Killing Wolverine Was an Easy Choice for Logan Director James Mangold

After almost two decades of playing Wolverine in the X-Men franchise, Hugh Jackman's tenure as the iconic Marvel mutant came to an end in 2017's Logan, which saw our hero perish from wounds sustained while protecting young Laura (aka "X-23") and other mutant children from the Reavers. It's a decision that director James Mangold, who also helmed 2013's The Wolverine, says was logical. Comicbook.com spoke to Mangold, ahead of its upcoming Logan Watch Party, and he explained "The process is a lot less of a committee than you'd think. It was really Hugh [Jackman] and I at first. It seemed logical, that if it were going to be his last film, that he's either going to ride off onto the horizon or die, that you need to have some kind of curtain on his story." "You either have the Shane ending where he rides off on the mountain to parts unknown," he added, "which had largely been the way his character was resolved in every preceding movie, or you'd kill him." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=best-superhero-directors-cuts-you-can-stream-now&captions=true"] "The reason the choice was at our feet was because you needed the sense of closure," Mangold continued. "You needed some sense of an ending if you were going to end, if you were dealing with the legacy of Hugh's many performances and many films, and trying to set this part in some definitive way." Mangold's The Wolverine wound up on our short list of Best Superhero Director's Cuts that you can now stream, along with Zack Snyder's Watchmen, The Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past and more. A few weeks back, we dug up Hugh Jackman's first filmed audition and screen test for 2000's X-Men for a loving look back at the actor's Weapon X legacy. In other comic book movie news, Zack Snyder's cut of Justice League is headed to HBO Max in 2021 after Warner Bros. spends around $20-30 million to complete hotly-anticipated project. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/21/justice-league-the-snyder-cut-official-hbo-max-announcement"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

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