'Logan' director James Mangold discussed the movie's ins and outs during a QuarantineWatchParty, offering the inside scoop on Wolverine's bloody last ride
Mangold said that the day he and co-writer Scott Frank solved the story of the movie was the day they came up with the idea to have X-Men comics exist in the world of the movie as exaggerated stories that Logan hated.
He said, “In a way, this idea encapsulates my love /hate relationship with ‘super hero’ films. I love the mythic values of them. They're morality tales of a modern age. But I hate they often reaffirm an idea that God will save us. That we as mortals bear no responsibility for our lives.”, “I tried to make a film that put us in the shoes of Gods. Frail Gods. So we could feel their disappointment in us. And also their exhaustion. The movie is, for me, undeniably political. About an age when we hide in consumerism, distracted in fantasy, as our real world burns.”, Mangold revealed a comics accurate, brown and yellow Wolverine outfit. When asked if he’d ever considered using the costume in Logan, and if Jackman had ever done fittings for it, the director responded, “He never put it on. We never even made a version of the outfit. Everything about his character as I understand it, would keep him from donning a self- promoting ‘uniform.’ I'm sure the next incarnation of the Wolverine will go there.”Mangold addressed the decision to have Laura kill X-24 rather than having Logan have a rematch against his clone in a lengthy battle. “I wanted the Logan that felt love to be essentially weaker than the version who did not feel anything. Also, I wanted his daughter to have the final word as the world was her's now. Logan was essentially trying to kill his own past in the end, the dark legacy of Weapon X and all the pain he had caused when he was a killing machine. I felt it had to be the best of himself that crushed this demon. And the best of himself was in the form of his daughter.” Mangold followed that by saying, “In the end, I felt that the greatest tribute we could offer this great character created by this great actor was to allow him to leave this world after 200+ years of pain in a moment of love and tenderness." The next morning, Jackman responded in kind,
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