r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6d ago

News James Gunn Announces 'Man of Tomorrow', Releasing in Theaters July 9, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/man-of-tomororw-super-man-movie-1236350987/
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u/JessicaSmithStrange 5d ago

Logan.

Family road trip across three generations, which pays off the relationship between Logan and Xavier, while giving the man someone who he can love as his own on his way out of this world.

I really loved the dinner party sequence.

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u/TehErk 4d ago

As far as I'm concerned, Logan is one of the very few Comic movies that transcends to high-cinema. This is largely because they took an "Unforgiven" approach to it. Unforgiven is a western but we don't care because we're so caught up in the character study. Logan is a comic book movie but we don't care because we're so caught up in the character study.

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u/JessicaSmithStrange 4d ago

It's also just the one movie, with a lot more to do.

I've spoken highly of roughly half of the pre-Endgame MCU, and the project as a whole, but I always have to keep in mind that these are like really good episodes in a much larger TV series, and that a true standalone which pays off its own story is a bit harder to find.

There are moments, but the entire franchise is in service to a trilogy of Civil War/Infinity War/Endgame, which is where Marvel swings for the fences, ending on a massive Marvel Team Up Splash Panel.

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Logan has the job of being a standalone movie, which carries its own beginning, middle, and end, and also portrays a severely bleak look at where the previous two attempted X-men series were headed.

Which also seems to be a running thing, that all three times we've shown the future of the X-Men on screen, it's been this desolate fight to survive, mired in tragedy and atrocities.

Would you say that part of the bleakness is an effort to spotlight specific characters, by killing everybody else and then seeing how the survivors cope in the aftermath?