In a conversation with Variety, Fox's film chairman Stacey Snider shared concerns her fellow studio executives had with writer and director James Mangold's darker, intense story for LOGAN.
“Inside, there was real consternation about the intensity of the tone of the film,” she said in a Q&A at the Recode Media conference Tuesday in Laguna Niguel, Calif.. “It’s more of an elegy about life and death. The paradigm for it was a Western, and my colleagues were up in arms. It’s not a wise-cracking cigar-chomping mutton-sporting Wolverine, and the debate internally became, isn’t that freakin’ boring? Isn’t it exciting to imagine Wolverine as a real guy and he’s world-weary and he doesn’t want to fight anymore until a little girl needs him?”
Obviously, Fox stuck with Mangold's vision of a more mature and R-rated Wolverine movie and the studio needs to be commended for it. Hopefully, when it releases the movie delivers. We here at DailySuperHero.com will let you know very soon as our press screener is this tomorrow, Thursday, February 16, and our spoiler-free review will be posted on Friday, February 17. Honestly, with a press review embargo lifted weeks ahead of its U.S. release, that's usually a great sign of a good movie the studio is confident in.
LOGAN releases in the U.S. on March 3.
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