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This Logan trivia quiz covers James Mangold's 2017 film, the neo-Western that gave Hugh Jackman's Wolverine his send-off after seventeen years and became the first live-action superhero film nominated for a screenwriting Oscar. The easy questions cover the setup: 2029, no new mutants, Logan driving a limo in El Paso, a dementia-stricken Charles Xavier hidden in Mexico, Caliban, Laura and the run to Eden. The harder ones dig into Transigen, Zander Rice, Donald Pierce and the Reavers, X-24, the adamantium bullet, Rictor's serum, the Munson farm and the eulogy borrowed from Shane. Behind the scenes it covers the Old Man Logan comics, the Westerns Mangold used as reference, Jackman's pay cut to secure the R rating, the fake title Juarez, the Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico shoot, Dafne Keen's casting at eleven, Sabretooth being written out, the Berlin premiere, Logan Noir, the box office records and the 93% Rotten Tomatoes score. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our Wolverine movies and X-Men movies quizzes.
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Q 01Who directed Logan?
James Mangold
He also directed The Wolverine and pitched Logan as 'an extremely bloody, existential Little Miss Sunshine'.
Q 02Which comics storyline inspired the film?
Old Man Logan
Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's story provided the aged-Wolverine premise, though the plot is very different.
Q 03In what year is Logan set?
2029
No mutants have been born for 25 years, and Logan's healing is failing.
Q 04What is slowly poisoning Logan?
His adamantium skeleton
Mangold imagined his healing leaving scars now, 'a kind of tattooing of past battles'.
Q 05What job is Logan doing at the start of the film?
Limousine driver in El Paso
The limo becomes the getaway car when Laura stows away in the back.
Q 06Where is Charles Xavier being hidden?
An abandoned smelting plant in northern Mexico
A collapsed water tower serves as his cell against his seizures.
Q 07What condition causes Xavier's destructive telepathic seizures?
Dementia
One earlier seizure killed several X-Men, an event the film only alludes to.
Q 08Who plays Caliban, the albino mutant tracker who helps care for Xavier?
Stephen Merchant
Mangold liked that the huge Merchant towered over Logan while the child came up to his knee.
Q 09Who plays Laura?
Dafne Keen
She was eleven during the shoot; Mangold wanted a bilingual Latina girl of ten to twelve.
Q 10What is the biotechnology corporation that created Laura and the other children?
Alkali-Transigen
Nurses like Gabriela smuggled some of the children out when they were slated for execution.
Q 11What is Eden?
A supposed mutant refuge near the Canadian border
Logan discovers the location comes from an X-Men comic and insists it is fictional.
Q 12Who plays Donald Pierce, Transigen's cyborg head of security?
Boyd Holbrook
Holbrook described him as an innovative engineer and a big Wolverine fan who 'just wants to hang out with him'.
Q 13What are Pierce's mercenaries called?
The Reavers
Caliban is tortured into tracking Laura for them.
Q 21According to Rice, why have no new mutants been born?
Genetically engineered crops in the food supply
Transigen distributed the crops deliberately.
Q 22What does the serum Rictor gives Logan do?
Temporarily boosts his healing and strength
He overdoses on it to take on the mercenaries, then it wears off.
Q 23What does Laura use to kill X-24?
An adamantium bullet in Logan's revolver
Q 14Who plays Dr. Zander Rice, the surgical head of Transigen?
Richard E. Grant
Logan killed his father years earlier during the escape from the Weapon X facility.
Q 15What is X-24?
A feral clone of Logan in his prime
Jackman plays him too; he kills Xavier and the Munson family.
Q 16Where do Logan, Laura and Xavier watch Shane in a hotel?
Oklahoma City
Its closing speech becomes Logan's eulogy.
Q 17What drug does Laura inject into Xavier to stop his seizure in the hotel?
Levetiracetam
Everyone in the hotel is paralysed by the seizure except Logan and Laura.
Q 18Which farming family takes the trio in for dinner?
The Munsons
Eriq La Salle plays the father, who pins X-24 with his truck before dying.
Q 19Who kills Charles Xavier?
X-24
It happens in the farmhouse, moments after Charles has enjoyed a rare peaceful evening.
Q 20How does Caliban die?
Setting off grenades among the Reavers
He takes several mercenaries with him but only injures Pierce.
Logan had kept the bullet since Weapon X and once considered using it on himself.
Q 24How is Logan mortally wounded?
X-24 impales him on a tree branch
Laura calls him 'Daddy' as he dies in her arms.
Q 25What does Laura do to Logan's grave marker before leaving?
Tilts the cross into an X
The film's final image.
Q 26Which 1953 Western is quoted for Logan's eulogy?
Shane
Mangold also cited The Cowboys, Paper Moon, The Gauntlet and Unforgiven as visual reference points.
Q 27Which two films did Hugh Jackman keep bringing up as models for the tone?
The Wrestler and Unforgiven
Jackman wanted an Unforgiven-style ending; Mangold insisted Logan should die.
Q 28What did Jackman do to make sure the film could be R-rated?
Took a pay cut
Deadpool's success the year before had shown an R-rated Marvel film could work.
Q 29What false title was used to hide the production?
Juarez
Local media in Louisiana soon saw through it.
Q 30In which three states was Logan mainly filmed?
Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi
Natchez, Ferriday and Albuquerque all hosted the shoot from May to August 2016.