Donald Pierce is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character is depicted as a cyborg and is commonly an enemy of the X-Men .
200-537: Donald Pierce appears in the 2017 film Logan , portrayed by Boyd Holbrook . Donald Pierce first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #132 April 1980, and was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne . Pierce's name and appearance were modeled by Byrne upon Donald Sutherland . The character's last name comes from Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce , Sutherland's character in the 1970 film M*A*S*H . Donald Pierce
400-561: A Film Promotion Law that took effect on March 1, 2017. Nevertheless, the film is still trimmed by 14 minutes, totaling 123 minutes. It is very likely that the move was due to usual censorship by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television , because of the violence depicted. Despite such restrictions, the film managed to debut with a better-than-expected $ 48.9 million, including previews, according to data from Ent Group (Fox reported $ 46.3 million). This marked
600-453: A box claiming that it is filled with slot machine parts bound for Macao. The Reavers check the limousine wreckage and find that Albert and Elsie-Dee are not there. Donald Pierce is a cyborg originally with four artificial limbs which provide him with superhuman strength . His speed, reflexes and agility are also inhumanly high, attributes which are derived from his replacement extremities. His body has great resistance to damage and even if it
800-557: A centuries-long grudge. It is revealed in the series S.H.I.E.L.D. that Apocalypse, at some point in the days of ancient Egypt, joined forces with the Brotherhood of the Shield to successfully fend off a Brood invasion. Also present were Imhotep and a man who was either the moon god called Khonshu or his first Moon Knight avatar/champion. As the millennia pass, Apocalypse travels around planet Earth, convincing civilizations that he
1000-565: A century earlier than planned due to the arrival of the time-traveling mutant Cable (ironically, Cable had traveled to this point in time hoping to prevent the ancient mutant from awakening). Apocalypse decides the Earth is ready for further examination and testing. He grants superhuman powers to the terrorist known as Moses Magnum , who then tests the X-Men and the Avengers . Apocalypse later briefly employs
1200-431: A choice: either immediately ascend as Apocalypse and kill the Brotherhood as revenge for the death of "Uncle Cluster", or let the rest of X-Force die at the Brotherhood's hands to avenge the death of the original boy En Sabah Nur and to prevent X-Force from killing Evan the way they killed Apocalypse and Archangel. Daken offers Evan a suit of Apocalypse's Celestial armor to do with what he will, secretly planning to control
1400-400: A clone of the child which Askani created. Apocalypse plans to transfer his consciousness and power into the clone's stronger body, but perishes in combat with the (real) teenage Nathan. Nathan grows up to become the warrior Cable (while his clone grows up to become the mutant terrorist known as Stryfe ) and travels back to the past to prevent Apocalypse's future domination of the planet. In
1600-499: A commonality with comic-book art. Mangold highlighted "Strong foregrounds, playing things in depth: you have to make an image say more within that one image." Using the image of Logan at a funeral as an example of his stylistic logic, Mangold concluded by mentioning the aspects within modern filmmaking, primarily everything in close-up format. For Logan , his aim was to set frames that are descriptive, and evocative of comic-book panels and classical filmmaking. Logan premiered at
1800-471: A corporate farm. Rice unleashes X-24 , a mindless clone of Logan in his prime created as Transigen's ultimate weapon. X-24 murders Will's family and Xavier before capturing Laura. Caliban sets off grenades, killing himself and several Reavers but only injuring Pierce. Logan is outmatched by X-24, but Will pins X-24 with his truck before dying from his injuries. Logan and Laura escape with Xavier's body. After burying Xavier, Logan passes out. Laura takes him to
2000-412: A crossover Deadpool film, urging fans to "convince Hugh" and campaign online. In January 2017, Reynolds and Jackman spoke about the proposed project; Jackman stated, "I'm hesitating, because I could totally see how that's the perfect fit. But the timing may be wrong." Jackman later stated that he would not reprise the role for a team-up film, specifying that he "knew two-and-a-half years ago that [ Logan ]
2200-533: A cyborg called Death. Warren Worthington regains his identity and helps his friends defeat Apocalypse, adopting the new codename Archangel. Apocalypse escapes with his new recruit, the Morlock called Caliban , while X-Factor then takes his Celestial spaceship as a base. During The Evolutionary War , the High Evolutionary plans to rid the Earth of those he feels are preventing evolution. Believing this disrupts
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#17328768042022400-533: A deal would indeed allow the X-Men related characters to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During press for The Greatest Showman in December 2017, Jackman denied that he would reprise the role if the acquisition occurred. He stated that while he noted the irony and felt some initial disappointment upon learning the news, he planned on standing by his decision and wanted to see another actor portray
2600-515: A destroyed New York City and soon discovered that at some point Apocalypse had risen and what remained of Earth after his ascension became the Omega World, a huge structure composed of bubble worlds. The ones who survived the Great Trials lived on Omega World under Apocalypse's rule as he functioned as the Omega World's heart, keeping it alive, while his Horsemen functioned as its antibodies, cleansing
2800-591: A doctor and persuades him to prove that the site in North Dakota is not Eden. There, they find Rictor and other Transigen children preparing to cross into Canada. Laura finds an adamantium bullet that Logan has kept since he escaped from the Weapon X facility, which he once considered using to commit suicide. Logan decides not to accompany them, to Laura's dismay. When the Reavers ambush the children, Logan takes an overdose of
3000-742: A few miles further down King Boulevard there was an elaborate set built with a toppled water tower, that would be used for exterior shots until June 27, 2016. On August 11, 2016, it was reported that the production of Juarez were in the process of seeking worn out cars to work on an upcoming scene filmed on August 12, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Principal photography was confirmed to have ended in New Mexico on August 13, 2016, with an altered shooting schedule occurring from May 2 to August 13, 2016. Post-production began subsequent to filming closure on August 23, 2016. Film editor Michael McCusker
3200-411: A few panels at the end of one of Jackson’s last X-FACTORs, so I am the first artist to use him extensively in stories. And I kind of juiced up his physique a bit." Bob Harras said on the character of Apocalypse: He looked fantastic. Also, the name is dynamic. It tells you right off this character means trouble. And he came with a clear-cut agenda: ' survival of the fittest .' He didn't care if you were
3400-406: A field trip to Genosha 's remains. Hoping to sway the boy into becoming Apocalypse, the Brotherhood reveals to him that he is a clone and tells him of X-Force's assassination of the child En Sabah Nur from which he was cloned and the falsehood of his life under the tutelage of Fantomex . After the Brotherhood reveals that they have killed Fantomex and further tortures Evan, Daken tells En that he has
3600-529: A gigantic monster, that the Eternals are forced to battle. Apocalypse is confronted by his centuries-old foe, Ikaris, who now is a Prime Eternal . Although Apocalypse defeats Ikaris, the Eternal still succeeds in destroying his ship and thwarting his plan. Supposedly lost diaries of the mutant seer Destiny surfaced, telling of twelve beings that could defeat Apocalypse once and for all. Various mutants, all listed in
3800-405: A great experience. I'm really proud of The Wolverine (2013)." Later in the month, Mangold announced that the pre-production aspect of the film had not yet begun, nor the writing process, though he furthered this by stating, "... I would say I'm not there yet. But I have taken finger to key. Let's say that. There's been typing. And ideas. And talking amongst all the principles." Shortly after
4000-533: A kind of celebrity, or like a sports star long past your heyday, was really interesting for me to investigate with this kind of world." Panosian made 10 fake comic book covers, and interior arts were unused. He pointed that the arts had to resemble the style used in the Bronze Age of Comic Books , and pointed out that they also served to contrast their campy style with the darker tone of the live-action film itself. He said that "The colors and art itself juxtaposed against
4200-574: A limited theatrical run in U.S. theaters, an event set to begin on May 16, 2017. Mangold stated that Logan was shot as a color film with the awareness that it would play well as a black and white film. The film was re-graded and timed shot by shot for the Noir edition. This version of the film is included on the Digital HD release and also included in the DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack. Logan grossed $ 226.3 million in
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#17328768042024400-464: A loose adaptation of the " Old Man Logan " story he had written in 2008, something that was hinted at earlier by Jackman. In October 2016, the title of the film was announced as Logan . In January 2016, Jackman confirmed that Mangold had a full screenplay, albeit not complete. The following month, Liev Schreiber expressed interest in returning to portray Victor Creed / Sabretooth , with Jackman himself mentioning Mangold's vision to Schreiber. After
4600-492: A more violent, adult X-Men film that weekend. Furthermore, 96% said they were excited to see Hugh Jackman, 94% were intrigued to see Patrick Stewart reprise his role as Professor X, and 76% were interested in watching newcomer Dafne Keen. In its second weekend, the film dropped 56.9%, grossing $ 38.1 million and finishing second at the box office behind newcomer Kong: Skull Island ($ 61 million). In its third weekend, it made $ 17.8 million, finishing in third behind Beauty and
4800-446: A mutant—if you were weak, you would be destroyed. He was merciless, but his philosophy was easy to grasp and it fit in with the harder edge of evolution which is part and parcel of the mutant story. Isn't that what humans fear about mutants? That they are the next step? Now, we had given mutants something new to fear: a character who would judge them on their genetic worthiness. [...] To his own mind he wasn't evil (despite his leadership of
5000-533: A not yet formed team of X-Men and killing one of their number. Pierce himself recruited this team using an image inducer to pose as Cyclops (the X-Men's leader). His reasons for recruiting these mutants as "X-Men" are not entirely clear, however, it appears that his primary focus is to eliminate the Hellfire Club's current Lord Imperial Roberto da Costa and former New Mutants allies. He also hires Ink to deliver Dani and Blindfold to him, misleading him. Following
5200-481: A really important relationship but I want to see signs of that quasi-father/son sort of relationship that has not been seen before, and sides of particularly Professor X that have not been seen before." Jackman spoke of Mangold's plan to start filming the next year, though he expressed uncertainty as to filming locations. Also in September, Mark Millar , creative consultant for Fox, confirmed that Mangold's film would be
5400-625: A result, the comic book covers and pages seen in the film were made specifically for it, by writer Joe Quesada and artist Dan Panosian . Mangold commented that "The reality was that, like in Unforgiven , when [Clint] Eastwood runs into Richard Harris, who's writing these fictional accounts of the great Western heroes, or Pat Garrett in Billy the Kid , where you've got these aging heroes who kind of are twilight versions of their own legends — I think that idea, of being
5600-593: A sense of self-loathing due to his cyborg status, referring to himself as "only half a man". He is the CEO and principal shareholder of Pierce-Consolidated Mining, and operates out of a mining and laboratory complex in Cameron, Kentucky. Pierce and his mercenaries kidnap Professor X and Tessa in a plot against the Hellfire Club and X-Men , but he is defeated by the Professor despite a device shielding against telepathic attacks. Pierce
5800-465: A serum given to him by Rictor that temporarily enhances his healing abilities and boosts his strength. With Laura's help, he slaughters most of the Reavers before the serum wears off. As Pierce holds Rictor at gunpoint, Rice tells Logan, who killed Rice's father years ago at the Weapon X facility, that no new mutants have been born due to genetically engineered crops created by Transigen and distributed through
6000-527: A shadow cabinet organization that intends to conquer the planet. The New World Order in turn set the Juggernaut and the Absorbing Man against War, but both are easily defeated. Hulk comes to his senses after injuring his friend, Rick Jones . Despite this apparent setback, the incident was still a victory for Apocalypse as it was a successful testing of newly understood Celestial technology. Apocalypse activates
6200-450: A significant disconnect between it and those who grew up listening to Michael Kamen , John Ottman , and John Powell 's X-Men scores, because Beltrami's Logan is just so different from anything we have heard in a super-hero movie before. On the one hand, this is commendable; bucking expectations and taking an entirely new approach to a well-defined musical genre is not an easy thing to do, but that's exactly what Beltrami has done here. On
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6400-491: A small boy with no memory of his previous incarnation. The boy was named Evan Sabahnur. In 2012 the adult, villainous version of Apocalypse returned in the series Uncanny Avengers . His origins are further explored in the storyline " Apocalypse Wars ". In 2019, writers Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard expanded upon Apocalypse's origin and agenda in the Excalibur series and the X of Swords event. Apocalypse's 'survival of
6600-471: A tomb in Akkaba, recalling: Across the world—helpless mutants slaughtered. Pogroms. Horror. ...Something has woken me from my slumber. Once, a sudden surge in worldwide mutant power stirred me from a similar sleep. Now—a plummet in global mutant capacity—has opened my eyes. Apocalypse finds himself on a planet with its mutant population reduced to a fraction of what it had been, only a few hundred remaining out of
6800-424: A very different sort of X-Men from the four movies that I've already done." By April 2015, Michael Green had taken over screenwriting duties, with Mangold still actively overseeing the script development process. In September 2015, Jackman spoke of the writers being halfway through the script, and that the story would delve into the relationship between Wolverine and Professor X, to which he added, "I think it's
7000-465: A villainous mad scientist , and Stephen Merchant had also been cast. In May, Eriq Lasalle and Elise Neal were cast supporting roles, and Elizabeth Rodriguez entered negotiations for a small but key role. Also in May, producer Simon Kinberg revealed that filming had already begun, and confirmed that the movie would be R-rated ; regarding the setting and tonality, he stated, "It takes place in
7200-539: A voice: " We cannot let you die. Not yet. It is time Apocalypse… it is time ". During the " Dark Reign " storyline, Quasimodo researched Apocalypse for Norman Osborn and states that he would be unsuitable for Osborn to use in any long-term plans. Apocalypse's followers, the Clan Akkaba , manage to bring about Apocalypse's return, albeit in the form of a child they will indoctrinate. Upon learning of Apocalypse's return, X-Force seeks to kill him, but when they discover he
7400-570: A young boy, En Sabah Nur is very generous and selfless, to the chagrin of Baal. A time-displaced Evan Sabah Nur and All-New X-Men Beast try to save En Sabah Nur, but he allows himself to be captured to help them escape. Around this time, the time-traveller Kang the Conqueror arrives in Egypt and assumes the identity of Pharaoh Rama-Tut . Knowing who En Sabah Nur is fated to become and where he is, Rama-Tut sends his General Ozymandias and an army to destroy
7600-608: A younger version of the character portrayed by actor Harry Lloyd . Nonetheless, Stewart would go on to portray the character again in the MCU film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , where he played a variant of Charles Xavier who was the leader of the Illuminati before being killed by Wanda Maximoff . In April 2016, Fox decided not to showcase its upcoming movie releases, including Logan , at Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con , as
7800-526: Is "the only one who won't care" and he agrees to share with Dust the secret information he has about teammates. He tells Dust that Ink is the mystery "non-mutant" among them, which is later discovered by the rest of the team. Also, he subtly says that three will die soon, referring to Boom Boom , Hellion and Surge , who were captured by the Sapien League and injected with a strain of the Legacy Virus . It
8000-587: Is a deity (inspiring different myths as a result) and manipulating them into fighting wars. He justifies that this encourages "growth, judgment, and destruction". Apocalypse's progeny become the Clan Akkaba . Apocalypse encounters the near-immortal human offshoot race known as Eternals , primarily the members Ikaris and Sersi , who refer to him as their "Ancient Nemesis". At different points, Apocalypse uses his Celestial technology to enter periods of suspended animation , leaving Clan Akkaba and Ozymandias to act in his stead. In AD 1013, Apocalypse seeks to destroy
8200-561: Is a child, Psylocke decides to protect him, believing they can rehabilitate him and train him as a force for good. To the shock of the rest of the team, Fantomex fatally shoots the child. In a 2011 storyline, as X-Force succeed in stopping the Deathloks inside the World , the home of all Weapon projects, it is revealed that Ultimaton , guardian of the World, is keeping watch over an incubating young boy labeled En Sabah Nur, aged 847 days. During
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8400-566: Is captured. 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. The children proved challenging to control and were to be executed, but Gabriela and other nurses helped some escape. Xavier reveals to Logan that Laura was created from Logan's DNA and calls her Logan's daughter. In Oklahoma City , Logan discovers that Eden appears in Laura's X-Men comic and tells her it
8600-403: Is confronted by Bonebreaker and the Reavers. Pierce arrives to prevent the lobby from being wrecked. Taking Albert on a tour, Pierce states that he has been upgrading his operations with the help of a 3D Printer. When Pierce stated that Elsie-Dee is not here and that previously appearing asking to have the self-destruct mechanism disarmed, Albert retaliates while claiming that Pierce doesn't own
8800-785: Is destroyed, as long as his head is intact he will probably survive. Before and after securing some of Cable's technology from the future and incorporating it into himself, he boasted a wide cadre of skills and abilities, such as generating a shocking plasma current through his cyborg limbs or hurling it as electrical force over short distances. His bionic body once hosted adamantium as an outer shell which further bolstered his resistance to damage. He also boasts bionic optics which feed into his Technarch mind to memorize and relay information, giving him an eidetic memory and photography vision. Pierce can plastically morph his arms into weapons like skeins, cannons, pincers, finger missiles and razor claws; likely through nanotechnology. His elongated nails can channel
9000-405: Is directed by James Mangold , who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Green and Scott Frank from a story by Mangold. In addition to Jackman, the film also stars Patrick Stewart , Richard E. Grant , Boyd Holbrook , Stephen Merchant , and introduces Dafne Keen in her film debut as Laura. The film was designed to look like it takes place in the near future, with slight updates to technology and
9200-511: Is eventually cut loose from the Inner Circle, left to plummet to his death from an escaping helicopter. Ironically enough he would later find refuge in one of Cable's old safe-houses, whose futuristic resources and databases he would use in reconstructing his damaged body, making himself a new cybernetic shell out of solid Adamantium he stole from another cyborg's secret cache. When Logan and Jubilee happened upon his machinations thanks to Gateway,
9400-426: Is fictional. The Reavers arrive, but Xavier has a seizure that incapacitates everyone except Logan and Laura, who kill the attackers and inject Xavier with his medication. As they flee, Dr. Zander Rice , the head of Transigen, arrives to help Pierce. Logan, Laura, and Xavier help farmer Will Munson and his family after a traffic incident, accepting an offer of dinner at their home, where Logan drives off enforcers from
9600-528: Is handed over to Tessa of the Hellfire Club, expelled from the Inner Circle, and taken to a secret holding facility in one of Shaw Industries' Kentucky installations. Many months later, Pierce is violently liberated from the holding facility. Though his rescuers are never explicitly identified, he resurfaces alongside three members of the Reavers , a band of cyborg criminals which Pierce claims to have built and assembled, and which had recently been all but wiped out by
9800-518: Is held captive by Genesis, who attempts to restore Wolverine's lost adamantium skeleton and turn him into a Horseman as a gift for Apocalypse. Wolverine breaks free and kills Genesis along with nearly all of the Dark Riders. Genesis had built a sarcophagus with Apocalypse's likeness (which is empty, since Apocalypse had already revived ). After a long healing slumber, Apocalypse, fully restored, awakens with Ozymandias at his side and quickly learns of
10000-482: Is later revealed in the origin story Rise of Apocalypse that he is possibly the first mutant (meaning, in this case, a human being born with the X-gene), born 5,000 years ago. The character gained greater popularity in 1995 when the storyline " Age of Apocalypse " featured an alternate timeline in which Apocalypse has conquered much of planet Earth. The character was reincarnated in the pages of Uncanny X-Force #1 as
10200-519: Is left critically injured and later needed to be hospitalized, Shaw is able to punch off Pierce's head. Pierce later is forcibly recruited into the Purifiers ' ranks and infected with the Technarch transmode virus. Being under the control of the mutant-hunting robot Bastion , he shows his mutant target: the newly formed Young X-Men . He appears in a nightmare of the precognitive mutant Blindfold , battling
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#173287680420210400-496: Is left unknown if this Apocalypse was actually a future version of Evan or Apocalypse himself using a new host body. Apocalypse was kept at X-Haven, inside a cell specially built to contain him by Forge , and later after again retrieving Colossus, Forge tried to find a way to cure him by reverse engineering Apocalypse's powers but failed. During the World-Eater's attack on Limbo, Nightcrawler agreed to free Apocalypse in exchange for
10600-579: Is one of the world's first mutants , and was a principal villain for the original X-Factor team and later the X-Men and related spin-off teams. Created by writer Louise Simonson and artist Jackson Guice , Apocalypse first appeared in X-Factor #5 (June 1986). Apocalypse is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe where he is the husband of Genesis and the father of the original incarnation of
10800-512: Is rescued by Baal of the Sandstormers who sees the child's potential power and will to survive. Baal names him En Sabah Nur, which Marvel translates as "The First One". The Sandstormers live by the credo of survival of the fittest , believing that only those who are strong enough to survive hardship and direct conflict are worthy of life. It is also revealed during the Apocalypse Wars that, as
11000-615: Is revealed that the list of mutant targets Callahan had the Reavers go after were the likely holders of what was the last component needed to upgrade the Sentinel Squad One unit. Havok, having had it in possession since the moral inversion, traded it for the Reavers' help, learning too late that the final piece was a nanite-coded module fashioned by Bastion that enables any machine to adaptively assimilate and incorporate any new technology into themselves. A deadly new modification which Pierce's forces put to horrifying use as they assimilated
11200-478: Is sorry that he will not live to witness the decimation of the mutant race. Cyclops eliminates him with an optic blast. Donald was seen alive again with the rest of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle on a pleasure cruise reserved for super criminals and cabals. He along with his compatriots were seen at a gambling den aboard the vessel as the Avengers Unity Division were searching for The Red Skull across
11400-452: Is successful, Apocalypse's aim for unlimited power is not and he attempts to complete the transformation by warping reality into various scenarios (see Ages of Apocalypse ). Apocalypse hoped to lure the Twelve into empowering him with their energy, but eventually, the mutants realize their true predicament and Apocalypse teleports away. An amnesiac and powerless cyborg Cyclops regains control of
11600-422: Is unknown if he still has his original brain or if he uploaded his memories, intelligence, and thought engrams into a cyborg computer brain. As a member of the Reavers, he often wore body armor. During his indoctrination into Bastion's Purifiers Donald was also modified with a Transmode Virus infection that made him subservient to the killer A.I.'s command code. While he hasn't shown any mechamorphing abilities of
11800-402: Is what Evan is at the school to discover. Deathlok then tells Wolverine that Evan has great potential and may be a great savior, or a conqueror. After being called Kid Apocalypse by Kid Omega , Evan begins learning about Apocalypse and is saddened that he himself looks like the villain, raising the possibility of a future that Evan rejects. After saving Angel and discovering that he possesses
12000-597: The 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17, 2017, in Berlin, Germany , where it was selected to be screened out of competition alongside The Bar , Final Portrait , The Midwife , T2 Trainspotting , and Viceroy's House , before screening in the United States , where it was given a wide release on March 3, 2017. In October 2015, Fox confirmed that Logan would be released in
12200-535: The Alliance of Evil to capture the mutant Michael Nowlan, who can boost the power of other mutants. This plan brings Apocalypse into direct conflict with the first incarnation of X-Factor, when the team comprised the original X-Men. Apocalypse then recruits mutants to serve as his personal guard, known as the Four Horsemen . Among them is Angel, AKA Warren Worthington III , whom Apocalypse has corrupted and turned into
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#173287680420212400-628: The Asgardian Thor , who he knows will cause him trouble in the future, according to information obtained from Rama-Tut, yet the plans are foiled by Odin . In the 12th century, Apocalypse encounters the Eternal Sersi again while awakening latent mutant powers in a crusader named Bennet du Paris, also known as Exodus . In 1459, Apocalypse defeats Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) in Romania, who later becomes
12600-498: The Guinness World Record of the 'longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero'. During an appearance on The Dr. Oz Show in May 2015, Jackman clarified the confusion over the conflicting sentiments by stating bluntly that the film would be his final portrayal of the character. In an interview with Willem Dafoe on Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Jackman revealed that Jerry Seinfeld helped convince him to quit
12800-514: The Horsemen of Apocalypse . Since his introduction, the character has appeared in a number of X-Men titles, including spin-offs and several limited series . Apocalypse has also been featured in various forms of media . Oscar Isaac portrayed the character in X-Men: Apocalypse . While writing the first five issues of X-Factor , Bob Layton dropped hints of a villain operating behind
13000-577: The IMAX format. In the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the film was preceded by a short film, Deadpool: No Good Deed . In it, Deadpool notices a man getting robbed, and springs into action—but first has to change into his costume in a phone booth. As he is finishing up, the man is shot; the short film ends with Deadpool commenting on the strangeness of the phone booth's presence, and eating
13200-603: The Office of National Emergency . The mutant related activity hating General Robert Callahan had Pierce run a couple of missions for the mutant crimes task force bureau on the false promise of freedom and much-needed system overhauls. With the latest acquisition of Miss Sinister however, General Callahan revealed the duplicity by triggering remote fail-safes installed during the Reavers' refitting. Pierce and select members of his crew were forced to impart their technologies and mechanical skills into building up Callahan's mutant-hunting gear,
13400-660: The third-highest-grossing R-rated film at its release. Jackman and Keen reprised their roles in the 2024 film Deadpool & Wolverine . In 2029, 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 mutant tracker Caliban take care of 97-year-old 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
13600-404: The " Old Man Logan " comics storyline by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven , follows an aged Wolverine and an extremely ill Charles Xavier who must defend a young mutant named Laura from the Reavers led by Donald Pierce and Zander Rice . The film is produced by 20th Century Fox , Marvel Entertainment , TSG Entertainment and The Donners' Company , and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It
13800-527: The 2012 storyline " Dark Angel Saga ", it is revealed that Apocalypse had fathered a son with Autumn Rolfson and she kept this a secret from Apocalypse out of fear of what he would do to him. At the end of the storyline, it is revealed that Fantomex creates a clone Apocalypse which he helps raise to the age of a teenager in an artificial world, where the clone knows Fantomex as the kindly "Uncle Cluster" who taught him to use his abilities for good. The boy, code-named Genesis, helps X-force fight Archangel and when
14000-468: The Adamantium casing after Cylla Markham had cracked it open using a Molecular Rearranger, to which after a lengthily battle with the X-Men, Pierce and the others were rounded up and deposited into the care of Alpha Flight , as their attempt at grave robbery happened upon Canadian soil. Due to lack of resources and proper jurisdiction however, Pierce and the rest of the Reavers were eventually turned over to
14200-607: The Alliance of Evil, which I think we dropped pretty soon after Apocalypse's introduction); he believed he was doing the right thing. He was ensuring evolution. To me, he was the perfect next step in the mutant story. Although the character first appeared in 1986, he was retroactively said to have been present during previously published stories. The unnamed benefactor of the Living Monolith in Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (1985)
14400-520: The Apocalypse of modern man and the father of what humanity will come next – Mutantkind. Where Magneto sees mutants as the next step of evolution and strives to protect all mutants, Apocalypse believes in absolute survival of the fittest – so if the Hulk, for example, is stronger than [the X-Men's] Colossus... well, in Apocalypse's world he would say, 'Bye, bye, comrade.' Harras also commented, "As soon as I saw
14600-519: The Beast ($ 174.8 million) and Kong: Skull Island ($ 27.8 million). In its fourth weekend, it made $ 10.1 million, dropping 43.1% from the previous week and finishing 5th at the box office. Logan was projected to open as high as $ 105 million. However, US forecasters believed that it could post an even higher opening if it were to overperform in major markets—most notably China. It opened day-and-date in almost every major market except Japan, where Doraemon
14800-542: The Clan Akkaba in revenge for his defeat at Apocalypse's hands, forcing the Clan to revive their master from suspended animation. Apocalypse defeats the vampire again, this time with help from Abraham Van Helsing . Eventually, Apocalypse enters hibernation again, expecting to remain so for possibly two centuries, by which point mutants should be more common on Earth. After many years of suspended animation, Apocalypse awakens nearly
15000-768: The Ferriday Plaza Shopping Center, while a portion of U.S. Route 425 between Ferriday and Clayton would be closed for a five-day period in connection with Fox's production. On June 1, 2016, The Concordia Sentinel revealed that Sicily Island High School and a house in Sicily Island would be used in the production, while a crash scene would be shot on U.S. Route 425 just outside of Ferriday. Producers Kinberg, Shuler Donner and Parker chose to film in Ferriday, Louisiana , because of Concordia Parish 's beautiful countryside and green cornfields. On June 16, 2016, Juarez
15200-569: The Hellfire Club's inner circle. In one such botched expedition involving the mutant time traveler Cable , he was believed to be flash incinerated when he, Shaw and a guide leading them through another of the first mutant's lairs unleashed a techno-organic entity created by the mutant overlord in the past. All managed to survive unscathed, save for Pierce himself whose injuries further cost him much of his remaining flesh, revealing his head to be his only remaining fully organic component. Due to his constant failures and Shaw's general contempt of him, Pierce
15400-578: The Hellfire Club). He is a college graduate in geological engineering and business administration, and is an accomplished strategist and business administrator. Pierce is a fair hand-to-hand combatant, but mainly relies on his cyborg strength and is more prone to letting others fight his battles for him rather than fight on the front lines. In later publishing after coming under the services of the Office of National Emergency, Pierce as with all of his Reavers gained
15600-525: The Inhuman Royal Family, attacks Apocalypse's lunar stronghold. Although Apocalypse is severely defeated, the young Nathan is infected with a techno-organic virus and is sent to the future with a woman named Askani to be cured. In the future, Apocalypse has conquered the Earth and ruled until the 39th century. By this time, Apocalypse's body had grown feeble: he becomes aware of the young Nathan's presence in this time, but only succeeds in kidnapping
15800-509: The Master of Magnetism. Intending to start an all-out war between the humans and the subterranean-dwelling Deviants as part of his plan to test the strong, Apocalypse sets off nuclear warheads at Lemuria , causing the Deviants to further mutate (which also restores Ikaris' father Virako to life). Apocalypse launches an attack at San Francisco , using a mentally controlled Deviant, Karkas , now
16000-522: The Movie 2017 was released. Fox ultimately decided to postpone the film's release there in order to avoid competition. Through Sunday, the film exceeded expectations and posted a five-day opening worth $ 159 million from 81 markets. This is Fox International's third-biggest launch of all time, behind X-Men: Days of Future Past ($ 172 million) and Avatar ($ 164 million). It debuted at No. 1 in 80 markets, surpassing Fifty Shades of Grey ($ 156 million) to have
16200-452: The Reavers cover all the entrances there to make sure Albert and Elsie-Dee do not leave Madripoor. The Reavers bring a high velocity railgun in. During Albert and Elsie-Dee's fight with Kimura's men, Kimura stops the attack and informs Albert and Elsie-Dee about the ambush. As Kimura's limousine fools the Reavers into thinking that Albert and Elsie-Dee hijacked it and fire the railgun on it, Kimura smuggles Albert and Elsie-Dee out of Madripoor in
16400-587: The Reavers in an attempt to get them back, only to be killed by them. Logan (film) Logan is a 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the titular character . It is the tenth film in the X-Men film series , the third and final installment in the Wolverine trilogy, following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013), and a standalone sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). The film, which takes inspiration from
16600-525: The Reavers, Kimura, the Jade Dragon Triad, and the Vladivostok Mafia to take action against Albert vowing that Albert will never make it out of Madripoor alive. In downtown Madripoor, Pierce and the Reavers are traveling through the vacant streets as they state that Albert and Elsie-Dee will have to travel through the Vladivostok Mafia's turf before they can engage them. Arriving at Madripoor Airport,
16800-468: The Reavers, but the Sentinels accompanying Fitzroy to electrocute him. Despite his seeming demise, he later resurfaces, starts an anti-mutant hate group, and enlists several members; revealing a plot to take militant terrorist actions against mutants and thwarted by the X-Men, he is beaten by Wolverine in hand-to-hand combat. Very little of Pierce's human tissue remains, which explains how he was able to survive
17000-453: The Sandstormers and find the young Apocalypse. En Sabah Nur and Baal are injured and seek refuge in a cave. Before he dies, Baal reveals advanced alien technology hidden in the cave, left behind by the deity-like aliens known as Celestials . Vowing revenge on Rama-Tut, En Sabah Nur enters the Pharaoh's city posing as a slave and draws the romantic attention of Ozymandias's sister, Nephri. On seeing
17200-572: The Squad Sentinels, turning them into new bodies for their penultimate use. With the ultimate augmentation in tow, Pierce and the now giant mech-upgraded Reavers move out to attack the X-Mansion , showing off their extravagant techno-morphing upgrades as they take and receive damage in battle. But they are soon undone by the mutants they believed to have double-crossed and destroyed back at the 22 base. Dazzler , after having absorbed Sean's shriek after
17400-428: The Technarch, he has shown the ability to simulate Scott's optic blast power while disguised as him. Aside from his physical advantages, Donald Pierce is a genius in robotics, cybernetics and electronics. In these fields he has developed technology that exceeds that of conventional science by approximately two centuries. He is also a seasoned leader with vast financial and human resources (a prerequisite for membership in
17600-514: The UK, Logan made $ 11.4 million during its opening weekend, beating The Lego Batman Movie to reach the number one spot, while also achieving the second-highest opening weekend of the year, behind Sing . Meanwhile, in India, the film debuted with an estimated 17 crore ($ 2.5 million) net, equating to a gross of $ 3.4 million, on 1,400 screens. According to Fox, that was the highest debut for any X-Men title in
17800-470: The US and Canada were revised upwards from $ 55 million to $ 80 million or even higher. Fox, however, predicted an opening in the mid-$ 60 million range. Some critics said the film's R rating—the second such for a X-Men film—might hinder the film's mass appeal. Two days before the film's release, ticket selling site Fandango reported that the film was outpacing all previous X-Men movies (except Deadpool ) at
18000-494: The United States and Canada and $ 392.7 million in other countries for a worldwide gross of $ 619.2 million, against a production budget of $ 97 million. Worldwide, the film had a global debut of $ 247.4 million from 82 markets, as well as the second-biggest R-rated IMAX debut, with $ 20.6 million from 1,068 screens. The film grossed $ 440.9 million in its first 13 days of release, surpassing the entire theatrical gross of The Wolverine ($ 414.8 million). Predictions for its opening in
18200-464: The X-Men leave through the Siege Perilous , they manage to capture only Wolverine whom they torture and crucify . During this time, Pierce develops a romantic attraction towards Lady Deathstrike but the woman is disgusted by Pierce's arrogance and spurns him, and Wolverine is rescued by Jubilee and the two mutants go into hiding. Pierce tracks the two down, but is incapacitated by Jubilee. Assuming
18400-636: The X-Men years prior. Logan reluctantly agrees to escort Gabriela López, a former nurse for biotechnology corporation Alkali-Transigen, and a young girl named Laura to Eden, a supposed refuge near the American-Canadian border . After finding Gabriela dead, Logan is confronted by her killer Donald Pierce , who is Transigen's cyborg chief of security. Pierce is looking for Laura, who has stowed away in Logan's limo and has powers similar to his. She, Logan, and Xavier escape from Pierce and his Reavers , but Caliban
18600-409: The X-Men. The four of them ally with Lady Deathstrike and three Hellfire Club mercenaries (Cole, Macon, and Reese) who were cybernetically enhanced by Pierce. Under Pierce's leadership, the new Reavers are dedicated to exterminating mutants, with highest priority given to the X-Men and Sebastian Shaw (CEO of Shaw Industries). The Reavers take over the X-Men's headquarters in their absence, but after
18800-496: The ability to cyperpathically possess and/or assimilate any piece of engineered conveyance he can get his hands on. Effectively rebuilding and bulking himself up from any and every automated fabrication around him, I.E. commandeering a Sentinel for a new body or turning a truck into an arm cannon. In the Age of Apocalypse , Pierce was the leader of the Reavers, a band of human assassins enhanced by Apocalypse's techno-organic virus. Thanks to
19000-414: The ability to see the essence of those he looks upon, Evan asks him to tell him what he sees when he looks at him. Angel tells Evan he sees only goodness inside him, which makes Evan happy, so he thanks Angel for being a good friend. In fact, Angel lied, as the only thing he could see was the dark image of Apocalypse. A new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants , led by Wolverine's son Daken , kidnaps Evan during
19200-576: The astral plane, Apocalypse removes the captive Franklin Richards , greatly weakening Onslaught. The plan succeeds, but is interrupted by the Invisible Woman , who had invisibly accompanied the pair, having suspected Apocalypse's motive in wanting to actually kill her son. However, the reprieve in battle gave Onslaught the time to escape, prolonging the conflict. Following the events of the Onslaught saga,
19400-461: The attacker to a limited degree. He also boasted rocket powered flight capabilities, enabling Pierce to fly at unknown speeds for prolonged extents of time. He also has an Image Inducer to disguise himself with, used for infiltration purposes like moving undercover through the Xavier Institute as Cyclops for a time. He even boasts a personal teleporter device of his own design for quick escapes. It
19600-537: The battle is over, Fantomex enrolls him in the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. In Wolverine & the X-Men #4 (March 2012), Evan Sabahnur a.k.a. Genesis is admitted as a student to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, where his classmates notice his resemblance to Apocalypse. En is worried when a visiting Deathlok , who reveals to the students their likely futures, shows reluctance to do so with Evan. When Evan presses him, Deathlok informs him that this
19800-451: The character in future films. In spite of his adamancy, Reynolds confirmed that Jackman would reprise his role as Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) on September 27, 2022. Slated for release on July 26, 2024, the film will see the characters integrated into the MCU. The following month, Jackman elaborated that he wanted to return to the role after watching Deadpool , but since Logan
20000-425: The character of Logan, while in terms of storyline, he explained that nothing had been decided as of yet. Jackman concluded by highlighting that the success of the script development would determine whether Jackman would return at all: "I haven't signed on. I'm genuinely at that point where unless it's better than the last one I'm not going to do it. I think it has to be better. I can still see where we can improve on
20200-411: The character of Wolverine until his death. In July 2015, Jackman posted an image of Logan giving the middle finger with a claw to his Twitter . The image, coupled with the hashtag "#OneLastTime", signified that the film would be his last appearance as Logan and officially announced his decision to stop playing the character he had been portraying for the past 17 years. Eventually it earned Jackman
20400-592: The combined combatants. In the energy released when the Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom use the combined power of order and chaos spells to suppress the Red Skull's personality in favor of the sliver of Professor X's that still exists in his brain, Evan ascends to adulthood, stepping out of the rubble with a looming, muscular body and the presence and appearance of Apocalypse. Deadpool even comments on how changed Evan is. When Havok and Cyclops argue with Steve Rogers and
20600-458: The coming events. Cable with the Avengers battles the Harbinger, but are unable to stop it. Apocalypse then appears, activating a bomb inside the Harbinger intended to destroy all of New York, but Cable manages to prevent this disaster. When Magneto is disrupting Earth's magnetic field , Apocalypse sends a Skrull impersonating the mutant Astra (having dealt with the original Astra) to stop
20800-527: The commentary to X-Men: Apocalypse , director Bryan Singer had stated that his film's post-credits scene would directly connect with the on-screen debut of X-Men antagonist Mister Sinister in Logan . In January 2017, Mangold stated that the character – a genetic manipulator and surgeon – would not appear in this film. However, the DNA from several mutants, including Logan, in that film
21000-672: The confrontation with the Young X-Men, his face is scoured by Dust . With face's synthetic skin restored, he is kept captive by the Young X-Men. Ink is allowed to stay on the team and despite contention from Rockslide , later apologizes to Blindfold for working for Pierce, who remains in X-Men captivity. Pierce and Dust have frequent conversations while he is imprisoned, despite his vocal hatred of mutants and derogatory remarks toward Dust's faith in Islam , noting that his attitude reminds Dust of home. While they talk, Dust admits to Pierce of dying, as he
21200-515: The culture now, that's not just the same style—how many times can they save the world in one way or another? How can we construct a story that's built more on character and character issues, in a way as if it almost wasn't a superhero movie, yet it features their powers and struggles and themes? — James Mangold , on the development and approach of Logan In November 2013, 20th Century Fox initiated discussions over another solo film starring Wolverine, with James Mangold in negotiations to write
21400-426: The electrical energies he generates into them increasing his cutting edge. There is nothing left of his original human body, save for his head, which was given fake flesh and bone structural appearance through a synthetic skin hiding a robotic skull underneath. As such he is immune to psionic infraction thanks to various brain implants for telepathic resistance, also having the ability to turn psionic assaults against
21600-507: The end, Apocalypse's horsemen are lost, Ozymandias betrays him, and he is forced to retreat by a combined assault of the X-Men and the Avengers. Ultimately, it is discovered that the Celestials lent their technology to Apocalypse, requiring as payment greater sufferings later . He attempts to embrace death as an escape from his lifelong pact, only to find himself instantly resurrected and hearing
21800-620: The father of Surge , he was part of the HLF's base in Tokyo, which had targeted Project Genesis, a plan of Emperor Sunfire to forcefully mutate baseline humans. Donald Pierce appears in Logan , portrayed by Boyd Holbrook . This version is the leader of Zander Rice 's Reavers , chief of security for the corporation Alkali-Transigen, and Laura 's handler who claims to be a "fan" of Logan . After Laura and several mutant children escape from Transigen, Pierce leads
22000-496: The father of mutantkind. In his early years, which I covered in the X-Factor Forever miniseries... Apocalypse encountered the Celestials and realized there was a time when humanity might be judged unworthy and destroyed. Consequently, he's been using Darwinian principles – survival of the fittest – to kill off the weak and force the survivors to grow stronger, to push humanity to get better and more powerful. He considers himself
22200-579: The fight against the mutants. One such clone began operating under the codename " Goodnight " and infiltrated the Hellfire Club, becoming a great friend of Sebastian Shaw. The general public and Club members think he is in fact a mutant. In the House of M , Donald was a member of the Human Liberation Front, one of the many human resistance groups labeled as terrorists by the House of M . Alongside Seiji Ashida,
22400-456: The film is set "before" Logan and would not retroactively contradict Wolverine's death. As for the other principals and their prospective futures; although Patrick Stewart had stated that Logan would be the final time he played the role of Professor X, he later said that he would be willing to return to the role in Deadpool 2 or Legion . Though Legion 's producers considered casting Stewart, they ultimately chose to utilize
22600-587: The film scored the biggest Wolverine movie opening, the biggest R-rated March opening, the fourth-biggest March opening weekend behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($ 166 million), The Hunger Games ($ 152.5 million) and Alice in Wonderland ($ 116.1 million), the fifth-largest X-Men opening, and the fourth-biggest R-rated opening weekend overall (ninth in terms of inflation adjusted) behind Deadpool ($ 132.4 million), The Matrix Reloaded ($ 91.7 million) and American Sniper ($ 89.2 million). This made it
22800-402: The film's release, it was revealed by Jackman that originally the script had the character play a role in the film, but that Sabretooth was excluded from the final screenplay. By April 2016, Mangold had chosen Boyd Holbrook to portray the main antagonist of the movie, the chief of security for a global corporation that is pursuing Wolverine. Also by April, Richard E. Grant was cast as
23000-476: The fittest' mentality was revealed to have had the aim of preparing the mutant population for a dangerous reunion with the long-lost mutants of Arakko , which included his wife and four children, the original Horsemen of Apocalypse. The being who would later be called Apocalypse is born with the mutant X-gene thousands of years ago in Aqaba . Because of his grey skin and blue lips, his people abandon him as an infant. He
23200-455: The future, and as you and others have reported, it is an R-rated movie. It's violent, it's kind of like a western in its tone. It's just a very cool, different film." The film included some vintage X-Men comic books, used both to advance the plot and as a metafictional reference. The director clarified that Marvel Comics allowed this on the condition that they could use actual characters and designs, but not use any real comic book issues. As
23400-559: The gamma-spawned powerhouse, the Hulk and his human alter ego, Banner, are split into two separate entities: Hulk now draws upon energy derived from Franklin Richards' pocket universe . Apocalypse recruits the Hulk to become his Horseman, War, with intentions of using the Hulk's nexus-energy to overcome the Celestials . To test this newest recruit, Apocalypse set War against the New World Order,
23600-582: The girl's mind every memory of the ordeal. Deadpool loudly refuses and to Evan's surprise, he hugs him and tells him to stay in school. During the 2014 " AXIS " storyline, Evan is one of many mutants captured by the Red Skull on the island of Genosha. During a fierce battle between the Avengers, the united X-Men, as well as a group of villains who all attempt to defeat the Red Onslaught, Evan assists Kid Omega in preventing Red Onslaught's telepathy from affecting
23800-401: The highest international opening weekend for an R-rated film. It broke the record for the biggest R-rated IMAX release ever and the biggest 2D IMAX opening, with $ 10.6 million on 687 screens. China is the movie's best-grossing market outside America, contributing $ 106 million in box office. The film was the first to feature an age-restriction warning in its marketing material, as required by
24000-584: The highest opening weekend for a 2017 film at the time of its release, surpassing The Lego Batman Movie ($ 53 million). It was also the biggest R-rated opening weekend that did not take place on a holiday. Additionally, Logan achieved the fifth-highest opening weekend for any 20th Century Fox film, trailing only behind Deadpool ($ 132.4 million), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith ($ 108.4 million), X-Men: The Last Stand ($ 102.7 million) and X-Men: Days of Future Past ($ 90.8 million). About 8.2% of
24200-484: The inversion. At the conclusion of the storyline, Evan is shown on the run with Deadpool. During the "Apocalypse Wars" storyline, the Extraordinary X-Men travel thousands of years into Earth's future in order to rescue Colossus and his team of young mutants after they were investigating the sudden appearance of six hundred new mutant signatures in Tokyo. Arriving into Earth's future, the X-Men found themselves in
24400-531: The inversion—convinces Apocalypse that now is the time to be heroic, proclaiming that nobody liked En Sabah Nur but everyone appreciated Evan, as he represented the hope that nurture could beat nature. Inspired by Deadpool's words, Apocalypse turns on the X-Men and the Avengers, allowing the Astonishing Avengers (along with non-inverted heroes Steve Rogers and Spider-Man ) to retrieve the White Skull and undo
24600-454: The last one. I love the intimacy of that story, I liked the small stuff, I liked that it was a little unexpected." In February 2015, Patrick Stewart spoke of discussions about the third Wolverine film, centering around a team-up between Jackman's Wolverine and himself as Charles Xavier, with Stewart stating to Marc Mohan that "... we have been talking about a Wolverine movie, which would team Hugh Jackman and myself together ... That would be
24800-531: The latter had nanotech parasitically hot-wired by Skullduster, let out a massive photokinetic pulse blast which stunned the Reavers and totaled their Sentinel bodies, putting them down for the count. Eventually O*N*E would show up taking both Havok and the Reavers back into their custody. During the Iron Man 2020 event, Albert was directed by Tyger Tiger to Reavers Universal Robotics (Pierce's company) in Madripoor and
25000-490: The man's ice cream. The teaser met with positive reviews. Ryan Reynolds posted an extended version of the teaser via his YouTube channel the day after the film's release. Prior to the confirmation that the then-untitled Logan would be his final appearance in the X-Men film franchise, Jackman initially denied such rumors. Jackman stated that he was inspired by Michael Keaton 's performance in Birdman , and wished to portray
25200-530: The massacre in Australia with only portions of his upper torso intact. Pierce would remain with the Hellfire Club for some time, eventually showing a more adversarial relationship with Shaw as the current Black King. He heads out to an outpost in Switzerland believed to be the immortal tyrant Apocalypse 's old stronghold, to obtain the first mutant's power and technological marvels, also to secure his position within
25400-408: The merged form, but Apocalypse begins to re-emerge. Jean and Cable are alerted to his location in Egypt, where Jean in the end manages to free Cyclops by telepathically tearing out Apocalypse's essence from her husband's body, rendering Apocalypse in an incorporeal astral form, which Cable apparently destroys using his psimitar. In the aftermath of the 2005 " Decimation " storyline, in which most of
25600-468: The millions who populated earth prior to his demise at Cable's hands. Reappearing inside a Sphinx -shaped ship, Apocalypse confronts the X-Men with his newly assembled cadre of Horsemen on the front lawn of the X-Mansion . The Horseman Famine uses his powers to cause an intense feeling of hunger and weakness in the mutants and humans on the institute grounds. Apocalypse offers the mutants an elixir: his own blood, provided they join his side. Bent on becoming
25800-404: The more important experience. I don't want to be searching for stuff for him, I want to be working towards getting the cut right." McCusker concluded by stating that another editor on Logan has use for post-production. Chas Jarrett was the overall visual effects supervisor and visual effects company Image Engine worked on most of the visual effects on Logan . In July 2016, Cliff Martinez
26000-451: The mutant's true appearance, Nephri rejects him and turns to her brother for protection. The heartbroken En Sabah Nur's rage causes his mutant abilities to fully emerge. Rampaging, he renames himself Apocalypse . Rama-Tut flees and En Sabah Nur uses the Celestial technology to transform his former tormentor Ozymandias into a blind clairvoyant made of living stone, now enslaved to Apocalypse. As
26200-461: The mutants fled to Muir Island , Pierce and the Reavers attack Muir Island, and battle Moira MacTaggart 's "Muir Island X-Men" and Freedom Force . With the Reavers, he also attacks Frost Technologies' plant in California. Pierce creates two super intelligent sentient androids ( Elsie-Dee and Albert ), programming the two to find Wolverine and self-destruct. However, the androids' intelligence allows
26400-409: The mutants lost their powers, Apocalypse was revealed to be alive and well. The techno-organic virus, with which he long ago infected Cable, was revealed to be the means by which Apocalypse's spirit reconstituted itself. With only a drop of his blood into a vat of organs and blood, the virus rewrote the genetic code of the material within to form a body for Apocalypse. Apocalypse awakes from a slumber in
26600-615: The natural order and his own plans, Apocalypse battles the High Evolutionary. Following the genetic manipulation of Caliban, Apocalypse declines an alliance with the Asgardian villain Loki and other villains conspiring to unleash the " Acts of Vengeance ". This results in a brief fight between Apocalypse and Loki. Apocalypse learns of Sinister's intention to create an adversary powerful enough to destroy him: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers,
26800-536: The new Captain America over who should take custody of the body of Red Skull, Evan convinces the Summers brothers that Professor X is dead and they have other problems to deal with. Acting as Apocalypse, 'En' vows to lead the mutants in an uprising, rallying the converted X-Men into helping him take Avengers Tower—now disregarded by the inverted Avengers after they captured almost all other heroes using Pym particles —to use as
27000-514: The new messiah for mutant-kind, Apocalypse approaches the Earth leaders at the United Nations in New York and issues an ultimatum : humanity would destroy ninety percent of its own population, putting man and mutant on level ground in anticipation of the final conflict when the worthy alone would survive – or Apocalypse would unleash his meta-plague on the planet and obliterate all humanity. In
27200-486: The new Apocalypse through the psychic abilities of the Shadow King . After Deadpool 's failed attempt to rescue Evan, the boy dons the Celestial armor to prevent Wolverine's death at Daken's hands and nearly kills Brotherhood members Sabretooth and Mystique . Enraged by the lies he has been told and filled with new-found power from Apocalypse's armor, Evan prepares to attack Wolverine himself, but Wolverine convinces him of
27400-671: The original. Empire chose the trailer as the best trailer of the year. The Hollywood Reporter ' s Aaron Couch praised the trailer, and stated, "If Logan delivers on the promise of this trailer, it will be a true rarity in modern superhero movie making." James Dyer of Empire heralded the trailer and its director, James Mangold, by stating: "We've had a veritable feast of great trailers ... from John Wick to Rogue One , Assassin's Creed and A Cure for Wellness . But none ..., no matter how impressive, have been quite so artfully constructed as this glorious first look at [Mangold]'s Logan ." Forrest Wickman of Slate called
27600-516: The other hand, listeners will still need to be comfortable with music that shifts between being dissonant, ambient, and jazzy, and which has more in common with the work of Ennio Morricone , Jerry Fielding , Elliot Goldenthal , and Bernard Herrmann , than anyone who has scored a super-hero movie before. If you're cool with that, then Logan will find a way to at least entertain you and allow you to experience its unusual tonal palette. If not, then you may find yourself recoiling in horror like Caliban from
27800-515: The past to take revenge on Apocalypse. After a battle on the Moon with his former servants, the Dark Riders (who had joined Stryfe), Apocalypse is left for dead by Archangel. The Dark Riders' new leader, Genesis (the adopted son of Cable, who had traveled to the present to ensure Apocalypse's rise and exact revenge on his father), plans to resurrect Apocalypse by sacrificing the lives of the people in villages neighboring Akkaba. During this time, Wolverine
28000-419: The pencil page—just adding bits of costuming business which hinted toward his true appearance when we'd eventually see him in full reveal. I don't believe there was even a character sketch done for him at that point—I planned on making sense of it all later on, but by then I was gone and others had that concern." Apocalypse's silhouette in issue #5 does not match up with his full appearance in issue #6, suggesting
28200-506: The phone last night talking about ideas but there is no script and no writer yet so it's a way off." Mangold would later reveal that Jackman was very involved in developing the story, saying, "Hugh and I have been friends for almost twenty years now, and he was there every step of the way. For Hugh and I, the first goal was to construct something more intimate. Hugh often brought up The Wrestler and Unforgiven as examples. I used those references as well as others. I pitched to both Hugh and
28400-488: The possibility that Guice was using Simonson's sketch as a reference for issue #6 but did not have access to it earlier, necessitating that he come up with his own design for issue #5. Walter Simonson himself has downplayed his role in the character's creation, saying that Guice was responsible for creating the design and that he, Simonson, merely modified it later: "I did not co-create Apocalypse. However, I wish I had. Louise Simonson and Jackson Guice created him. He appeared in
28600-451: The present danger: Onslaught . He observes the conflict between the psionic entity and Earth's heroes with Uatu the Watcher , who suggests to Apocalypse a course of action: an alliance with the one who hated him the most, Cable. Apocalypse surmises that Onslaught will be most vulnerable through the astral plane and that he needs Cable for actual physical transportation to this realm. Once on
28800-417: The present, Apocalypse is prematurely awoken from his regeneration chamber by his Riders (now calling themselves The Dark Riders ), who inform their master that his Horsemen have kidnapped Cyclops and Jean Grey , supposedly under his instructions (in actuality, Mister Sinister, who was posing as Apocalypse). When attempting to rejuvenate himself again, Apocalypse is nearly killed by Stryfe who had arrived in
29000-509: The production employed about 130 New Mexican crew members and two New Mexican cast members, as well as 600 extras throughout the production, the film office stated. On July 17, 2016, it was reported that the production of Juarez was in the process of casting to work on a scene filmed on July 22, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On July 25, 2016, it was reported that filming had begun in the Northern Meadows neighborhood of Rio Rancho, while
29200-449: The prophecy, are abducted by Apocalypse's Horsemen including a faction of the Skrulls. The Twelve legend was in fact a ruse, orchestrated by Apocalypse himself: once the Twelve are assembled, Apocalypse intended to use them to transform himself into a deity-like entity beyond the Celestials . It is revealed at the end of this story arc that Apocalypse's physical form has been burned out due to
29400-422: The raw and savage world in the film capture just how much innocence has been lost over time". On March 5, 2015, James Mangold anticipated that filming would begin "early next year." Prior to filming, the film was given the false title of Juarez to lower the visibility of production, but the local media eventually uncovered the ruse. On March 1, 2016, The Times-Picayune had confirmed that Mangold's film
29600-501: The release of The Wolverine , Mangold spoke of a potential sequel with the aim of not converting it into a "Will the world survive?" film, while also stressing his need "... not to make the same picture again." In December 2013, Jackman spoke of nearing the end of his tenure as the character, while stating that the film was in the very early stages of development. Jackman also revealed that Mangold and he had begun speaking of potential ideas, adding, "... Jim Mangold and I were literally on
29800-520: The remains of the Reaver Vultura to aid him in the destruction of the fleet. During his attack he also used Brian Braddock, who was under Apocalypse's mind control, to kill Emma Frost, though he resisted Pierce's orders, for which Pierce killed him. In the end, Pierce was destroyed by Weapon X . A human team known only as X-Terminators had used Pierce's blood sample before he was infected by the techno-organic virus to create several clones of him to help
30000-498: The rest of whom had been given the kill order by the corrupt commander to his soldiers, an event which soon made public news and garnered the attention of some ragtag X-Men. After many of these mutants had been captured on live television, the remains of Pierce's cyborg crew, led by leftover mutant heroes Havok and Warpath , launched an assault on the Location 22 base camp of O*N*E withholding and experimenting on their friends. Where it
30200-481: The role during a dinner after Jackman asked him why he had decided to end the show Seinfeld . Seinfeld replied "I've always believed, you should never spend everything creatively because it's almost herculean to start up again. You should always have something in the tank," with Jackman summarising his point with "Leave the party before it gets too late kind of theory." In December 2016, Ryan Reynolds revealed that he had been trying to convince Jackman to return for
30400-476: The same point in their sales cycle. Logan was released in 4,071 theaters, the widest release for an R-rated film, breaking American Sniper ' s previous record of 3,888 theaters. Five hundred and eighty theatres were premium large-format screens, including 381 IMAX theaters, setting the IMAX record for an R-rated film. Logan earned $ 9.5 million from Thursday night previews, which began at 7 p.m. This marked
30600-631: The same thing with Wolverine , either before or after, but based on the script." Also in March, 20th Century Fox set a release date of March 3, 2017, Mangold boarded the project as director, Jackman signed on to reprise his role, and David James Kelly was hired to pen the screenplay. In April 2014, Jackman spoke about his ambitious feelings for the character of Logan while mentioning that they can go further than what they achieved in The Wolverine . Jackman also expressed his feelings of finality with portraying
30800-565: The scenes and leading the Alliance of Evil (mentioned in X-Factor #4, May 1986). Layton intended to reveal this character to be the Daredevil villain the Owl on the final page of X-Factor #5. However, Layton left the book after writing this issue and was replaced by writer Louise Simonson . Editor Bob Harras said that the character arose because of storytelling needs: "All I had communicated to Louise
31000-575: The second-biggest X-Men opening in the country, trailing behind only Apocalypse . Tracking showed that the film opened with 85,000 screenings on Friday, which increased to about 95,000 on Saturday and Sunday, from a 9.98 million attendance. Included within that total was $ 4.4 million from 388 IMAX screens. In Brazil, it recorded the biggest opening for Fox, and the seventh-biggest opening overall, with $ 8.2 million. The top openings were in China ($ 46.3 million), Korea ($ 8.2 million), and Russia ($ 7.1 million). In
31200-417: The second-biggest previews in the X-Men franchise, behind Deadpool ' s $ 12.7 million. On its opening day, the film scored the biggest R-rated March opening with $ 33.1 million, breaking 300 ' s previous record, as well as the third-biggest R-rated opening day, after Deadpool ($ 47.3 million) and The Matrix Reloaded ($ 37.5 million). Earning a total of $ 88.4 million during its opening weekend,
31400-448: The self-destruct mechanism on the sword of War, which the New World Order had obtained, destroying their headquarters. The Hellfire Club later awakens Apocalypse's long-hidden Harbinger from its deep sleep: originally a normal man, whom Apocalypse in the 19th century once left to incubate for 100 years. Apocalypse releases his Horseman (Caliban) and his scribe Ozymandias from his possession, to fend for themselves, if they were to survive
31600-412: The series needed an archenemy, or what Simonson called "a big, bad villain", and conceived of Apocalypse. Simonson described the character thus: When X-Factor was created, it caused a split in the "Mutant World" [and] several seminal characters were pulled out of [writer] Chris Claremont's X-Men . Apocalypse is the first mutant – a brilliant shape-shifter who is virtually immortal – and sees himself as
31800-487: The site where he will detonate a Celestial-based 'gene-bomb' to wipe out all humans not carrying the X-gene. With only the inverted villains present at the original confrontation to oppose the inverted X-Men and Avengers, the gene bomb is nearly detonated, but is contained thanks to the sacrifice of Carnage . As Apocalypse broods on his failure, the decapitated Deadpool—converted to a peaceful version of himself called Zenpool by
32000-468: The sketch by Walter [Simonson] and heard Louise's take on him, I knew we had the character I wanted. Jackson [Guice] redrew the page, patching in the shadowy Apocalypse where the Owl had been. But the genesis was clearly Walt and Weezie's." Guice admitted to difficulty recalling the details behind redrawing the last page of issue #5: "The best I can remember now is putting his look together pretty much right on
32200-606: 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, 2016, and wrapped on August 13, 2016, in New Mexico . The locations used were mainly in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi . It premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17, 2017, and
32400-560: The son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor . Apocalypse, viewing him as a threat and realizing that Nathan's energy is the very energy that awoke him all those months earlier, sends his newly formed group, the Riders of the Storm, to abduct the Summers child. Apocalypse at this time had conquered the city of Attilan , home of the Inhumans , as well as enslaved part of its population. X-Factor, alongside
32600-426: The structure of anything that could harm their master. Omega World crumbled as the result of Apocalypse being fatally wounded by Nightcrawler . Storm was forced to take Apocalypse back to the present with them so they could undo the transformation of Colossus, who was turned into a Horseman, however, before he could restore Colossus back to normal, Apocalypse instead teleported him away, sending him to Clan Akkaba. It
32800-420: The studio felt it could not prevent the piracy of custom trailers and exclusive footage routinely screened for fans in attendance. On October 20, 2016, 20th Century Fox released a 90-second teaser trailer to promote Logan , following a six-second sneak peek the prior day. Later that day, 20th Century Fox released an international red band version of the trailer, featuring slightly more graphic violence than
33000-419: The studio that I had an idea for an extremely bloody, existential Little Miss Sunshine ." By March 2014, a decision was made to begin shooting after Bryan Singer 's X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), with the tentative plan to shoot the films back-to-back , with producer Hutch Parker stating, "... the goal will be X-Men: Apocalypse for 2016, which means at the latest [filming begins] in summer 2015, and then
33200-464: The sun, or experiencing a psychic attack of your own." The film takes visual, tonal and thematic inspiration from classic western and noir cinema, with director James Mangold having stated that Logan ' s influences included "visual reference points" of cinema, citing Shane (1953), The Cowboys (1972), Paper Moon (1973), The Gauntlet (1977), Unforgiven (1992), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and The Wrestler (2008). Mangold
33400-524: The territory, marginally ahead of X-Men: Apocalypse . While the debut was not enough to break any significant records, it ranked as the second-biggest opening weekend for a Hollywood release in the January–March quarter, behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice . Apocalypse (comics) Apocalypse ( En Sabah Nur ) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . He
33600-410: The third Summers brother was revealed to be the mutant Gabriel Summers, a.k.a. Vulcan . Apocalypse was the principal adversary in the mid-1980s X-Men spin-off series X-Factor (1986–91) until being apparently killed at the climax of issue #68 (July 1991). Since then, the character has died and been resurrected several times thanks to his power and advanced alien technology. His name En Sabah Nur
33800-434: The total ticket sales were in Canada, with premium large formats comprising $ 12.3 million (15%) from 558 screens, and IMAX comprising $ 10 million (12%) of the film's total opening weekend. The opening-weekend audience was 63% males and 83% people between 18 and 44 years old. In an opening-weekend poll conducted by Fandango, 71% of responders said that more superhero films should be rated R, while 86% were interested in seeing
34000-404: The trailer "surprisingly mournful". Logan was released on Blu-ray , DVD , and 4K on May 23, 2017, and was released on Digital HD on May 16, 2017. The film became available to stream on Disney+ on July 22, 2022, alongside Deadpool and Deadpool 2 . On April 29, 2017, James Mangold announced via Twitter that a black-and-white version of the film entitled Logan Noir would have
34200-558: The treatment for the film and Lauren Shuler Donner returning to produce under The Donners' Company. At the time, Hugh Jackman neither confirmed nor denied his reprisal of Logan in a new film. Jackman clarified that his lapsing contract with Fox, which reportedly would need to be renegotiated after X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), did not mean he was leaving the franchise, as he had been working movie-by-movie since X2 (2003). He also stated, "I do want to do it with Jim and with [producer] Lauren Shuler-Donner because we had such
34400-491: The two androids. After Albert subdues the Reavers, Pierce states having sold Elsie-Dee's head to yakuza boss Kimura, the arms to the Jade Dragon Triad, and the legs to the Vladivostok Mafia. After Albert heads out, Bonebreaker reports that some toxic fumes escaped from the air lock and advises to put a respirator on as Pierce plans to put a suffering chip in Albert's head. After getting the parts from them, Albert puts Elsie-Dee back together. In light of Albert's actions towards them,
34600-406: The two to put the bomb in Elsie-Dee on hold, and abandon the Reavers. The Upstarts ' members Trevor Fitzroy sends reprogrammed Sentinels to destroy the Reavers, as they are a threat to mutants and the former White King is worth a lot of "points" in the deadly game the Upstarts play. Only Lady Deathstrike and Cylla escape. Pierce has Gateway teleport him to the one responsible for the attack on
34800-549: The two were able to preempt whatever plans he had alongside Khyber, the mysterious cyborg whose Adamantium reserves Pierce stole, who had intervened. Pierce later re-emerges, employing cyborgs Pico, Lady Deathstrike, and Skullbuster in an attempt to abduct Milo Thurman (Domino's estranged husband) from his US government holding facility. As Thurman has the genius ability to predict future events accurately from current data, Pierce wishes to integrate Thurman into his cybernetic brain so he may use this ability to exert further control of
35000-495: The ultimate futility of revenge. Evan is later visited by Deadpool at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Deadpool tells Evan he is not Apocalypse and that Deadpool will always be there for him when he needs him. Later Deadpool enlists Evan and Quentin's help to help him saving his daughter Eleanor Camacho from the Flag-Smasher , with Evan promising Quentin a bloodbath and some action to motivate him. He manages to save Ellie's life and proposes Deadpool to let Quentin erase from
35200-507: The vampire more popularly known as Count Dracula . In 1859, Apocalypse encounters British scientist Nathaniel Essex and learns more about the nature of mutants. Apocalypse uses his Celestial technology to transform Essex into the superhuman being Mister Sinister . He then coerces Sinister and the Hellfire Club into aiding his plans for global conquest, but Sinister concludes that these plans are madness and betrays Apocalypse, forcing him back into hibernation. In 1897, Count Dracula attacks
35400-400: The vast amount of energies he has under his control, forcing him to wear a bio-armor (like his future counterpart) and now plans to use Nate Grey as a host body for him to move his energy and consciousness into. The X-Men confront Apocalypse as he is close to merging with Nate, but are unable to stop him. Cyclops pushes Nate Grey out of the way, merging with Apocalypse instead. While the merge
35600-442: The virus, Pierce and his band of assassins become cyborgs with regenerative abilities and the power to assimilate both organic and non-organic material to mutate themselves. Pierce infiltrated the territory of the Human High Council in an attempt to destroy the Council fleet and later attempted to kill Gateway , an ally of the HHC. After the fleet was assembled for an attack on Apocalypse 's empire, Pierce infected Carol Danvers with
35800-698: The weapon she was made to be, and after she tearfully acknowledges him as her father, Logan dies peacefully in Laura's arms. She and the children bury Logan, with Laura reciting as his eulogy the closing speech from Shane , which Logan, Charles, and she had watched in the Oklahoma City hotel. Before the children depart, Laura tilts the cross on his grave marker to create an X. Eriq La Salle , Elise Neal , and Elizabeth Rodriguez appear as Will Munson, Kathryn Munson, and Gabriela, respectively. Doris Morgado, David Kallaway, Han Soto, Jason Genao , Krzysztof Soszynski , and Alison Fernandez appear as Maria, Rhodes, Valet, Rictor , Mohawk, and Delilah, respectively. In
36000-435: The world of a near future. Mangold spoke of visual framing , while noting that he does not necessarily think about the "comic-book" related sort, instead highlighting the variety of stylistic influences that went into Logan . These influences include film noir framings and classic Hollywood filmmaking styles, as well as the Germanic expressionist filmmaking style of the early twentieth century, which Mangold stated has
36200-467: The world's food supply. Logan, having found a gun, shoots Rice dead and injures Pierce. X-24 fights Logan as the children combine their powers to kill Pierce and the remaining Reavers. Rictor uses his powers to flip a truck onto X-24, but X-24 frees himself and impales Logan on a large tree branch, mortally wounding him. Laura loads Logan's revolver with the adamantium bullet and shoots X-24 in the head, killing him. Near death, Logan tells Laura not to become
36400-518: The world's future. Pierce reveals that after the events involving Fitzroy at the Hellfire Club, his mind and body were restored by a mysterious benefactor, and he now has a new prime directive. Just as Pierce downloads Thurman's mind into his own, Domino destroys Pierce's appropriated Weapon X base. Domino escapes, but Pierce and Thurman both seemingly perish in the ensuing explosion. Pierce next tries to take over Sebastian Shaw's new Hellfire Club, launching an attack and slashing Shaw's chest. Though Shaw
36600-423: The world. Shortly after his return as seen during the " Hunt for Wolverine " storyline, Pierce and the Reavers were left in dire straits since they failed a couple of jobs as a unit. Worn down and nearly broken by hard times the cyborg posse took up one last job to earn enough cash for a total refit - exhuming the grave for the deceased Wolverine. They were disappointed to find that Logan's body had been removed from
36800-408: The years pass, Apocalypse finds he no longer aged. Around this time he founded the Coven Akkaba, an order of human sorcerers, in order to explore the field of magic. The human mages believed that their magic would make them equal to mutants in Apocalypse's eyes. They were wrong and when they realized their patron considered them disposable as non-mutants, however, Akkaba broke from Apocalypse and nursed
37000-406: Was already being promoted as his final time portraying the character, he felt he had to honor that sentiment and "straight-up lied" to journalists about his plans. He contacted Reynolds about reprising the role in August 2022, shortly before Reynolds met with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to discuss a third Deadpool film. Shortly after the announcement, Reynolds and Jackman clarified that
37200-452: Was also inspired by The Dark Knight trilogy , saying "It seemed to me that the only films of this ilk that did interest me, that I did admire, or to use Chris Nolan 's movies as an example, the ones that have really moved me beyond just the spectacle. There was a very clear decision to apply a film genre to the material, if that makes any sense."" The film also takes tropes and themes of the cyberpunk , with focus put on automation affecting
37400-433: Was altered to start on May 2, 2016. On May 23, 2016, filming took place at the NASA Michoud Plant in New Orleans East , with Jackman being spotted, not far from Slidell , shooting a fight scene outdoors on the property. On May 26, 2016, the intersection of LA 16 at US 51 was closed for a time due to filming, with local store fronts donning faux signage to transform Amite City , and east of Amite near Bell Road. It
37600-460: Was announced as the composer of Logan 's musical score. In December 2016, Mangold announced that Marco Beltrami , who had previously collaborated with Mangold on 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Wolverine (2013), would take over from Martinez and score Logan instead. Beltrami's musical score received critical acclaim, praising the composition and the minimalistic approach. Jonathan Broxton, in his critical review, wrote "there will be
37800-430: Was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . He first appears as a high-ranking member of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club , where he holds the position of White Bishop . However, Pierce is in fact a genocidal mutant hater, and has only joined the Hellfire Club to kill the Inner Circle's other members, all of whom are mutants. In addition to hating mutants, Pierce is also bigoted towards certain nationalities and harbors
38000-403: Was eventually revealed that Pierce was only captured to act as Bastion's mole inside the X-Men's headquarters, all the while building several structures that surround Utopia. Later after receiving the green light from Bastion to proceed with their plan, Pierce provokes an explosion that decimates all the X-Men's jets and the Blackbirds. Pierce stands amid the debris, and muses to the X-Men that he
38200-404: Was finishing work on Mangold's Logan , during the period of October 7, 2016, wherein he spoke of going through the dailies and breaking them down, and figuring out the structure of one scene which he described as a "complicated, multi-component scene". McCusker spoke of the task being rather time-consuming, on the front end, albeit stating, "I am looking at the back end experience with [Mangold] as
38400-430: Was later identified as Apocalypse in disguise. Classic X-Men #25 revealed that years earlier, Apocalypse encountered the terrorist Moses Magnum and granted him superhuman power. During his run on Cable , Robert Weinberg planned a story to reveal that Apocalypse was the third Summers brother, a mysterious sibling to the mutants Cyclops and Havok. But Weinberg left the book before he could go along with his plan and
38600-438: Was my desire that an A-level, first class character be introduced. I wanted a Magneto -level villain who would up the stakes and give the X-Factor team reason to exist." In a 2011 interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer , Simonson explained that when the X-Factor series was created, the original five X-Men were pulled out of the purview of Chris Claremont , who was writing The Uncanny X-Men . However, Simonson felt that
38800-614: Was originally scheduled to move on toward Sicily Island, however, additional periods of shooting were added. Natchez, Mississippi , had been chosen by producers of Juarez as the next filming location, for an upcoming scene which required the casting truck drivers, that would be filmed between June 14 up until June 28, 2016. On July 12, 2016, the Albuquerque Journal confirmed that Juarez would move on to its third major filming location— New Mexico , which ran through August in Albuquerque , Rio Rancho , Abiquiú , Tierra Amarilla and Chama . The New Mexico Film Office revealed that
39000-524: Was preparing to shoot in New Orleans , Louisiana , with a starting schedule of May. Producers Kinberg, Shuler Donner and Parker chose to film in Louisiana because of its popularity in filmmaking locations, as well as its filming incentive , which includes a 40% tax credit for movie productions, though it requires a minimum expenditure of US$ 300,000. Principal photography was confirmed to have begun in New Orleans, with an original shooting schedule occurring from April 25 to August 13, 2016, albeit shooting
39200-399: Was revealed in Cable #6 (December 1993) and his birthplace ( Egypt ) and the origin of his technology, were revealed in X-Force #37 (August 1994). According to Marvel, the name translates from Arabic as "The First One" (although, in reality, the translation is considered grammatically incorrect, as it means "The First/Morning Light" [En-("The") + Sabah- ("Morning") + Nur- ("Light")] ). It
39400-483: Was revealed that scenes were filmed prior in Husser on May 25, 2016, with a scheduled daytime shoot to occur at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Hammond on May 27, 2016. Filming took place from June 9, 2016, until June 10, 2016, in New Orleans and Metairie , respectively. On June 1, 2016, it was confirmed that 20th Century Fox had applied to film exterior scenes for Juarez on Louisiana Highway 15 between Ferriday and Clayton from June 12, 2016, up until June 16, 2016, at
39600-406: Was the last one". Jackman expressed interest in continuing to play Wolverine had the character been brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe , saying that the prospect "certainly would have made [him] pause" and citing a desire to see the character interact with the Hulk and Iron Man . Amid rumors of Disney's prospective acquisition of 20th Century Fox's film division , it was revealed such
39800-511: Was theatrically released in the United States on March 3, 2017. 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 2017 , and nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards , becoming the first live-action superhero film to be nominated for screenwriting. Grossing $ 619.2 million worldwide, it became
40000-438: Was used to create the clones that are seen in this film. Hugh and I have been talking about what we would do since we were working on the last one, and for both of us it was this requirement that, to be even interested in doing it, we had to free ourselves from some assumptions that had existed in the past, and be able to change the tone a bit. Not merely to change for change's sake, but also to make something that's speaking to
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