Logan: Why Wolverine Has Scars Revealed

The first trailer from the anticipated James Mangold directed Logan dropped earlier today, and while there were many highlights from the initial footage, one part that stands out is just how beat up Wolverine seems to be these days.

One scene, in particular, shows a shirtless Logan, and you can clearly see an assembly of scars all over his body. Logan has always enjoyed a mutant healing factor, but Mangold explained to Empire that with his older age comes changes to his mutant abilities as well.

“One of the things we all thought about as we worked on this film is, well, we don’t want to rebuild everything. We want to have some questions. In order to make a different Logan, and a different tone of a Wolverine movie, we felt like we couldn’t hold on to every tradition established in all the movies religiously, or we’d be trapped by the decisions made before us. So we questioned whether Logan’s healing factor causes him to heal without even a scar. We imagined that it may have when he was younger, but with age, he’s getting older and ailing. Perhaps his healing factor no longer produces baby-soft skin. So we imagined he heals quickly, still, but it leaves a scar. The simple idea was that his body would start to get a little more ravaged with a kind of tattooing of past battles, lacerations that remain of previous conflicts.”

Logan is based on the hit Old Man Logan storyline from Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, though the new film is taking some cues from other projects and storylines as well. X-23’s involvement, the Reavers, Nathaniel Essex, and Logan’s quest to protect X-23, who is one of the few remaining young mutants, are all aspects of other popular storylines.

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Logan marches into theaters on March 3.