November 22, 2024

XMF • the SUPER

Celebrating The Continuing Legacy Of X-Men Films • Covering Our Most-Anticipated Genre Film And TV Projects

20th Century

James Mangold on Wolverine’s return, and the LAURA film that never materialized.

20th Century

Appearing on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, LOGAN director James Mangold talked (18:01 mark) about Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine in DEADPOOL 3: “It’s not like the new movie Hugh and Ryan [Reynolds] are working on takes place after ‘Logan,’ so in a sense they’re just making a prequel, if you will.” He also shared (20:02 mark) how far along the LAURA spin-off film with Dafne Keen was in development before Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, canceling various X-Men projects like GAMBIT and new trilogies for X-MEN and THE NEW MUTANTS: “I never had a script, I started working on a story; but I don’t think of that as a universe – I just loved the character.”