Logan Director Has Spoken To Fox About X-23’s Return

Hugh Jackman may be done as Wolverine, but there’s still hope for Dafne Keen to return as X-23.

Keen practically stole the show as Laura in Logan and left fans begging for more. According to Logan director James Mangold, fans just might get what they’re hoping for.

“Anything’s possible,” Mangold said during a live question and answer session during screenings fo Logan Noir. “I’ve certainly talked to them about it. I even talked to them about it before we made the movie. I thought she was just such a great character, but with what Dafne did, I think that certainly, that’s possible.”

Could her return come as soon as X-Men: Dark Phoenix? There a still a lot of questions surrounding Fox’s next big X-Men movie, so, for now, anything is possible.

Keen was a great casting find for 20th Century Fox, as producer Hutch Parker recalls in a special feature showing Keen’s audition for X-23.

“There are qualities you can’t ask of someone to deliver,” says Parker. ” A level of strength, a sort of stage presence and a maturity that still doesn’t really make sense to me. It felt like she could do this most difficult thing of, on the one hand, being the sort of emotional co-star with Hugh [Jackman] and with Patrick and on top of that then also manage the physicality, which was pretty demanding. She was really a remarkable discovery.”

Logan has an 88.07 ComicBook.com Composite Score, which is the second-best ComicBook.com Composite Score among all comic book movies. Logan also has a 4.62 out of 5 ComicBook.com User Rating, making it the second most-loved comic book movie ever among ComicBook.com readers. Let us know what you thought of Logan by giving it your own rating below.

In Logan, in the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan‘s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

Logan is the final performance as Wolverine for Hugh Jackman. Jackman has played Wolverine for 17 years and through nine movies: the original X-Men trilogy, the prequel X-Men trilogy (though two of those appearances were cameos), and the Wolverine trilogy.

Logan also introduces a possible heir to Wolverine’s mantle in Laura, a.k.a. X-23, a clone young female clone of Wolverine with his claws, healing factor and fierce fighting skills.

Logan is directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Frank and Michael Green, from a story by Mangold, and also stars Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant and Dafne Keen.

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