(Note: This article contains spoilers for the first few minutes of Deadpool and Wolverine.)
It is clear from the first seconds that the five screenwriters of this summer’s big superhero blockbuster Deadpool and Wolverine knew that they had a Logan Problem. The literal title of her film (not to mention the aggressive advertising campaign) made it clear that X-Men Star Hugh Jackman, by the nature of things, had to undo at least some of the impact of the ending of James Mangold’s Oscar-nominated coda to Jackman’s run as Canada’s favorite sting-and-grunt movie; otherwise, everything from the ampersand on down would have been a problem. If you’ve seen the film, you know that Ryan Reynolds and his team of co-writers tackled the problem in typically over-the-top fashion Dead Pool Fashion, having the big-mouthed mercenary first dig Logan’s body out from under that ominous cross and then use it to beat a bunch of thugs to death while dancing around to NSYNC.
One of the screenwriters of LoganMichael Green, has spoken out about the new film – and he says he sees the launch as a “huge compliment”. Green, who was promoting his show, Blue-Eyed Samuraitalked about Deadpool and Wolverine with IGN this week when he said he was “warned” about the beginning of the film. Laughing, Green admits, “I didn’t know they would go that far,” making it clear that he thought the film was enormous fun. He also suggests (not inaccurately, in our opinion) that the aggressive energy with which the film Logan is a kind of compliment, a way of saying that the film he co-wrote was too good to ignore. (He also joked that he was just glad the film didn’t have Green Lantern Jokes, since he was one of the co-writers of that particular Ryan Reynolds superhero debacle.)
Green is now co-writer and director of LoganJames Mangold, has not has not yet commented on the film; he had previously expressed his disappointment that Jackman was returning to the role, while admitting that “they’re going to try to squeeze as much liquid out of that rag as possible. I don’t measure my success by a film like Logan with the question whether we had finished the conversation. I finished My Conversation.”
