinator

I look forward to it. I think it has the possibility to be the best X-Men movie in the franchise so far.

DAR

Very promising start

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/logan_2017

I've seen a few comparisons to Hell or High Water which was an outstanding movie.

Mr_Cosmic

No "seen it" thread yet so I'll just say it was very very good. It is right up there at the top for best superhero movie..I'll have to digest it a bit more before I can say whether it surpasses Winter Soldier.

DAR

Terrific opening weekend for it, estimates coming in at 85 million

PSUrivie

Saw Logon on Friday. I'm throwing it out there....it's the #1 superhero movie made yet. Name any other movie in the Superhero genre and I'll say Logan beats it. I loved the references to the first X-men movie and it had enough of the "Old Man Logan" vibe from the source material.

DAR

Actually it did even better

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

bralinator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPXb7cMSnkY