LOGAN ( Spoiler Alert)

[mamaleh]

I really like the new poster.

Ellen

[jo]

Someone on CHUD has posted about an early screening that he attended --

The Dark Shape
Everything's gonna be fine.

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The document I signed last night strictly says I can't talk about this movie, so...





Do you like FALLOUT?  I like FALLOUT.

[jo]

A post following the above indicated that there were rumors about an early screening --

mcnooj82
Face it, man. TDKR is so bad.

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so, what I heard about the screening is TRUE
 
the fact that the screening happened!

[jo]

Look at his face, his eyes, his aggressive head stance!

He is acting!

[jo]

Hugh posts it on social media --

http://instagram.com/p/BM2OU6rD2Hm

The poster is a winner -- there have been so many adjectives describing it!


Jo

[jo]

Gulp!

http://instagram.com/p/BM4Dyjcj0y7

New ominous image from the wponx gallery!

[jo]

Back to regular programming -- Wolverine greets fans!

[jo]

Is it the same metallic arm ??

[jo]

Will LOGAN make it to China ?



www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2016/11/16/new-batch-hollywood-movies-hoping-make-it-china


Excerpts --

New Batch of Hollywood Movies Hoping to Make It to China
Fergus Ryan | Nov 17, 2016 11:30 am | Add a comment | 132 reads

The last time we took a stab at guessing which Hollywood films would make it to Chinese cinema screens, we got 5 out of 6. Not bad! Let’s try it again shall we?
The following is a very tentative list of films that are at least trying to convince Chinese film authorities to let them in.

There’s a bit of buzz about all of them in industry press and entertainment news. Some are even starting to push out a bit of Chinese-language marketing, which is always a promising sign...

Logan (金刚狼3)

Hugh Jackman has become somewhat of a China-hand over the years having been here a bunch of times to work and promote his films. He's also got at least one Mandarin song in his repertoire which always goes down well.

Hugh was at the Shanghai Film Festival with Brett Ratner for a screening of XMEN: THE LAST STAND.

His last XMen promo appearance in China ( Beijing) was for DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, where he appeared with Chinese actress Fan BingBing.

He was also a special guest for the Chinese New Year in Hongkong, while promoting his movie PAN.

He did appear in a cameo ( and sang the song in Mandarin) for the Wendi Murdoch film project SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN. In this clip, at around 0'34", Hugh sings in English and Mandarin. The first part of the clip from the movie is dubbed ( not Hugh speaking) --

[jo]

Backtracking...


DEADPOOL was banned in China for its R-rated content of VIOLENCE, NUDITY, and GRAPHIC LANGUAGE --

www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/deadpool-denied-release-china-due-856627

According to widespread local media reports, Deadpool, which was produced by 20th Century Fox and based on the Marvel comic book character, has been denied permission to screen in China due to its violence, nudity and graphic language.

A source close to the decision at China Film Group tells The Hollywood Reporter that the reports are indeed accurate. 

Directed by Tim Miller and starring Ryan Reynolds as the most foul-mouthed and self-aware superhero — or anti-hero — in the Marvel catalog, Deadpool hits theaters stateside on Feb. 12. 


China's censorship authorities often work with Hollywood studios to create special cleaned-up cuts of R-rated movies, but sources close to the Deadpool decision say it wasn't possible to excise the offending material without causing plot problems.


China has no ratings system, so the country's media regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), makes an up-down judgment on all film imports, approving or banning them for consumption by Chinese viewers of all ages...

[jo]

I am seeing this kind of fanboy reaction more and more!

From SuperheroHype --

Originally Posted by OutOfBoose
Every new poster or photo makes me want to watch this movie more and more. Looks damn great.

[jo]

Can you imagine walking into a cinema complex and this standee stuns you!

Kevin Perez ‏@misterkayy_ 5h
5 hours ago

New #Logan standee just went up at work. It's beautiful. @wolverinemovie

[jo]

This one is configured differently -- it's an animated clip

http://instagram.com/p/BM5XanUApU7

[jo]

When Hugh has the time, he has to read all the thousands of heartfelt messages of Thanks and Goodbye on his Facebook Page

I am not even Hugh ... and I am almost a little teary-eyed at some of the messages. Also, quite a few have said that they have named their sons " Logan "! And someone's son wants to be called "Wolver" in school

Hey, nobody said that they named their kids with the very British " Hugh "


www.facebook.com/HughJackman

[jo]

Hugh (aka Logan) is such a natural handling kids

[jo]

If you have seen their relationship evolve since the first XMen movie, this scene is even more tearful

[jo]

I have a feeling I will be doing the same thing when I have a chance

[jo]

New image from wponx, simply captioned "BULLET" --

http://instagram.com/p/BM_yJErjVv9

Remember some of the leaked photos at the outset of filming?

[jo]

Two of the early leaked photos ( while filming in New Orleans) --








Note the bullet-ridden limo!

[jo]

Backtracking...


I think this casting call info is now only being appreciated to the full, even before we see the movie --

www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/06/rumoured-casting-breakdown-reportedly-confirms-x-23-for-wolverine-3/



Rumoured casting breakdown reportedly confirms X-23 for Wolverine 3

June 11, 2016 by Gary Collinson —0 Comments


Yesterday we brought you some new set photos from the as-yet-untitled Wolverine 3 featuring Hugh Jackman’s Logan and Patrick Stewart’s Professor X [see here], and now thanks to The Hashtag Show we have a rumoured casting breakdown for the character of X-23, which reportedly confirms the earlier rumour suggesting the Wolverine clone is set to appear in the new movie.



"20th Century Fox are seeking a a 11 – 14 year old girl to play the role of Zoe in a brand new movie!! [ZOE] 11 to 14 year-old girl. Still a child, but a wounded badass, a pound puppy, raised in captivity in a time of battle, without support systems of normal childhood.

She has no family and until now, has never left the compound in which she was born. She has an authentic intensity – her expressions and body language speak volumes, without words. Once released in the outside world, everything is new – every experience and every image a first. This does not mean everything is wonderful or wondrous. Some things she sees (things we might regard as conventional) may scare her or anger her and things we may find interesting may bore her. She has not been instructed in many social conventions – she can eat like an animal. She studies and often mimics people’s behavior. She has a high IQ, but is also a temperamental, impulsive and feral creature that can raise genuine mayhem. She is a girl that has never been kissed. Looking for a REAL girl – not made up or done up. Also with genuine edge, not made up or put on. Martial arts or gymnastics experience preferred but not necessary – but actress must be extremely physical and able to improvise scenes without necessarily resorting to speech. Do NOT play it ‘cute.'...

Zoe is, of course, the code name for Laura Kinney aka X-23!


Little did we know then how important a role she will be playing in the story of LOGAN!


Jo

[jo]

And finding Dafne Keen for the role of Laura ( aka X-23) seems like a real casting coup! We haven't even seen her acting full on, but what we have seen of her in the trailer and photo stills seems to show that she can be a real lead, albeit diminutive, in this final Wolverine movie.

Just take a look at her expression in one of the leaked photos when they were filming --

[jo]

And now this --

http://instagram.com/p/BM2OU6rD2Hm

Lucky Jim Mangold for casting her!

[jo]

Very interesting perspective, based mainly from the trailer, on why the Wolverine saga in the persona of Hugh Jackman could be a unique superhero journey, quite unlike other heroes's tales in the genre!

badshakespeare.com/2016/11/20/logan-could-be-the-most-important-superhero-movie-ever/

Logan Could Be The Most Important Superhero Movie Ever

Date: November 20, 2016
Author: fronzelneekburm


by Michael B. Hock


The opening moments of the trailer for Logan is an odd one for a superhero movie. It’s a simple image of the protagonist’s hand and arm, bloodied and shaking while there’s a voiceover from Patrick Stewart as Professor X asking, “Logan, what have you done?” as the first notes of the Johnny Cash version of “Hurt” starts to play.
This is odd for several reasons. For one, Logan’s hand and arm are iconic to the character – for a superhero with metal bones and the ability to heal, he’s mostly identified by his claws. His powerful hands and arm are rendered weak in this image. Even early posters for the movie show off a small hand holding his, metal claws extended. These iconic claws won’t make an appearance until one minute and twenty four seconds into the trailer, right as Johnny Cash says the word “hurt”. Which, less face it, isn’t an accident, especially given the bleak nature of this superhero film.

The trailer, however, sets this film up to be one of the most important superhero films of all times. That’s a lot to put on a film that has, at this point, only released about a minute and a half of footage along with a few black and white stills.

Logan is the third standalone film for the character of Wolverine, played by Kate and Leopold star Hugh Jackman. Also, according to Jackman, it’s the last time he will be putting on the claws, facial hair, and berserker rages which allowed him hack and slash his way into our hearts.



What makes this movie so important is that it might actually be the last film for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, rather than him saying that it is, and then him being enticed with money. This is a role that was played by Jackman in over nine films over the course of 17 years. That’s one-seven years. A child getting into college next year will never know a world in which Hugh Jackman wasn’t Wolverine. In the time that Hugh Jackman was Wolverine, we’ve had three Spider-Men, three Batmen, two Supermen, two versions of Fantastic Four… hell, there were two different versions of the X-Men in the time since Hugh Jackman took the part! They recast literally everyone with younger models except Jackman.

They even killed off Wolverine in the comics and replaced him with someone else – but Jackman still has the part.
I love comic books, and I have for most of my life. So, the glut of comic book movies is actually pretty exciting for me. (Which isn’t exactly a glut, what with Marvel and DC releasing a whopping 2 movies each every year, which adds up to less than 1% of the movies being released each year. That’s another essay.) But I have to agree with one thing that some people have said that weren’t me, and have said it smarter: one of the problem with comic books is that they never have a real ending. Superman and Batman are still fighting crime, pretty much unchanged since the 1930’s, give or take some underwear on the outside of their clothes. Every once in a while there’s a major shake-up, but in the comics no one stays dead, and the status quo is returned soon enough, either through a shocking development or a new writer just saying “screw it, let’s just bring back the original guy.”



This can rob these stories of their mythos. If Gotham is never really ever safe, what does that mean for Batman? He’s kind of locked in an eternal state of trying to make things better. What’s the end point? Is there one? Or will he spend forever battling the Penguin, eventually hoping he’ll run out of stupid umbrellas and reasons to commit-bird themed robberies?

And this is true for movies, too. Christopher Nolan tried to do it with the Dark Knight Trilogy, giving Batman a purpose beyond simple Penguin fighting, but it was marred by the fact that almost weeks after the last movie came out, we all found out that Reindeer Games star Ben Affleck was going to take on the cape and cowl and battle Superman. I don’t mean to pick on DC here. Spider-Man 3 was an interesting end-point, but it was quickly rebooted to The Amazing Spider-Man, and when those two movies weren’t profitable we suddenly have a brand NEW Spider-Man, this one more Avenger-y and clearly not CGI until the actor could film scenes exclusively with Robert Downy, Jr. (In Civil War, there was literally a battle behind them, but they took a minute to have a nice conversation, just the two of them.)

This lack of an ending hurts the mission of the superhero mythos. It locks them in this Sisyphusean experience that doesn’t allow closure. It speaks more to franchising: we won’t tell a complete story because here’s Captain America in Battle Armor, direct for your holiday purchasing, and watch for Captain America in Deluxe Battle Armor as he will appear in Captain America 4: Live Free or Captain America Harder.
Logan is going to be important because it focuses on the end. Not just a specific end story for Wolverine, but for this version of Wolverine, who has existed in some form since 2000. Who has lost a love, and gone to Japan to find himself. Who battled with the X-Men against Magneto and sparred with Cyclops. Who time traveled in order to save the future from giant mutant destroying robots. Who did… whatever the hell was X-Men: Origins: Wolverine. Ok, they weren’t all winners.



The story is supposed to take it’s cues from an old Wolverine story called “Old Man Logan.” It obviously will not follow that story exactly, as that one involved a lot of Hulk-incest and cannibalism, which may not be quite as filmable as they would hope. But even that story was “imaginary” (ok, they all are…but this is comic-book imaginary)  until of course they wanted the older Wolverine to show up after the other Wolverine was killed. (see what I mean.)




This story, while taking those cues, is still telling the very specific story of the Hugh Jackman Wolverine. It’s telling us how this specific version of Wolverine is ending his days, and the trailer at least (the movie is going to take some more analysis) is ending it with more of a period and less of a question mark. The story is bleak, and it’s unlike anything that I’ve seen in a superhero trailer before. We’re not seeing a ton of images where Wolverine is breaking necks. Any one of those is juxtaposed with him as a broken man, barely able to put on a shirt.

Let me reiterate that image for you. The iconic self-healing berserker mutant that was once ripped in half can’t put on a shirt.

This trailer humanizes Wolverine, it casts him in the light of a man who has had his adventures, and may not have more in him. It’s going to be a very different type of movie. We’ve gotten dystopia, before (we’ve even gotten dystopia in the X-Men movies) but this is an odd one. It seems to be a movie about hope and survival..

I’ve no doubt in my mind that one day, we’ll get a new non-Hugh Jackman Wolverine. I doubt this new person will stick around the 17 years and 9 movies that Hugh Jackman did. (That’s two more than Shatner could do as Captain Kirk, FYI, although in fairness, he wasn’t the lead of all of them.) but for now, watching the trailer to Logan, I have hope that it is going to honor the actor who took on this role as much as it does the character. I have a feeling that we are going to see a very different movie, and if it can be an ending to a superhero epic, it will be a very important one.

We'll see how Mangold and Jackman end the tale of Wolverine, aka Logan!

[jo]

I've been curious to hear how Dafne Keen speaks.

heavy.com/entertainment/2016/10/sienna-novikov-as-x-23-who-plays-in-logan-hugh-jackman-wolverine-men-trailer-is-laura-kinney-bio-marvel/

Please scroll down for the clip showing her in a TV program where she speaks two lines. She was born in 2005 and she is 10/11 years old and her voice shows that kind of innocence, even if her face is very expressive ( evoking a more mature persona). She speaks with an English accent ( although she is also supposed to be fluent in Spanish).

Ironic that she won't be able to see her movie debut without a guardian accompanying her

It's curious that X-23 is represented in the movie as a child, instead of the much older teenager in the comics.


Jo

[jo]

It looks like the LOGAN trailer has created a bit of a fad --

sports.yahoo.com/news/somebody-recut-iron-man-trailer-172653379.html

. Iron Man got the Logan trailer treatment, and it’s incredibly heartbreaking.

I have seen a few others recently but did not take note enough to post some of them. But it seems the emotional impact of the LOGAN trailer has moved many others to see if the same could work with previous trailers or assemblage of scenes. First, they redid it with XMen2, then an assemblage of XMen movies, then Jackman XMen movies...and then I started seeing it applied to other superhero movies.

comicbook.com/dc/2016/11/07/batman-movie-trailer-done-in-logan-style/

If the trailer for Logan didn’t tear at your heart, then there are few things that can. The slow footage paired beautifully with Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” a la Nine Inch Nails, and Hugh Jackman’s brief performance was enough to send fans into a fit. The anticipated trailer has since spawned off dozens of copycats from fans of other franchises, and it seems like one DC Films fanboy has given the Logan treatment to Gotham’s own vigilante, Batman...

And there was even a LAST OF US copy inspired by HURT --

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPaUZnmRc4



It seems the emotional reaction people experienced watching the LOGAN trailer was refreshing...and inspiring!

Jo