In The Wolverine fans saw some the X-Man’s greatest lovers and villains for the first time on the big screen. Logan’s adventure in Japan saw the introduction of Mariko, Yukio and Viper but the big surprise was seeing Jean Grey.
Famke Janssen reprised her role as the telepathic and telekinetic X-woman and Logan’s lost love. Director James Mangold tells I Am Rogue why he chose to bring Jean into the story:
“Jean Grey I wanted to bring in because I wanted Logan in his isolation at the front of the film to have someone to relate to. So the idea that his only real ongoing relationship is with a bear and with a ghost image of a women he loved gave him something to relate to. Movies play when characters interact. When you find a character like we find Logan, lost, a drift, emotionally bereaved, dark, grieving in the Yukon, you need to somehow get him doing something otherwise you’d need voiceover for fifteen minutes. So the idea we had was to use Jean Grey as a central force in his life and what he is grieving over is having had to kill her in the previous adventure. My first real contribution was to relocate the Claremont/Miller story after the X-Men film trilogy. There was to me a reason that he left the world behind. That reason being that then when my film opens, the X-Men are gone, Professor X is gone, Jean Grey is gone, they are all dead, and Logan is unhinged in a way without a connection to anyone. We used Jean Grey as a kind of haunting of the connections that he had that have gone away.”
Hugh Jackman plays Logan again in X-Men: Days of Future Past in May 2014. While most of the cast of the original X-Men trilogy appear in the film, Janssen and James Marsden (Cyclops) are not listed in the massive cast but I’m hoping Scott and Jean will have a cameo.
The Wolverine arrives on Blu-ray December 3rd.
By Editor
