Director James Mangold on Crafting a Superhero Film with a Gritty, Adult Edge
Logan is set to open big, with the second trailer hyping fans up even more to the possibility that this might not just be a good Wolverine film, but a great superhero film too. James Mangold spoke with Slashfilm, and called the process an exciting and inspiring one.
"Well, it was exciting. What was inspiring, and what we really set out to do more than anything about specific ratings, was just to make an adult film. For me, the rating and the violence level was part of it. But also just raising the maturity level of the film. You know, a lot of these films are essentially made for both 12-year-olds and 20-year-olds, and I thought it would be interesting, even if we got less money to do it, to make one of these films, a comic book film, essentially, that’s for adults."
On the genre of the film, which seems to be steering toward western, Mangold doesn't believe there are limits to where a superhero film can go. "
Comic book movies don’t have an identity. There’s many kinds. There’s Avengers, there’s movies like Guardians, there’s movies like Deadpool, there’s movies as somber as the Dark Knight series. The word “comic book movie” doesn’t define the movie.
"It’s up to us to bring a kind of genre and a sense of tone. I think that’s what, hopefully, makes Logan original, is that we’ve staked out a new tone, and something you haven’t seen."
Logan opens on March 3, 2017.
Source: Slashfilm
