'Logan' Director Gives Details on the Film's Timeline
With the first trailer out for Logan, Hugh Jackman's final Wolverine role, director James Mangold has spilled some more details, and is adamant that when he and Jackman came together, they knew they had to change the formula a little 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?”
The film is set in the future, Mangold reveals, and it's a very different future.
“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 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?
"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."
They've opted to show that the endless healing can still leave scars, which links right up with the themes of ageing and mortality in the film, it seems.
The film opens March 3, 2017.
Source: Collider
