Welcome to Logan week!
The second trailer for Logan, Hugh Jackman's final outing as the Wolverine has arrived. It's a sweary, gory R-rated but also extremely emotional ride, giving us a better look at Laura Kinney (aka X23) as well as the poignant family dynamic between her, Logan and Professor X.
To celebrate it's launch and the upcoming release of what looks like one of the most exciting films of 2017, Digital Spy is dedicating a whole week to all things Logan.
Yep every day we're going to be bringing you stone-cold exclusives from the upcoming movie including all new video, interviews and access.
To kick us off, Digital Spy caught up with director James Mangold for an exclusive chat where he broke down the trailer for us scene by scene. We've included rough time stamps for your reference.
(James Mangold directs Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine)
The film is set in 2029 and in case you were wondering, the song from the trailer is from an album called A/B by Kaleo.
00.19 Laura attacks a store clerk
"Dafne Keen was 11 years old when we were shooting. She's a remarkable kid. Her parents are actors, and she's kind of a very modern kid. Very physically capable. Incredibly gifted as an actress. I mean, it was a huge risk for Fox to allow me to make a movie where the third point of the triangle was built upon someone so young.
"It was a worldwide search to find someone who was bilingual because I wanted a Latina kid – one who was between 10 and 12, and was a credible child. I didn't want a young woman in the movie; I wanted it to be a kid, and to feel like a kid.
"The movie is very much built around themes of family. So I really wanted to have every generation represented.
"She's an 11-year-old girl equipped with all the volatility, instability, mood swings, shadows and potential violence of our hero."
00.38 Logan finds Laura's X-Men Comic
"It's not a real comic. For copyright reasons, we had to make new ones. We used original period X-Men artists to do it, for instance Joe Quesada did those covers.
"This was an idea that I had with Scott Frank, my writing partner, that Logan and Charles and any other remaining mutants in the future would be living under the weight of their own legacy and celebrity – much like sports stars and heroes and astronauts and movie stars live under. And that it would be really interesting to examine what it's like to be a superhero in twilight, living under the weight of the exaggerations and truths of what's been told and said about you.
"So all of those things lived in our universe – comic books, action figures, all of it. It's all vintage in the future point of our movie, but it's a kind of legacy that is both something, for some of the characters they're proud, and for other characters it's a kind of noose around their neck."
00.47 Logan cuts himself on his own claws
"We find him in a state of extreme disrepair. He's sick. I think the movie will reveal how exactly he's ill, but the idea is that we find him in a state much like the examples I was just saying.
"What is it like for a sports star or an astronaut when your knees start to give out and your elbows creak and it's harder to get out of bed and you have dizzy spells and you feel weaker and you're self-medicating with drugs or alcohol? This is kind of the reality he's living under, at this point in the movie.
"What's actually happening is his claw is stuck. So he's pulling a claw that is jammed out."
00.55 Cyborg Donald Pierce comes for Laura
"He has a relationship with the institution that made Laura. He's been sent to retrieve her along with his team.
"Boyd Holbrook is just a fabulous actor. I wanted this film to feel intimate and real and truthfully acted, and I wanted very much to break away from the kind of bloated feeling I've gotten from a lot of comic-book movies.
"As the genre of comic-book movies has settled into a kind of normalcy in our world, certain default settings have become very normal. One of them is a very operatic, less committed style of acting to me, as well as a kind of general bloat in terms of the actors… even when they're doing quite great work, they're overwhelmed by the scale and cacophony of what's going on around them.
"Meaning, it's very hard to carve out an intimate space in a lot of these movies because there's so many characters, so much plot, so much of the movie is filled with wall-to-wall action.
"We really were conscious of trying to push hard against what has become a kind of formula. Even if, in some ways, that formula is beloved for people, we just felt: it's time to do something different."
01.15 Laura attacks Pierce's team
"Laura trained hard and, like Hugh, was working out every day, and was learning fights and tumbling and all of that stuff. A great deal of it is her.
"In many ways, it has to be. The other interesting thing is, it's a lot harder to double an 11-year-old kid. [laughs] It's not like there's a lot of little people or stunt people. It's a lot of a trickier proposition, so you need to figure out how to get everything you can out of them."
01.22 Logan has a good swear. There's lots of gore.
"After we finished the last Wolverine movie, I really set about laying out what would be interesting for me to do one again.
"One of the things I felt we were up against, both in terms and depiction of violence, was rating. Both Hugh and I went to the studio and said we'd make the movie for less. He took a pay cut to do it. That was all fairly persuasive to them on one side.
"It's really hard – harder than it is with guns or lasers or anything else, where you have a character, a lead character, with blades. It becomes much more difficult to do action and get under the ratings bar.
"There's kind of a bias towards guns in the MPAA. The bullet is essentially invisible. There's a perception that it's less violent to be shot than stabbed. That's why you see so many PG-13 movies with relentless gunfire, because somehow, you can vary how much blood you see and mow down as many people as you want to.
"We actually don't have such a high body count in many ways, but we were trying to say, 'Let's see what it would really look like to have a hero with these blades let loose.'"
01:44 Introducing Dr Zander Rice
"He's the puppet master behind Pierce and the Reavers, and has a much larger role in the sense that he's actually the kind of brilliant mind that is trying to grow mutants. "
01.56 Logan, Laura and Charles have a nice dinner
"I think the movie is very picaresque. It is a road picture. So what's lovely is you watch our heroes move from extreme jeopardy into moments of safety and repose where they can gather themselves, and they meet new characters. There's just a wonderful journey and an incredible array of characters that they come upon along the way.
"This is one of the more pleasant and heartwarming respites they have along the way."
02.23 "She's 11 and I'm f**king 90!"
"Our Charles is a very sweet character in this film. I think he's always been an incredibly sweet character. With the addition of his own physical fragility in this movie, he becomes an incredibly powerful paternal figure in the movie. Logan is more of a reluctant one, I think you can easily guess.
"But I think there's a lot of heart all around. That's the other thing audiences can expect, and I think I expect of myself. Which is just, I'm not trying to deliver – and have no intention of just making – a bloodfest."
Logan opens on March 1 in the UK, and on March 3 in the US.
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