Logan

LOGAN                                          
         

Directed by James Mangold

Produced by

Hutch Parker

Simon Kinberg

Lauren Shuler Donner

Screenplay by

Scott Frank

James Mangold

Michael Green

Story by James Mangold

Based on

Wolverine

by Roy Thomas

Len Wein

John Romita, Sr.

Old Man Logan

by Mark Millar

Steve McNiven

Starring

Hugh Jackman

Patrick Stewart

Richard E. Grant

Boyd Holbrook

Stephen Merchant

Dafne Keen

Music by Marco Beltrami

Cinematography John Mathieson

Edited by Michael McCusker

Production

company

Marvel Entertainment

Kinberg Genre

Hutch Parker Entertainment

The Donners' Company

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release date

February 17, 2017 (Berlin)[1]

March 3, 2017 (United States)

Running time

137 minutes[2]

Country United States

Language English

Budget $127 million[3][4]

Box office $2.7 million[5]

Logan is a 2017 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, is the tenth installment in the X-Men film series, as well as the third and final Wolverine film following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). It is directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Frank and Michael Green from a story by Mangold, and also stars Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant and Dafne Keen. The film follows a past-his-prime Logan undertaking a final adventure in a dystopian future.

Development of Logan began in November 2013 with the hiring of Mangold to write a treatment that takes inspiration from the comic book Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. In March 2014, Jackman signed on to star as Logan in what is intended to be his final portrayal of the character after having played the role for 17 years. That same month, Fox set a release date and officially brought Mangold onboard to direct. Green took over writing duties in April 2015 and by the following April, most of the supporting roles had been cast. Principal photography began in New Orleans on May 2, 2016, and moved to Natchez, Mississippi, before ending on August 19, 2016, in New Mexico.

Logan premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17, 2017 and was released in the United States on March 3, 2017, in standard and IMAX formats.

Plot

In the year 2029, Logan, who has aged greatly because his healing factor has begun to falter, spends his days working as a chauffeur and hustling for prescription drugs in Texas. He and Caliban live in an abandoned smelting plant across the border in Mexico, where they care for a senile Charles Xavier, who had inadvertently killed several of his X-Men in a seizure-induced psychic attack one year earlier.

Logan is approached by Gabriela, a nurse for Transigen who asks him to escort her and an 11-year-old girl named Laura to a place in North Dakota called "Eden". After reluctantly accepting the job, Logan discovers that Gabriela has been murdered and he, Xavier, and Laura narrowly escape from Donald Pierce and the Reavers while Caliban is captured and ordered to use his mutant powers to track them. Logan and Xavier learn through a video on Gabriela's phone that Transigen was breeding children with DNA samples from several mutants, but upon completion of the "X-24" project, the children were to be put to death. Gabriela helped several children escape from the Transigen compound before smuggling Laura across the border. Furthermore, Laura is revealed to be Logan's "daughter", as she was bred with his DNA.

While staying in Oklahoma City, Logan develops skepticism over the location of Eden, as he discovers it being referenced in an X-Men comic book that Laura brought with her. The Reavers find their whereabouts, but Xavier suffers another seizure and freezes everyone at the hotel with a psychic blast. Logan injects Xavier with a suppressant before they leave the city.

The trio are given shelter by a family after helping them round up their horses during a highway incident. That night, Xavier and the