The painting "Logan" by James Mangold was a real breakthrough in the world of film comics. The touching, but at the same time cruel story about the old age of the retired Wolverine did not leave indifferent virtually any viewer. When you watch this film, you understand that the director, screenwriters and actors of the movie "Logan" in 2017 did a great and high-quality work on it. In this article, we will consider the plot and characters of this film comic strip. It’s worth mentioning right away that the article will be talking specifically about the Logan painting, and not any other. Due to the similar name to the movie “Logan’s Luck” (2017), whose actors and creators have nothing to do with the tape described in the article, some may get confused and find not what they were looking for.
Plot
This picture is the official farewell of Hugh Jackman with the role of Wolverine. Before we move on to reviewing the characters and actors of the 2017 Logan movie, you need to know the plot of this film.
Far future. The X-Men team has been around for several years now, mutants have ceased to be born, and the famous hero of Wolverine, who has counted dozens of feats, is forced to lead a quiet life and somehow make ends meet. Professor Xavier is in a worse position : the brain of a powerful telepath in his old age was struck by Alzheimer's disease, which is why he is gradually losing his mind. From time to time, when he does not take medicine, he begins to have uncontrolled telepathic seizures that can kill all nearby living things. Perhaps Logan would have continued to exist relatively calmly, caring for Xavier and waiting for his own death, if not for one case that turned his life upside down ...
What happened?
Once, a former Wolverine met a little girl named Laura Kinney. In appearance, an inconspicuous child turned out to be a mutant with almost the same qualities as Logan: adamantium claws, increased regeneration and incredible rage that she experiences when someone is going to harm her ... As it turned out after a while, Laura was a clone of the main a hero. She and many other artificially raised mutant children were planned to be used as a detachment of brutal killers, but at a certain point everything went wrong, and experimental “rabbits” fled from their creators. The initiator of such inhuman and inhumane experiments was the scientist Zander Rice. The cruel and cynical psychopath is going to regain the children who, as he thinks, rightfully belong to him. The only person who can save Laura is Logan, but only he is not in a hurry to take up the old again ...
The film "Logan" (2017): actors and roles
The plot of the picture has already been considered, it's time to talk about the characters. Below is a list of actors from the 2017 Logan movie, as well as the roles they performed.
- Hugh Jackman - Logan. The central character in the picture, a mutant, is a former Wolverine superhero. Everyone knows Logan as a strong, hardy and almost invulnerable hero, able to recover at an incredible speed, but in this picture he appears in a completely different way. He is very old, he has a deep depression, and his body is killed from the inside by toxins secreted by the metal adamantium. In addition, old age made itself felt: regeneration is already far from as fast as before, and the release of claws quite often becomes a problem ...
- Patrick Stewart - Charles Xavier. A powerful telepath, a former director of a school for gifted adolescents, and now an old man with unstable mental health. Xavier and Logan are the only members of the X-Men team that survived to 2029. Like Hugh Jackman, another actor in the Logan movie of 2017, Patrick Stewart is a long-liver of the X-Men series, which appeared in the very first film about mutants.
- Daphne Keen - Laura Kinney. Mutant and illegally created clone of Logan. She was rescued from the clutches of villains by nurse Gabriela. Together with Logan, he is looking for a place called "Eden", in which other guys who have escaped from Rice should gather.
Minor Characters
- Stephen Merchant - Caliban. A mutant and roommate of Logan, who helps him look after a sick professor. Caliban’s main ability is that he can locate other mutants. He has a weakness: contact with ordinary sunlight is very harmful to his skin, because of which he must always hide in the shade and cover his body with clothes from head to toe.
- Elizabeth Rodriguez - Gabriela. Nurse working for the main villains. Learning about the experiments her employers are conducting, the woman secretly takes Laura away and tries to save her.
Antagonists
- Richard E. Grant - Zander Rice. The central villain and a brilliant scientist who creates mutants as a living weapon.
- Boyd Holbrook - Donald Pierce. Rice's henchman who preys on Logan and Laura. He does not have any superpowers, but he has good firearms and has a cybernetic arm.
Now you know about who took part in the filming of one of the most unusual movie comics in recent years. Once again, we were talking about the characters of the picture "Logan", and not about the actors of the film "Lucky Logan" of 2017.