It seems that some big Hollywood studios are realising the superhero genre has reached saturation and these movies need to reinvent themselves. Marvel did it with the trashy, self-aware, and brilliant Deadpool, as well as the campy, '80s-tinged space opera Guardians of the Galaxy. Consider even superheroes on TV, where Jessica Jones is just a drunken private eye and the upcoming Legion takes place in a psych ward. "Gritty" doesn't cut it anymore. "Make the bad guys anti-heroes" is lazy.
Now, it looks like 20th Century Fox has figured it out, too. The next Wolverine movie takes an entirely different approach to the X-Men character, as we saw in the first trailer for the franchise's latest installment, Logan. Wolverine is a grizzled, tortured old man, the last of the heroes whose powers are waning. A wheelchair-less Professor X, Logan, and a young girl wander a post-apocalyptic, middle American wasteland—it's like Cormac McCarthy's The Road meets X-Men. It's more Mad Max than Dark Knight.
This second trailer reveals further details about the plot, which involves that young girl with Wolverine powers (two claws, self-healing, super strength) kicking ass to protect old-ass Logan and Professor X. She has a real Eleven from Stranger Things vibe. It's promising. Very promising.
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