One way or another, we highly doubt that hell stay dead. Everything you need to know about the messy xmen timeline after dark phoenix the real elephant in the room is the new mutants, a horror film set in the xuniverse starring. With logan out of the way, weve got new mutants, deadpool 2 and xforce to look forward to. The next xmen movie will be a doover of the worst xmen. Four ways wolverine could return after logan spoilers. The last stand and origins are, in my opinion, the worst of the bunch, with xmen being an okay movie that just hasnt aged all that well. Will we see a continuation of lauras story, and if so, will she still be played by dafne keen. Theres only one superhero that has been a constant of the film genre for the entirety of the 21st century. Since the acquisition of the studio by the house of. Josh boone the fault in our stars is directing the new mutants movie.
Logan ending explained breakdown recap and whats next for. Xmen is an american superhero film series based on the fictional superhero team of the same name, who originally appeared in a series of comic books created by stan lee and jack kirby and published by marvel comics. But the ending of logan still has several questions. Oscar isaac plays the first mutant ever, apocalypse, who awakens in 1983 after being entombed in ancient egypt. Xmen is an american superhero film series based on the fictional superhero team of the same. Somber, mature, reflective and destructive, logan arguably could be called the best xmen movie, period.
Dont try to remake another movie in the style of brian singers other xmen movies, you already have deadpool and logan, deadpool 2 will add cable and domino to the mix, and theres an xforce movie on the horizon thatll probably tie in to this. The movie that really messed everything up was xmen. Boone cowrote the film with knate gawley, scott neustadter, and michael h. New mutants is already complete with a trailer out, deadpool 2 and xmen. And after seeing logan, another xmen movie that juggles the weight and consequences of extreme violence is something we want to see.
Will there be other xmen or wolverine movies after logan. Xmen movies to watch before logan comes out next month. Logan was more like saying goodbye to the original era of the xmen films. Going into logan, i was more annoyed by the fact fox were using another version of caliban less than a year after we met a version of the character in the 1980s set xmen. The movies have mostly been out of order, the original trilogy took place after the first trilogy, a few movies changed the timeline completely, and at least two movies were curiously out of time. Well, it turns out that logan doesnt necessarily follow the same timeline that was established in days of future past. Heres how all the xmen movies fit together, by order of the events that. Days of future past essentially wiped out the continuity of the original movies, there has been talk that the next xmen movie will be set in the 90s as well. After a relatively lowkey year for the xmen movie franchisethe violent, brilliant logan being the only xadjacent film to come out this year2018 is going to be a straightup xplosion. To date, most xmen features have been straightup blockbuster action movies, but writerdirector josh boone is taking a hard left turn with his. Logan is being called masterful by both critics and fans, and its poised to make a killing. But even with those 3 being called out, they are by no means.
Whether that has resulted in characters appearing much earlier than possible in their soft reboot, or retconning deaths of characters without explanation, fox has done. But when laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety. In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary logan leads a quiet life. With hugh jackman, patrick stewart, dafne keen, boyd holbrook. Xmen fans got some good news tuesday when logan director james mangold confirmed to the hollywood reporter that he has been working on a script that. How a logan sequel following x23 could revive the xmen. The last stand opened lower than their predecessor and didnt set opening records. The fate of the xmen is unclear, especially after the latest installment in. Will there be other xmen or wolverine movies after logan, xmen. The xmen movies havent been good to make movies in a chronological order.
He might be gone for a while, but a longterm xmen franchise without him seems highly improbable. Logan sees hugh jackman bow out as wolverine, so whats next for the xmen movie series, including deadpool and will tom hardy take over the iconic role. After the success of deadpool and logan, should and can the xmen cinematic universe find success by becoming a darker, more adult alternative to the mcu and. James mangolds logan is the definitive wolverine movie. Wolverine is by far the most popular character within the xmen universe. If xmen created a template for the modern superhero movie, x2 more accurately feels like what weve become accustomed to over the last decade. This article contains light spoilers for logan since its inception and well through its continued installments, the xmen franchise is long been criticized for the continuity between the films or rather, the lack thereof. All the xmen movies in chronological order screen rant.
Believe it or not, after dark phoenix there are still more xmen movies on the way. The filmmaker revealed that logan takes place 5 years after the events of the xmen. Deadpool 2 does quite a lot to establish xforce, a team of heroes with a rather more brutal ethos than the xmen, who are set to get their own movie at some point in the coming years. If you havent seen the movie yet, this will spoil the ending. With logan marking the probable end to foxs xmen franchise, questions now arise regarding the future of one of the most successful superhero movie franchise in hollywood. Not only did the movie take a far grittier and intense approach than prior xmen films, almost acting like a modernday western, as well as become only the second xmen film to garner an rrating after the smash hit deadpool, but logan was the final time hugh jackman played the most popular member of the team, wolverine. The xmen movie timeline is a much more confusing one than the mcu. With the arrival of logan in theaters, an era of film history has come to an end. In 2029, logan and charles xavier meet a young girl named laura, a testtube daughter of.
Patrick stewarts future with the xmen franchise after logan. Get a closer look at the xmen comic featured in logan. Logan has been marketed from the beginning as the last ride for wolverine, and hugh jackman has been open about how this is his final xmen movie though, if. I agree that fox should so a reboot, but it should be a soft reboot. The more thoughtful logan, meanwhile, showed an older wolverine.
After an absence of five entire years, james logan howlett, the wolverine, is back in action. It highlighted everything that was great about hugh jackmans interpretation of the. All xmen movies in chronological order updated imdb. Days of future past because it altered the timeline. While the laurax23 spinoff talk started immediately after logans release, it has been a consequential seven months in the comic book movie world, notably for projects looking to tout female. Days of future past prologue, which is set in the year 2024, with the director stating that setting the movie. Marvel entertainment produced the next installment, the new. Dark phoenix, though effectively the last movie to be released in this cinematic universe. Apocalypse, we assumed that the traditional xmen ensemble would get. These were just a few of the teams that were operating, which could see fox use faces from the old movies.
Logan is hugh jackman and sir patrick stewarts swan song after his 18 year career as wolverine. Boone and lee first began work on the film after boone completed the fault. But i have made the list the way i think people should see it. The next one will be a completely different kind of horror movie. Apocalypse, logan and dark phoenix has taken place during this new timeline. This week, a longawaited event has struck the marvel universe. After seeing that, fans immediately speculated about who the next xmen franchise villain would be.
Hugh jackman is back as wolverine, though not the one audiences first met in 2000s xmen. With the marvel cinematic universe dominating pop culture, it can be. After a nearly twocentury and nine movie lifespan, the nearlyimmortal xman proved. Samuel brace on the future of the xmen universe logan was the wolverine film we have all been waiting for. Since the first xmen film brought marvels mutants to the big screen in 2000.
Next year we have new mutants, deadpool 2, and dark pheonix. With such a jumbled mess, here is a look at the xmen movies in chronological order, at least based on the years the fictional stories took place in. Two years after the release of logan, disney bought fox, seemingly throwing the current xmen movie universe into potential disarray. Set in the year 2029, the film finds logan living an isolated life near the mexican border where he cares for the former leader of the xmen, charles xavier. How logan fits with the other xmen and wolverine movies spoilers. Dark phoenix are shooting now, and both xforce and gambit.
Generation next was led by shadowcat and colossus, while astonishing xmen was led by rogue. I agree with the gist of your things but not all of your points. Endgame became the highestgrossing movie ever, marvel studios head kevin feige announced the next films and tv series that. This post contains spoilers for dark phoenix, avengers. After logan, audiences were left curious about the future of the xmen franchise. After logan saves the day, he wakes up back in 2023 at the xmen.