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Logan
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
2017 · Directed by James Mangold · 137 min · Action · Drama · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 40 frames
Tagline
Someone has come along.
Plot
In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing, slowly poisoned by his adamantium skeletal grafts. Working as a limousine driver in El Paso, Texas, he and the mutant tracker Caliban take care of the elderly Charles Xavier, in an abandoned smelting plant in northern Mexico. Xavier has dementia that causes him to have destructive telepathic seizures, one of which killed several of the X-Men years prior.
Logan reluctantly agrees to escort Gabriela López, a former nurse for biotechnology corporation Alkali-Transigen, and a young girl named Laura to Eden, a supposed refuge near the American-Canadian border, but finds Gabriela dead. Upon returning to the plant, Logan is confronted by Donald Pierce, Transigen's cyborg chief of security, who had killed Gabriela and was looking for Laura, who had stowed away in the back of Logan's limo and has powers similar to his. She, Logan, and Xavier escape from Pierce and his Reavers, but Caliban is captured. Pierce tortures Caliban into tracking Laura. Xavier and Logan watch a video on Gabriela's phone, revealing that Transigen created Laura and other children from mutant DNA to become weapons. The children proved challenging to control and were to be executed, but Gabriela and other nurses helped some escape. Xavier reveals to Logan that Laura was created from Logan's DNA and calls her Logan's daughter.
In Oklahoma City, Logan discovers that Eden appears in Laura's X-Men comic and tells her it is fictional. The Reavers arrive, but Xavier has a seizure that incapacitates everyone except Logan and Laura, who kill the mercenaries and injects Xavier with levetiracetam. As they flee, Dr. Zander Rice, the head of Transigen, arrives to help Pierce. Logan, Laura, and Xavier help farmer Will Munson and his family after a traffic incident, accepting an offer of dinner at their home, where Logan drives off enforcers from a corporate farm. Rice unleashes X-24, a violent, mindless feral clone of Logan in his prime created as Transigen's ultimate weapon. X-24 kills Xavier and Will's family before capturing Laura. Caliban sets off grenades, killing himself and several Reavers but only injuring Pierce. Logan is outmatched by X-24, but Will pins X-24 with his truck before dying from his injuries. Logan and Laura escape with Xavier's body. After burying Xavier, Logan passes out. Laura takes him to a doctor and persuades him to prove that the site in North Dakota is not Eden. They find Rictor and other Transigen children preparing to cross into Canada. Laura finds an adamantium bullet that Logan has kept since he escaped from the Weapon X facility, which he once considered using to commit suicide. Logan decides not to accompany them, to Laura's dismay.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Michael Green, James Mangold, Scott Frank
- Cinematography: John Mathieson
- Edited by: Michael McCusker, Dirk Westervelt
- Music: Marco Beltrami
- Production design: François Audouy
- Produced by: Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker
Cast
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / X-24
- Dafne Keen as Laura
- Patrick Stewart as Charles
- Elizabeth Rodriguez as Gabriela
- Boyd Holbrook as Pierce
- Stephen Merchant as Caliban
- Richard E. Grant as Dr. Rice
- Stephen Dunlevy as Macon
- Eriq La Salle as Will Munson
- Elise Neal as Kathryn Munson
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: Hutch Parker Entertainment, The Donners' Company, Genre Films, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $97,000,000
- Box office: $619,021,436
- Themes: future, experiment, immortality, self-destruction, cyborg, dystopia, superhero, mutant, road trip, based on comic
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