FILM · 2017 · USA
Logan
- Directed by
- James Mangold
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Studio
- Hutch Parker Entertainment, The Donners' Company, Genre Films
17 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
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All facts (17)
- #001
When Charles Xavier has a seizure, Hugh Jackman did not simply act as if he were being pushed. Instead, he was held back by a rope pulled by two men to give a more realistic depiction of being restrained.
- #002
Sir Patrick Stewart lost twenty-one kilos to play Charles Xavier as old and ill. Stewart claimed he had maintained a steady weight since his youth and had never deliberately lost weight before. Hugh Jackman genuinely carried Stewart in all the scenes where Wolverine carries Professor Xavier.
- #003
Hugh Jackman said this was the hardest Wolverine film he had ever trained for.
- #004
(About 55 minutes) While Laura and Charles watch Shane (1953), Charles mentions that he remembers seeing the film in his hometown as a child. This was entirely improvised by Sir Patrick Stewart, because Shane was one of his first childhood memories in a theatre. James Mangold says George Stevens's Shane is "a masterpiece of golden age American film-making."
- #005
Dafne Keen, who auditioned for the role of Laura, asked director James Mangold whether she could improvise her lines. After Hugh Jackman began the dialogue, Keen interrupted him by shouting at him in perfect Spanish; this was something that also appeared in the finished film. Her commitment to that scene during the audition was praised by Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart.
- #006
Hugh Jackman dehydrated himself for forty-eight hours before shooting Wolverine's shirtless scenes, losing water weight. He added that the method is dangerous and that no one should try it at home. Jackman had used the same technique five years earlier to create his gaunt look for the prisoner Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (2012).
- #007
James Mangold stated that this film is set in 2029 to avoid any contradiction with the timeline established in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), but that his aim was to make a standalone film not limited to continuing previous stories or making sequels.
- #008
Sir Patrick Stewart claimed that most of the dialogue in the dinner-table scene where Logan and Charles Xavier tell the family about the school for mutants was improvised by the actors at director James Mangold's request, after the scripted dialogue had been filmed.
- #009
Director James Mangold was so impressed by Laura's stunt double Rissa Kilar's determination that he decided to give her a role in this film. She was cast as the mutant "Pine Cone Girl."
- #010
In an interview, Hugh Jackman stated that the only way he would reprise his role was if it were a crossover between Deadpool and Wolverine. Both Deadpool films contained jokes aimed at Wolverine. Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) is also a close friend of Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman will reprise the role of Wolverine in the Deadpool and Wolverine films, as confirmed in 2022 by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. Thus Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) was born.
- #011
(About 16 minutes) The samurai sword offered to Logan in The Wolverine (2013) can be seen in the foundry where Logan and Charles are hiding.
- #012
This is the first superhero film to be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. It is also the first superhero film nominated for screenwriting since The Incredibles (2004).
- #013
Although Hugh Jackman does not doubt that the character of Logan will eventually be recast with a new actor, he stated that he hopes X-23 will become the series' new "Wolverine."
- #014
The name Logan uses as a driver, "James Howlett," is his birth name in the comics and in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
- #015
Hugh Jackman stated that he learned the American accent for all of his portrayals of Logan by copying Johnny Depp.
- #016
Professor Xavier's psionic blast was created by shooting shaky footage and then re-stabilizing the frame in post, resulting in images with strange motion blur that had both an organic and a highly unusual smearing effect. The team shot the sequences slightly wider than needed so that the shots could be blown up to hide the edges of the stabilization effect.
- #017
Opening in 4,071 theatres in the United States, this film became the widest-opening R-rated film in cinema history. It was later surpassed by It (2017), which opened in 4,103 theatres.
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