This is Why Logan Didn’t Open With That Heartbreaking Scene

Logan has been hailed as a one of the best movies in the X-Men franchise, as well as a great final movie for Hugh Jackman to take on the role as Wolverine.

For most people, everything about the movie is already great—so much so that it earned a rightful Noir version run in theaters. However, for some, there was that lingering scene that really didn't get any closure beyond the slight revelation during Charles Xavier's attacks—that the X-Men are dead.

Some who may not have been following the comics on which the film was loosely based on, this came as a baffling surprise. But originally, this shouldn't have been the case. Speaking to IGN, director James Mangold originally wanted to include an opening sequence where the death of the team members would open the film.

"I literally had written an opening which started with that sequence. And so it was quite literal, who was dead. But the reason we didn't do it wasn't to spare other films, it was that it redefined the movie. It made the movie about the X-Men, instead of being about Logan and Charles."

The decision to remove the scene and have it as a hovering incident slowly revealed was based on the goal of putting the focus on the older mutants, instead of the tragedy of the demise. He describes it as "something hovering like a shadow in the background," and one that we get to feel in every scene that Charles has an attack thereon.

Even the reveal was subtle enough, a decision that Mangold consciously made. Then again, there were changes made to the Old Man Logan comics, the biggest of which was that the accidental killer wasn't Charles, but rather Logan himself.

True, this would've made "more sense" in that non-comic book readers are not lost as to why they were on the run and why Charles was in hiding. But leaving out the deaths even add to the kind of pain that Charles was probably feeling due to his degenerative brain disease—the inability to really remember what happened and atone for them.

Logan is already available on Digital HD and will be out on Blu-Ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD this week.

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