The 48-year-old actor teases during a new interview, 'When you see the full movie you'll understand.'
- Jan 23, 2017
AceShowbiz - "Logan" is not set in the same universe as other "X-Men" movies, Hugh Jackman reveals. According to the 48-year-old actor, he and director James Mangold had decided to ignore the various complicated "X-Men" timelines and they don't even see the film existing in quite the same world.
"When you see the full movie you'll understand," Hugh tells Digital Spy, "Not only is it different in terms of timeline and tone, it's a slightly different universe. It's actually a different paradigm and that will become clear."
Hugh says that 20th Century Fox gave James and him a blank canvas when the actor told them this is the last time he will play Wolverine. "I said this was my last one and they said make the movie you want to make," he explains, "And so Jim [Mangold] and I had this blank canvas and we wanted to make something really different. Definitely totally different, I kept thinking The Wrestler, Unforgiven."
He adds, "[Jim] was thinking Unforgiven as well and The Gauntlet and these other movies which just seemed to really match his character. Early on we had the idea for the title not having anything to do with Wolverine in it but just being about the man. And what the collateral damage of being Wolverine your entire life would be."
"It's a stand alone movie in many ways," Hugh says of "Logan", "It's not really beholden to time lines and story lines in the other movies. Obviously Patrick Stewart was in there so we have some crossover but it feels very different and very fresh. [Following the timelines] becomes a chess game that you try to serve, which actually doesn't help to tell a story and it's sort of been a bit all over the place. I'm not critical of it - X-Men was the first movie really in comic book, no one thought there'd be another and there were different directors different off shoots."
"Logan" is set to hit U.S. theaters on March 3.
