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What Hollywood Should Learn From Logan’s R Rating
What Hollywood Should Learn From Logan’s R Rating
What Hollywood Should Learn From Logan’s R Rating
When Logan arrives on Blu-ray next week, it will include one of the better bonus features in recent home entertainment history: A black and white cut of the film called Logan Noir, which made its premiere last night at a special screening at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse. The Noir cut looks great, but the real story coming out of last night’s event wasn’t the new version, it was a comment made by director James Mangold during the post-screening Q&A.
Watch ‘Logan’ Star Dafne Keen’s Impressive X-23 Audition
Watch ‘Logan’ Star Dafne Keen’s Impressive X-23 Audition
Watch ‘Logan’ Star Dafne Keen’s Impressive X-23 Audition
The role of young mutant Laura (aka X-23) in Logan is a demanding one, to say the least, and it’s not surprising that finding the perfect actor for the part was equally challenging for director James Mangold. He needed to find a 12-year-old actress with acrobatic and martial-arts skills who could speak English and Spanish, and, perhaps most important of all, hold her own opposite Hugh Jackman. That’s a pretty specific list of requirements, but Dafne Keen fit the bill (and then some), and now you can watch one of the incredibly impressive (and profanity-laden, FYI) audition tapes that led to her breakout role.
Wolverine Talks Sabertooth in This ‘Logan’ Deleted Scene
Wolverine Talks Sabertooth in This ‘Logan’ Deleted Scene
Wolverine Talks Sabertooth in This ‘Logan’ Deleted Scene
Fans of Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine movie are about to have a pretty big month: not only does Logan return to theaters in a special black-and-white format on Tuesday, May 16, but the movie will be available on VOD that same date and on Blu-ray/DVD on May 23. A home video release, of course, means deleted scenes, and deleted scenes often have a habit of showing up online in the few weeks before the physical copy is released. And gosh, wouldn’t you know? A doozy of a deleted scene is now available for your viewing pleasure.
How to See ‘Logan’ on the Big Screen in Black and White
How to See ‘Logan’ on the Big Screen in Black and White
How to See ‘Logan’ on the Big Screen in Black and White
Black-and-white re-edits of crowd-pleasing action blockbusters — so hot right now. George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road exploded heads across the globe upon release in 2015, and though the oversaturated coloration gave the film its distinctive post-apocalyptic look, rumors that Miller had planned a monochromatic cut of the film compelled fans to demand just that. The so-called ‘Black and Chrome’ edit drained all the color from the film, leaving something sparser and bleaker. And now Logan will be the latest to undergo a similar process, rendering a gritty and tough superhero picture as something even grittier and tougher. [Spits out mouthful of nails.]
Black and White Cut of ‘Logan’ Coming to Theaters in May
Black and White Cut of ‘Logan’ Coming to Theaters in May
Black and White Cut of ‘Logan’ Coming to Theaters in May
For those of you who, like me, were totally enamored with the official Logan Instagram account’s eschewal of color for most of the movie’s production schedule, you probably missed that retro simplicity a little in the actual movie. If you’d like to see a black and white cut of Hugh Jackman’s last turn as Wolverine, good news: That’s exactly what James Mangold is going to give us.
Cops Are on the Edge in James Mangold’s ‘Logan’ Follow-Up
Cops Are on the Edge in James Mangold’s ‘Logan’ Follow-Up
Cops Are on the Edge in James Mangold’s ‘Logan’ Follow-Up
As is Hollywood custom, the successful blockbuster director has now handpicked his next high-profile gig from a windfall of hot-property scripts piling up on his desk. James Mangold has been having a pretty great month as the director of the kindly-reviewed, highly lucrative Logan, and now he’s parleyed that big win into his next directorial gig. He’ll leave the superhero world for his follow-up feature, but the new premise will still afford him plenty of opportunity for the grim, terse scripting and shocking bursts of violence that have already earned Logan a wide following. And this time, Mangold’s a loose cannon, on the edge, and not playing by the rules.
Here’s Why Caliban Was in ‘Logan’ and ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
Here’s Why Caliban Was in ‘Logan’ and ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
Here’s Why Caliban Was in ‘Logan’ and ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
Fans of X-Men who saw the latest two movies — Logan and last summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse — probably noticed something kinda weird about one recurring character. Despite offering no continuity or explanation as to why it happened this way, the mutant Caliban showed up in both, in Logan played by Stephen Merchant, and in Apocalypse by Thomas Lemarquis. Despite a bit of an accent on Lemarquis’ part, they both looked mostly the same: albino, weird eyes, bald. There was just a weird lack of continuity, and James Mangold recently explained why.
James Mangold Cut a ‘Powerful’ Jean Grey Scene from ‘Logan’
James Mangold Cut a ‘Powerful’ Jean Grey Scene from ‘Logan’
James Mangold Cut a ‘Powerful’ Jean Grey Scene from ‘Logan’
When you learn about writing, there’s one mantra that you’ll hear over and over: Kill your darlings. Sometimes, the only way to make a scene in a book or a paragraph in an article work best is to take out the part of it you love the most, just because hanging onto it isn’t worth the clunkiness it creates. The same is true for film, and oftentimes directors will have to take out really great scenes because they don’t work with the flow of the rest of the movie. Logan is pretty seamlessly put together, but even James Mangold ran into that problem once or twice. He revealed that there was a tribute to Wolverine’s fellow X-Man Jean Grey in the middle of the movie that he had to cut for story reasons. [Some SPOILERS follow for Logan, so if you haven’t seen it yet, run far away.
‘Logan’s Ending Had Been Foreshadowed in ‘The Wolverine’
‘Logan’s Ending Had Been Foreshadowed in ‘The Wolverine’
‘Logan’s Ending Had Been Foreshadowed in ‘The Wolverine’
Logan is the conclusion Hugh-Jackman-as-Wolverine’s story deserves, and it’s one that fans of the character have been waiting for for quite a while. The other two solo Wolverine movies weren’t exactly well-received, although one could make an argument for the quality of 2013’s The Wolverine — you know, the one where he goes to Japan. As it turns out, the emotional, heartwrenching ending of Logan had been planned out ever since one key scene in The Wolverine. [The rest of this post contains SPOILERS for Logan — as in, I am going to tell you the ending. So if you haven’t seen it and don’t want to know, do not keep reading.]

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