LOGAN Director James Mangold Explains Why He Removed Jean Grey Reference

LOGAN Director James Mangold Explains Why He Removed Jean Grey Reference

Logan was set to feature a big reference to Jean Grey and James Mangold has now revealed why he decided to drop it from the film. It will, however, be included on the Blu-ray as a deleted scene!

By JoshWilding - May 23, 2017 05:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Logan
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Logan is a very good movie, but when it comes to its place in the X-Men Universe, it's hard to figure out where to put it. The movie referenced releases which are no longer supposed to exist and failed to really match up with the events of newer Wolverine adventures like X-Men: Days of Future Past.

One of the deleted scenes on the Logan Blu-ray features a reference to Jean Grey. When Kathryn Munson (Elise Neal) asks Logan (Hugh Jackman) if he's married, Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) says he was married to Jean Grey and killed her. It's not made clear just now confused he is about what happened during the mysterious Westchester Incident or the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, but a director's commentary from James Mangold sheds some light on why he decided to cut that. 


"I felt it really brought the emotion down and dark in a moment when things were feeling very hopeful at this house. This was something we had written only a part of and then improvised. I like the moment in isolation a lot, but when cut into the movie it had a powerful effect of damping that moment and kind of making the Munson family seem a little strange for keeping them there." 

Do you think this scene should have been left in Logan? Share your thoughts in the comments section.
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CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 5/23/2017, 5:40 AM
Charles: he killed his girlfriend

Logan: time for me to hit the dusty trail.

Thats why, it would be awkward and the family would not trust them.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 5/23/2017, 5:41 AM
it could've worked imo but still a wonderful movie
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 5/23/2017, 5:42 AM
Is it possible the timlines are confusing xaviers brain? I mean logan remembers john howlett and all that. But his mind can heal.
Forthas
Forthas - 5/23/2017, 5:43 AM
Logan's interactions with the other X-men are integral to who he is, so i find it strange that it was such a small part of the story narrative and they were simply alluded to. Wolverine was introduced to audiences in an X-men movie. This is symptomatic of how they sacrificed the potential stories of other X-men characters to highlight that of only one...Wolverine!
Luminus
Luminus - 5/23/2017, 5:45 AM
It's a giant continuity flaw, that's why. Didn't they go over this, before the movie was released? I remember reading something like that.
Origame
Origame - 5/23/2017, 5:50 AM
@Luminus - I always considered this an outside timeline story. I mean, it makes sense since the source material was an elseworlds style story anyway. Plus considering they will definitely continue the X-men franchise even after the date in the movie, and they will totally still use Wolverine eventually, this was a goodbye to the actor from the role.
naxes
naxes - 5/23/2017, 11:11 AM
@Luminus - How I put it their are 2 X-men universes...Stewart Xavier universe and Mcavoy Xavier Universe...I put this one in the Stewart Xavier universe
Luminus
Luminus - 5/23/2017, 10:01 PM
@naxes - There are 3 X-Men Universes, actually. It can't be in the Stewart Xavier v2 universe, if they included that scene, because Jean was never killed in that one. It would have to be in the Stewart Xavier v1 universe, except that universe is overrun by Sentinels. So, including this scene would create a v3 of the Stewart Xavier universe, unless Xavier is just remembering everything Logan told him at the end of Days of Future Past and confusing it with the new reality.
SwiggitySw00ty
SwiggitySw00ty - 6/3/2017, 4:44 AM
@Luminus - Xavier read Logan in DOFP and saw him killing Jean.
Luminus
Luminus - 6/3/2017, 11:30 PM
@StanLee - Well, there's that.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 5/23/2017, 5:46 AM
I'm glad they dropped it. In fact, aside from the Sabertooth scene I haven't seen or heard about anything Mangold decided to cut that would have improved the story.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 5/23/2017, 5:51 AM
@RorMachine - Not disputing the story.

But that kid making the guy commit suicide, that would have been awesome.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 5/23/2017, 5:56 AM
@LordBillCipher - Oh yeah that was a cool scene too.
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