Everything You Might Have Missed in The Final Logan Trailer

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Brutal, bruising, and brooding, the last trailer for Logan, Hugh Jackman's swansong as Wolverine, certainly packs a punch but what about those moments between the blows that you might have missed.  

Right from the first moments, we’re getting more details than the previous Johnny Cash tinged trailer had to show us. As the trailer kicks off, we’re in a gas station which seems to contradict the ‘post-apocalyptic’ setting that we had been promised but, being an X-Men movie, the line has always been ‘in the near future’. 

Director James Mangold has stated that the actual date for the movie is 2029. Speaking about the reasons behind the jump in time, he told Comicbook.com  

"There's an epilogue scene in Days of Future Past which is 2024, or 2023, something like that. I just wanted to get far enough past. My goal was real simple: it was to pick a time where I had enough elbow room that I was clear of existing entanglements. Part of the way I think this films stop being fresh (these films being franchise comic book movies) is when you find yourself making essentially a television series with $200 million episodes where you're literally just picking up where the last one left off and you're making a mini-series. Then, it's impossible to do something fresh, meaning essentially you're just a director on the 14th episode of a television show picking up where the last one left off and people are going to be really startled by any discontinuity or changes."

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So while we aren’t getting the same setting as the Old Man Logan comic series, a few details survived the adaptation process. 

Then there’s the girl, X-23, played by Laura Kinney,  who’s also called Laura in the comics. Taken from the comics lore, X-23 is a female clone of Wolverine created by the sinister Weapon X program. The plan was to create a Wolverine of their own and train it to kill to their agenda from day one. However, more female chromosomes survived than male and, 22 attempts later, X-23 was created. As for her personality, well, as several moments in the trailer show, she has trouble processing human emotions – hence the need for Wolverine to step in and save the life of the cashier. You’ll also note the scar on his face suggesting that his mutant healing powers are not what they used to be.  You might also have spotted the Texas flags on the counter, which feels more in keeping with the road trip aspect of Old Man Logan. 

Speaking of Wolverine, this greying incarnation seems to have come from the happier timeline from X-Men: Days of Future Past – hence the lack of sentinels trying to wipe out our heroes. Whatever time period we may be in, the X-Men are in fact history. (Although Professor X is still around but for just how long that is remains to be seen). 

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However, they aren’t forgotten. X-23’s comic book collection contains a colourful ode to their past adventures – and one that Wolverine dismisses. Is it an actual X-Men comic? No, it looks as though it was made specifically for the film and it features the image of Sauron which hints at a Savage Land story that we’ve been cruelly denied. 

Then there’s Donald Pierce, played by Boyd Holbrook,  who, along with The Reavers by his side, wants X-23 for his own devious ends. In the comic books, Pierce is usually a cyborg and in Logan he appears to have a cybernetic arm, so maybe he has other robotic components hidden under his jacket. Also, we’d put money on there being a greater power behind him, although director James Mangold has denied that it will be Mr Sinister despite it being suggested by the post-credit sequence of X-Men: Apocalypse. 

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Next we’re shown some pretty awesome fight scenes involving Wolverine and X-23 (who, you’ll note, as two claws rather than the three sported by Wolverine which all but confirms the presence of the Weapon X program – it’s not as though there’s just adamantium lying around. 

Speaking of Wolverine fighting, it seems the vow of non-violence in Old Man Logan is pretty much gone but it seems to suggest that Wolverine has been living in semi-retirement caring for an aging Professor X, played by Patrick Stewart, before all hell breaks loose. Which bodes well for a potential R Rating! Because this isn’t pacifism! 

Whatever happens, Logan certainly looks awesome and we can’t wait until it hits screens in March. 

Logan
The movie tells the story of Logan/Wolverine, a mutant whose prodigious healing abilities and adamantium infused skel...
Release Dates
23 May 2017-DVD
3 Mar 2017-Cinema
23 May 2017-VOD
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