50 Fun Facts About Logan

Who directed Logan?

He also directed The Wolverine and pitched Logan as 'an extremely bloody, existential Little Miss Sunshine'.

Which comics storyline inspired the film?

Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's story provided the aged-Wolverine premise, though the plot is very different.

In what year is Logan set?

No mutants have been born for 25 years, and Logan's healing is failing.

What is slowly poisoning Logan?

Mangold imagined his healing leaving scars now, 'a kind of tattooing of past battles'.

What job is Logan doing at the start of the film?

The limo becomes the getaway car when Laura stows away in the back.

Where is Charles Xavier being hidden?

A collapsed water tower serves as his cell against his seizures.

What condition causes Xavier's destructive telepathic seizures?

One earlier seizure killed several X-Men, an event the film only alludes to.

Who plays Caliban, the albino mutant tracker who helps care for Xavier?

Mangold liked that the huge Merchant towered over Logan while the child came up to his knee.

Who plays Laura?

She was eleven during the shoot; Mangold wanted a bilingual Latina girl of ten to twelve.

What is the biotechnology corporation that created Laura and the other children?

Nurses like Gabriela smuggled some of the children out when they were slated for execution.

What is Eden?

Logan discovers the location comes from an X-Men comic and insists it is fictional.

Who plays Donald Pierce, Transigen's cyborg head of security?

Holbrook described him as an innovative engineer and a big Wolverine fan who 'just wants to hang out with him'.

What are Pierce's mercenaries called?

Caliban is tortured into tracking Laura for them.

Who plays Dr. Zander Rice, the surgical head of Transigen?

Logan killed his father years earlier during the escape from the Weapon X facility.

What is X-24?

Jackman plays him too; he kills Xavier and the Munson family.

Where do Logan, Laura and Xavier watch Shane in a hotel?

Its closing speech becomes Logan's eulogy.

What drug does Laura inject into Xavier to stop his seizure in the hotel?

Everyone in the hotel is paralysed by the seizure except Logan and Laura.

Which farming family takes the trio in for dinner?

Eriq La Salle plays the father, who pins X-24 with his truck before dying.

Who kills Charles Xavier?

It happens in the farmhouse, moments after Charles has enjoyed a rare peaceful evening.

How does Caliban die?

He takes several mercenaries with him but only injures Pierce.

According to Rice, why have no new mutants been born?

Transigen distributed the crops deliberately.

What does the serum Rictor gives Logan do?

He overdoses on it to take on the mercenaries, then it wears off.

What does Laura use to kill X-24?

Logan had kept the bullet since Weapon X and once considered using it on himself.

How is Logan mortally wounded?

Laura calls him 'Daddy' as he dies in her arms.

What does Laura do to Logan's grave marker before leaving?

The film's final image.

Which 1953 Western is quoted for Logan's eulogy?

Mangold also cited The Cowboys, Paper Moon, The Gauntlet and Unforgiven as visual reference points.

Which two films did Hugh Jackman keep bringing up as models for the tone?

Jackman wanted an Unforgiven-style ending; Mangold insisted Logan should die.

What did Jackman do to make sure the film could be R-rated?

Deadpool's success the year before had shown an R-rated Marvel film could work.

What false title was used to hide the production?

Local media in Louisiana soon saw through it.

In which three states was Logan mainly filmed?

Natchez, Ferriday and Albuquerque all hosted the shoot from May to August 2016.

Which villain did Liev Schreiber hope to reprise, before the character was cut from the script?

Bryan Singer had also teased Mister Sinister for the film, but Mangold said he would not appear.

Who composed the score after Cliff Martinez was replaced?

He had worked with Mangold on 3:10 to Yuma and The Wolverine.

At which festival did Logan premiere in February 2017?

It screened out of competition alongside T2 Trainspotting.

What was the black-and-white version of the film called?

Fox had already run a black-and-white social media campaign that made fans wonder if the whole film would be monochrome.

Which short film preceded Logan in US, Canadian and UK cinemas?

Deadpool 2 followed the next year.

Logan was nominated for which Academy Award, a first for a live-action superhero film?

The National Board of Review also named it one of the ten best films of 2017.

Roughly how much did Logan gross worldwide?

That made it the third-highest-grossing R-rated film at the time, on a $97 million budget.

Whose R-rated March opening-day record did Logan break?

Its $33.1 million day was also the third-biggest R-rated opening day behind Deadpool and The Matrix Reloaded.

What Rotten Tomatoes score does Logan hold?

It became the best-reviewed film in the X-Men franchise.

Where did Logan kill Zander Rice's father years earlier?

It ties the film back to X2 and the adamantium bonding.

Which Marvel characters did Jackman say he would have liked Wolverine to meet had he joined the MCU?

He got his MCU wish in a different way with Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024.

Where in the film is the fictional Eden actually located, prompting Logan to call it made-up?

Laura persuades him to go and prove it is not real, and finds Rictor and the other children there.

Who co-wrote Logan's screenplay with James Mangold?

David James Kelly had first been hired to write the script in 2014 before Green took over in 2015.

What was Logan's production budget?

It grossed $619.2 million worldwide, with $392.7 million coming from outside the US and Canada.

Mangold pitched Logan to Jackman and the studio as 'an extremely bloody, existential' version of which film?

He also cited Shane, The Cowboys, The Gauntlet and Unforgiven as visual reference points.

Which X-Men villain did Bryan Singer say would debut in the third Wolverine film, only for him to be dropped?

Singer had tied X-Men: Apocalypse's post-credits scene to the character in his commentary.

In May 2016 Logan filmed a fight scene at which NASA site in New Orleans East?

Other Louisiana locations included Amite City, Husser and Greenlawn Cemetery in Hammond.

How old was Dafne Keen when Logan was shot, according to Mangold?

Mangold said she carried 'all the time, a slight strangeness'.

What grade did CinemaScore audiences give Logan?

PostTrak audiences rated it five out of five.

Which body named Logan one of the top ten films of 2017?

Its Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination was a first for a live-action superhero film.