Logan (movie)
Logan | |
---|---|
Directed by | James Mangold |
Written by | Scott Frank James Mangold Michael Green |
Produced by | Simon Kinberg Lauren Shuler Donner |
Starring | Hugh Jackman Patrick Stewart Dafne Keen Boyd Holbrook Stephen Merchant Richard E. Grant |
Cinematography | John Mathieson |
Edited by | Michael McCusker Dirk Westervelt |
Music by | Marco Beltrami |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release dates | March 3rd, 2017 |
Running time | 136 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $97 million[1] |
Logan is a 2017 superhero drama thriller action movie based upon the fictional character known as Wolverine.
The movie was directed by James Mangold. It deals with a story set in an alternate universe's future where an aging Wolverine coping with an old and senile Charles Xavier.
Plot
[change | change source]In an alternate future, half of mutant kind have been murdered by a corporation called Transigen. No mutant children have been born for years.
An aged Logan uses his second name "James" and his surname "Howlett" as a cover to traverse a changed, hostile world. A now senile (and dangerous) Professor Xavier requires expensive medication to prevent him from becoming a weapon of mass destruction, and Logan also needs money for a boat for them to live safely on the ocean. Accompanied by mutant albino Caliban, they are fugitives from the law.
Cast
[change | change source]Actor | Character |
---|---|
Hugh Jackman | Logan / X-24 |
Patrick Stewart | Charles Xavier |
Dafne Keen | X-23/ Laura |
Boyd Holbrook | Donald Pierce |
Stephen Merchant | Caliban |
Richard E. Grant | Dr. Zander Rice |
Reactions and box office
[change | change source]The movie was one of the biggest hits of 2017. It earned more than $616 million worldwide. The movie got nominated Best Adapted Screenplay.[2]
Trivia
[change | change source]- This is a future that could be happen if humans would never accepted as X-Men: Days of Future Past showed that they has accepted them.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "BoxOfficeMojo - Logan". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ↑ "Heroic Hollywood - Oscars 2018: 'Logan' Nominated For Best Adapted Screenplay". Retrieved 2018-04-05.[permanent dead link]
Other websites
[change | change source]- Logan at Rotten Tomatoes
- Logan on IMDb
- English-language movies
- 2017 movies
- 2010s superhero movies
- 20th Century Fox movies
- Movies directed by James Mangold
- Movies produced by Lauren Shuler Donner
- Movies produced by Simon Kinberg
- Movies set in Mexico
- Movies set in Texas
- Movies set in the future
- Superhero drama movies
- X-Men (movie series)
- Wolverine movies
- Dystopian movies
- American superhero movies