| James Mangold Explains Why LOGAN Takes Place In 2029 |
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| Thursday, 19 January 2017 09:37 |
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Tracking Fox's X-Men timeline, Charles Xavier graduated from the University of Oxford in 1962. If he's the average graduate age of 22, that would make him 89 in 2029. Across Professor X's 67 years adventuring as the leader of the X-Men, the team's exploits somehow became public knowledge as evidenced by the comic book Wolverine remarks as being sensationalized in Logan's final trailer.
What happened to the rest of the X-Men to leave Professor X and Wolverine hiding on the Mexican border? The setting and atmosphere of Logan is a far cry from the hopeful and triumphant tone of X-Men: DoFP's epilogue. Five to six years seems like a relative short time for such a drastic change to occur but James Mangold felt that was enough of a time skip to give himself room to tell his take on the Old Man Logan storyline from Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.
"It's year 2029 when the movie takes place," James Mangold told ComicBook.com. Read more: https://www.comicbookmovie.com/x-men/james-mangold-explains-why-logan-takes-place-in-2029-a148298 |
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