LOGAN ( Spoiler Alert)

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Kind of ironic that the best male/female teamup with Wolverine is this father/daughter duet

Rogue
Jean Grey
Kayla
Mariko
Yukio



Maybe the one that comes close would be the teamup with Yukio ( another fan favorite)?


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What could have been -- from a Liev Schreiber interview .

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ray-donovan-liev-schreiber-talks-season-5-latest-emmy-nom-1029018

What's a project that you had to turn down to take on the role of Ray?

There was some talk about having me work with Hugh [Jackman] again in Logan, and that would have been fun. I couldn't because of Ray, and I'm not sure if it was a storyline that they were completely committed to. I love Hugh so much, and it would have been fun to do one more with him.

*It looks like that James ( and the other screenwriters) and Hugh may have decided to go the route of X-24 ( Wolverine/Logan's dark side) in resolving the issue of the final redemption and finding peace for LOGAN!

*Liev, James, and Hugh go back a long way -- in that long ago charmer of a movie, KATE AND LEOPOLD. Hugh and Liev reunited in the first solo spinoff ( ORIGINS), but with a different director,

Hugh and Liev seem like good NYC friends as Liev once mentioned that Hugh was a good tennis player ( presumably because they have shared some matches together). If I remember right, didn't Liev bring his two sons to the premiere of PAN?


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LOGAN NOIR is still being screened in this cinema for solo screenings for 3 days!

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It is being screened at the Performing Arts Center of the University of Notre Dame!

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Fanboys will be fanboys

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If you click on the link, the podcast page appears and she talks about working with Hugh. Not sure if that is all, or just teaser-comments.

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If you haven't watched LOGAN NOIR -- here's a trailer :

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Superfan Wolver-Steve has a great portfolio collection of Wolverine images. Here's one of them featuring an uber-fierce Logan --

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They're still screening LOGAN NOIR -- this time in York, England!

www.yorkmix.com/things-to-do/films-see-york-month-september-2017/

And finally – Logan Noir might sound like the name of an Aldi own-brand coffee, but it is in fact a black and white screening of Hugh Jackman’s well-received swansong as Wolverine from earlier this year. You can catch it at City Screen on Monday 25th.

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Numerical coincidences for LOGAN --

comicbook.com/marvel/2017/09/10/logan-box-office-marvel-easter-egg/

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Hugh says a book has partly influenced the script of LOGAN --

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Watch LOGAN NOIR on October 31 -- on All Hallows' Eve!

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Kids continue to be fascinated by Wolverine

Here's one with Little Logan! Cute

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Anyone familiar with the two-action movie series re assassination attempts against the USA President in DC and London, with Gerald Butler in the lead? He has just been interviewed for the third fiim in the series and he has said that it is inspired by LOGAN, as his movie will dwell on the innerworld of the lead role ala LOGAN!

screenrant.com/angel-has-fallen-gerard-butler-tone/

It must be very pleasing for Hugh and James to know that other filmmaking efforts have been inspired by their artistic creation!

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Logan is already so influential I saw several actors talking about them wanting to stop playing their characters in a manner like Hugh did in Logan and give them really emotional ending. Also good to read Gerard is OK enough to give interviews, he had that accident few days ago. His new film Geostorm looks hilarious :P

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This one captures Logan's fierce expression.

Hugh has such kind eyes... but they can be very expressive, too, when he is portraying a different emotional layer of the character he plays.

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And as part of the lead-up to the Oscars ( March 4) and coincidentally also on its first anniversary of release (March 3), James Mangold shares more insights on LOGAN --


ew.com/movies/2018/03/02/logan-screenplay/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social


Do check out the link for the original interview with Mangold and for the reproduction of the cited script lines.

The transcript ( only the text) is being reproduced here in case we lose the online link eventually.

Logan director reveals origins of adamantium bullet scene



Kevin P. Sullivan March 02, 2018 AT 04:54 PM EST


In the lead-up to this year’s Academy Awards on March 4, EW is taking a closer look at some of the screenplays honored in the original and adapted categories. Each weekday between now and Oscar night, nominated writers will break down a single scene that was essential to the stories they were telling and explain how the pages came together.

The challenge set out before Logan writers James Mangold, Scott Frank, and Michael Green was an immense one: Craft a fitting conclusion for the most enduring figure of this era of superhero movies, and say something definitive about the genre.

The movie, which earned an Adapted Screenplay nomination, is an emotionally raw and brutal story about the passing of a generation and the effect of violence on a life. Below, Mangold dissects a key scene in which Logan (Hugh Jackman) explains why he carries an adamantium bullet with him.




JAMES MANGOLD: “What this scene was about, particularly for Scott Frank and I, was finding a way to get a toehold on these characters in this new psychological structure, where Laura [Dafne Keen] is a more dominating and forceful character. One of the seedlings that it came from were notes — I actually framed this scratch pad — just a couplet to build this scene around. Logan is someone who fears love because whomever he loves dies or gets injured. He’s in this horrible catch-22. If he allows himself to feel affection, in a way he curses the person.”



“The couplet I’m talking about and the construction of him having a dream and the set-up of ‘You had a nightmare’ and ‘Do you have nightmares?’ The couplet was ‘People hurt me’ and ‘I hurt people.’ The nightmare was way for Scott and I to examine the contrary way these two heroes view their own fears. Laura grew up incarcerated and treated as an object, so her nightmares are ones of abuse. Logan’s have evolved. He feels haunted by the violence of his 200-year life. The violence he fear is not what anyone does to him, but actually what he does to others. That was the seedling of the scene.”




As the pages bounced back and forth between Scott and I, it became an opportunity to address a functional plot point — this adamantium bullet. What the scene started to be about was a chance to address this bullet.”




“The tactic as writers we tried to apply to this was that Logan offers an explanation for the bullet that, at first, is a lie — like a child’s lie. It’s just word salad. He catches himself, looking at the purity of his daughter, and tells her the straight truth.”




“In a way, the reason the scene is so important to me is because it’s a huge turning point in which Laura is saving Logan at this point, but then Logan has made himself vulnerable to her. She’s in power. She is given this extremely painful truth from Logan, and we have to see what she does with it. What she does is just about her hearing him and not judging him — and him finding the love in his daughter. Even during an admission this frightening and destabilizing for a child to hear, his daughter is strong enough and tough enough and kind enough to handle it and reflect back to him in a way that furthers their relationship.



“Scott Frank and I were literally trading pages back and forth. I ended the scene on ‘I hurt people too.'”




“Then Scott wrote, ‘You’re going to have to learn to live with that.'”




“And I loved that, but I felt like Laura would say, ‘Well, they were bad people.'”



“Then Scott, literally as the voice of Logan, added, ‘All the same.’ This scene becomes about what the whole movie is about: violence — good or bad — scars the practitioner.”

I can't quite appreciate how a script dealing with a coming-of-age LGBT story can be the very solid favorite ...compared to a movie that is full of life's lessons and so dramatically portrayed in LOGAN. Just my opinion, of course.


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Much ado about nothing


www.cbr.com/logan-uk-violence-complaints-2017/

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You may remember EDDIE DAVENPORT as Hugh's stunt double ( and also as his clone X-24) in LOGAN. Before that, Eddie became his first stunt double as well as doing motion capture for REAL STEEL.


Eddie shares his filmmaking experience, especially with Hugh, on this article from AIN'T IT COOL NEWS --


www.aintitcool.com/node/80602


Interesting and insightful article especially when he talks about the specific sequences involving the Jackman movie characters.


As to how it was working with Jackman --

W: You worked with Hugh Jackman again on LOGAN both as a stunt performer and his stunt double. What were some of your memories of working on LOGAN with him?


ED: Oh man, the best memory. I mean he's such … you can't really say enough great things about Hugh. Everybody's just, "Oh I heard he's the nicest guy, is it true?" And it's just like, it's beyond true. The guy is just, sets the bar. He's so well aligned in his integrity and his purpose just to ... He's such a giver, you know. It's so amazing, he's so selfless and he's so full of heart, that it's just, it kinda makes you not wanna work with anybody else...

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Hugh and Eddie!

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http://instagram.com/p/BmiixoRj0sN

Then...afterwards he helps himself to some cigars

Was that the dichotomy in Wolverine/Logan's character?


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Great fanart and great character studies!

If there is one acting portrayal from Hugh Jackman that was equally overlooked by the Oscars, after Les Miserables, it is his portrayal of this man whose personal conflicts ( good vs evil) defined his character! That LOGAN was the redemptive healing he sought and ultimately found made this film portrayal very impressive and compelling! People cite PRISONERS as his next best performance after LesMis - I would argue that the LOGAN portrayal was more nuanced, engaging, and cathartic!

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