LOGAN ( Spoiler Alert)

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Some young actors have found co-starring with Hugh Jackman as special acting debuts.

The most outstanding find was young Dafne Keen as Wolverine's biological daughter Laura.

In that same year , two budding child actresses in The Greatest Showman delighted audiences as Phineas's daughters.

A promising one is Benjamin Pajak, who is delighting many theatre fans as young Winthrop in The Music Man!

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LOGAN is now a superhero, nay action, film classic!

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David Hayter was the screenwriter for the 1st XMen movie.

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WOLVERINE ON FILM

In the year 2000, the modern era of comic book films was born with the release of the first X-Men movie. For Wolverine, despite a significant height difference, Hugh Jackman would embody the character in one of the most iconic and long-running roles in cinema history.

DAVID HAYTER (screenwriter on X-Men and X2): Everything in the movies was shaped by my love of Chris Claremont's work. Wolverine is the ultimate badass, but, thematically, he’s also the fulcrum between Magneto and Charles Xavier. Xavier fights to do the right thing and so does Wolverine, yet Magneto wants to protect mutants by any means necessary, and Wolverine is a by-any-means-necessary kind of guy. He’s such a brilliant creation and such a pivotal character for the X-Men, He’s also just one of the greatest comic book characters ever created, so I just wanted to do right by him.


I was there for pretty much all of the casting and the first time Hugh Jackman read, he didn’t get cast. He was great, but he was the nicest guy in the world and he was very tall and super handsome, so we didn’t think he was Wolverine. Tom Rothman, the head of Fox, said it was going to be Dougray Scott, so we cast him while he was doing Mission: Impossible II and we kept getting calls from Tom Cruise saying, “We just need him a little longer.” When we were about to start shooting the movie, we hadn’t seen Wolverine or fit him for costumes so we sent costumer Louise Mingenbach down to Australia to fit him, and it turned out he had been in a motorcycle accident shooting Mission: Impossible II and he’s dropped down to like 150 pounds. It just wasn’t going to work.

“HUGH’S REAL STRENGTH CAME FROM THE HUMANITY OF WOLVERINE. ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS TO FIND THE VICIOUSNESS.”

[Producer] Lauren Shuler Donner said, “Let’s bring back Hugh Jackman.” So she had him flown out and they did coaching sessions with him to really get him to that sort of Clint Eastwood hardass edge. Then he came in and did his audition and there was this one moment where he turned to the camera and he looked like young Clint Eastwood. That was the moment.

I think one thing Hugh captured with Wolverine is his heart. Hugh is such a lovely, caring guy and that really came through in the character. Hugh’s real strength came from the humanity of Wolverine. All that was left was to find the viciousness.

CLAREMONT: When it comes to Hugh Jackman’s performance, the stock answer I give is this: Wolverine is 5’ 1” and Hugh Jackman is 6’ 2” — who cares. He nailed the character. I cannot think of anyone who could do it better or even as well. I’m sure someone will come along eventually, but for me, Hugh Jackman embodied all the things that made Logan real to me as a creator. It was a mysterious something that just clicked.

HAYTER: His arc in the first film was pretty simple. It was all about, “Can he open himself up to other people?” He’d shut himself away for so long and then he runs into these people who need him, so it’s about him risking his heart again. In X2, we wanted Wolverine to face his history, so we wanted a story about pain and trauma and reconciling your past.

Of course, we all got fired after X2 because [Fox] wanted to reach some arbitrary date. I watched all the movies though because X-Men was a huge part of my life. Some elements afterward were great and some were not so great. I really loved X-Men: Days of Future Past and Logan, I thought, was epic. It was everything we wanted to do back in the day but couldn't because it was PG-13.

By the way, one of the proudest moments I had on the first film was when I was called into one of the producer’s offices and they said to me, “Hey, can we just find Wolverine in Alaska instead of Alberta and make him American?” I knew this was coming, but I was ready. I told them, “Everybody knows that Wolverine is Canadian and the fans will kill you.” I had no power in this situation, but I stood my ground and he stayed Canadian.

I don’t like to call myself a true Canadian hero, though. I’ll leave that to others.

Producer Lauren Shuler Donnner ( who was married to the late filmmaker Richard Donner, director of the Chistopher Reeve SUPERMAN) saw and met Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma! in London. She must have seen that beneath the Curly depiction there is an actor who can do justice to most any other roles...and maybe realized that Hugh's natural charisma will win the day!

To this day!

"Seduction Angel, indeed!"

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Interesting new information/hints --

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New details about the upcoming Logan Blu-ray release have hit the web (via Screen Rant), and they seem to suggest a vital connection between Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine and his worst outing as the clawed badass. Specifically, the scene takes place towards the end
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of the movie when Wolverine manages to get Laura (Dafne Keene) to her friends. One of the escaped mutants plays with action figures of Wolverine and Sabretooth and proceeds to ask the aging Logan whether or not Victor Creed was real. From there, Wolverine admits that his sworn
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enemy did exist, and he then recounts the event of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to describe what William Stryker (the Danny Huston version, that is) did to the estranged brothers. This ultimately ties into Logan's final moments, in which the same boy can be seen holding a Wolverine
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action figure during the legendary hero's funeral.
It's somewhat upsetting to learn that this simple reference couldn't make it into the final cut, as Liev Schreiber is easily one of the highlights of the lackluster Origins. Rumors associated with Logan suggest that Schreiber was
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at one point going to cameo as Sabretooth for a brief scene, but that idea was ultimately left out of the film. Like it or not, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is still an important moment in Wolverine's cinematic backstory, and a reference to him would've gone a long way towards tying
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Laura/Dafne --

Grown up...and... exotic!

Hugh will be surprised


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Will there be a connection to LOGAN in Deadpool & Wolverine?


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That's right -- she was 11 when they filmed LOGAN ( 2016)...so 7 years later, she is now 18!


And Hugh is still Wolverine/Logan! Hugh follows her account on Instagram.

www.instagram.com/dafnekeen/


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I just finished watching the final season of His Dark Materials starring Dafne Keen. She does really look so mature now!

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The attached clip is confusing -- you have to ignore the visuals and listen to the video essayist talk about LOGAN.

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MOVIES
Making Logan Was A Hugely Emotional Experience For Patrick Stewart And Hugh Jackman
20th Century Studios
BY WITNEY SEIBOLD/OCT. 9, 2023 11:00 PM EST

In terms of their narrative structure, superhero stories and soap operas are nearly identical. In both formats, writers strain for literally decades to keep the same characters active and interesting. Characters die and return. Rivalries last for years, are settled, and then rekindled anew. Evil twins appear and disappear with regularity. They marry, divorce, marry, divorce, and marry again. In both soaps and superhero comics, it's vitally important to keep the story going indefinitely. The same approach has been taken with superhero movies, as characters enter a universe where they are expected to be crimefighters in perpetuity. "Batman would never retire" is such a sad phrase, indicating that Batman will be eternally trapped in an endless cycle of violence. No one is allowed to have a third act.


James Mangold's 2017 superhero film "Logan" — one of the best of its genre — gave audiences something they rarely see for a costumed vigilante: an end. "Logan" is about the dying days of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart), long after the X-Men disbanded and the world fell into an impoverished wasteland. It seems that living by a code of superhero violence will merely lead to eventual death and destitution, not triumph and retirement. Professor X is living in a disused storage tank of some kind and Logan, his powers fading, drives a limo to make ends meet. Everyone is unhappy. It's a beautiful film.

Stewart got particularly emotional when making "Logan." It was the sixth time he had played Charles Xavier, and the entire experience was a fond farewell. In his new autobiography "Making It So: A Memoir," Stewart speaks candidly about making "Logan," and the touching moment he shared with Hugh Jackman at the film's premiere.


Returning to Charles
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When Stewart was to play Charles Xavier for the first time back in 2000, he didn't even know who the X-Men were (as he describes elsewhere in his book). In 2016, having played the part in six movies, Stewart admitted that he didn't want to play Charles Xavier yet again in 2016, but he was lured by an opportunity to work with James Mangold, a director he admired. He also liked the new premise of the script, writing:

"I started reading. Whoa. The year is 2029. The X-Men themselves are in steep decline, and no mutants have been born for twenty-five years. James and his co-writers, Scott Frank and Michael Green, were exploring the idea of superhero entropy — what happens when they get clapped out and old, their powers waning, the general public indifferent to them?"

Charles, in addition to living in a tank, is dealing from dementia. He babbles, misremembers things, and occasionally has superpowered mental aneurysms that unwittingly cause earthquakes and bodily damage. Filming with his co-stars was also a wonderful experience for Stewart, not just with Jackman, but with the young Dafne Keen, who plays a character named Laura, a semi-feral mutant child with Wolverine's powers. Stewart admired the 11-year-old's passion, writing:


"We started filming in May 2016. Being back on a set with Hugh was thrilling and invigorating. We were joined by Stephen Merchant as the mutant Caliban ... and child actress Dafne Keen, the most extraordinary juvenile performer with whom I have ever worked. [...] Dafne's focus and seriousness were something to behold when we were rehearsing and shooting — she reminded me of myself in my younger 'We are not here to have fun' days."

Stewart said, though, that when the cameras stopped rolling, Keen became kind and genial.

That's a wrap
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Wrapping filming proved to be hard on Stewart, who didn't have the time to really say goodbye; he was too busy to hang around on set. He wrote:

"James directed the movie with such care and sensitivity, accepting creative input from the actors and heightening our performances with his own input. I want to work with him again, and I was desolate when my time on Logan was up. I had another commitment to dash off to, so all of my scenes were completed early in the shoot. Saying goodbye to James, Hugh, Stephen, and Dafne was hard."


Stewart says that he and Jackman finally had a moment to reunite during the film's premiere in February of 2017. It was the first time the actors had seen the completed film, and they wasn't prepared for how they might react. It seems that Jackman became a little overwhelmed, leading to a sweet bonding moment between him and Stewart. From the book:

"I had not yet seen the film and was unprepared for the impact it had on me — and on Hugh. After ... Charles Xavier dies, during a scene in which Logan and Laura stand by the pile of earth that marks his grave, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Hugh had lifted a hand to his cheek to wipe a tear away. There was nothing I could do except take his hand in mine. He smiled at me, and we held hands until the credits ran."

Read More: www.slashfilm.com/1414325/making-logan-hugely-emotional-experience-patrick-stewart-hugh-jackman/

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During filming of LOGAN in New Orleans, Hugh Jackman was seen at a breakfast place (Apolline?) looking like X-24 😊

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Talking about child performances --

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Dafne Keen in Logan: She showed herself to be a gifted actress by outshining Hugh Jackman for much of his Wolverine swansong. She played a mutant with extraordinary abilities and a fierce personality.



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Logan was not about a Wolverine who was always badass & angry & fierce. It was about a warrior already tired & wanting to live his end-days w/ his ailing mentor. But unknowingly he had 1 last mission to deliver. The angst & courage of his waning days that the story highlights! C'est LOGAN!

I think some tend to be a bit shallow in appreciating the main theme of LOGAN. It wasn't all about the snikting and more snikting! Hugh's portrayal was so enriched because he focused on the drama of his waning days - a tired & lonely warrior who simply wanted to ride into the sunset ( like SHANE).

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