Logan Director Explains Why Mister Sinister Is Not In The Movie

There have been numerous rumors surrounding James Mangold’s Logan for some time, one of which included the always popular X-Men nemesis Mr. Sinister.

Multiple actors have supposedly been in the running for the character, and there were rumblings that the character would end up making an appearance in Logan. Unfortunately, that didn’t turn out to be the case, and Mangold recently sat down with CinemaBlend to explain why the character did not make a good fit for the project.

“Now that you’ve seen some of the movie, I think [what] you get a better sense of is, that’s exactly the kind of thing this movie avoids. Meaning, the kind of operatic highly-costumed, stroboscopic villainy… that’s not in this movie. Everything is kind of as real as we can make it. The movie is trying to kind of take a step backward from that kind of spectacle, so that we get another kind of gain, you know. There’s that loss, but the gain is that the movie feels extremely real and is — as one person who saw the film said to me, ‘I feel like I could go down the street and run into that Wolverine.’ Meaning that this is in my world, not some shiny other world. This is actually taking place in my world.”

From the debut trailer, fans knew this was a much more grounded story than the story that inspired it. Old Man Logan was also grounded in many ways, but it also contained some comic style flourishes like the Red Skull, the Banner family, and a Venom Tyrannosaurus rex. Ultimately those type of elements don’t fit this more grounded world, and evidently Mangold feels Mr. Sinister resides in the same category.

“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 stars Hugh Jackman (Logan), Boyd Holbrook (Donald Pierce), Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier), Dafne Keen (Laura Kinney/X-23), Doris Morgado (Maria), Stephen Merchant (Caliban), Elizabeth Rodriguez (Gabriela), and Richard E. Grant (Dr. Zander Rice). James Mangold is directing and helped on the screenplay along with Scott Frank and Michael Green.

Logan hits theaters on March 3, 2017.

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