Logan is a American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the titular character. The film was designed to look like it takes place in the near future, with slight updates to technology and the social environment, and written with a dark and violent tone closer to the Western than the traditional superhero genre.
Principal photography began in Louisiana on May 2, , and wrapped on August 13, , in New Mexico. The locations used were mainly in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi.
The film was praised for its action scenes, emotional depth, performances, and Mangold's direction, becoming the best-reviewed film in the X-Men franchise. It was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of , and nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards , becoming the first live-action superhero film to be nominated for screenwriting.
In , no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing, slowly poisoned by his adamantium skeletal grafts. Working as a limousine driver in El Paso, Texas , he and the mutant tracker Caliban take care of the elderly Charles Xavier , in an abandoned smelting plant in northern Mexico. Xavier suffers from dementia that causes him to have destructive telepathic seizures, one of which killed several of the X-Men years prior.
After finding Gabriela dead, Logan is confronted by Donald Pierce , a Transigen's cyborg chief of security, who was the one who killed her, and was looking for Laura, who has stowed away in Logan's limo and has powers similar to his. Pierce tortures Caliban into tracking Laura. Xavier and Logan watch a video on Gabriela's phone, revealing that Transigen created Laura and other children from mutant DNA to become weapons.
