Although 20th Century Fox attempted to fix much of the continuity issues in the X-Men franchise with X-Men: Days of Future Past, the last two instalments – X-Men: Apocalypse and Logan – threw another spanner in the works by featuring two different versions of the character of Caliban.
Fans have wondered if this was supposed to be the same character, or perhaps two different people who just so happened to share the same name, look and abilities. Well, James Mangold has now explained just how Caliban ended up in both movies, and rather hilariously, it seems that no one at Fox realised that both Apocalypse and Logan planned to use him until it was too late.
“It’s a funny, messy story of how so often these things actually are not as coordinated as everyone thinks,” said Mangold in an interview with Nerdist. “I actually had written him into our movie, and they didn’t know in Apocalypse, and then they kind of wrote it in their movie, and then they cast someone in their movie, and I had not seen it and was working away on mine.”
Brilliant.
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In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Logan reunites Hugh Jackman with The Wolverine director James Mangold and also stars Hugh Jackman, Boyd Holbrook, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen, Eriq La Salle, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Elise Neal.
Originally published March 11, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
