36 of the most interesting Logan easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Logan movie message.
In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
Genre
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director
James Mangold
Production
20th Century Fox
Stars
Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook
IMDB score
8.1
Logan Movie Trivia
Hugh Jackman induced extreme dehydration prior to filming scenes of Wolverine shirtless, losing water weight. He adds it's extremely dangerous and no one should try it. Jackman also used the same technique in Les Mis?rables.
Sound engineers added a low frequency continuous heartbeat sound effect that has a pounding effect on your ears that you would only experience during a fight-or-flight episode
Logan wears black until he regains his humanity, and then immediately fights his clone, who wears black. This mirrors the western Shane that they watch in the hotel, where Shane wears a white hat, and Jack Wilson wears black.
Logan berates Laura for reading an X-Men comic book and says that maybe a quarter of it happened. This is a nod to 20th Century Fox continuously disregarding X-Men fans and being only 25% faithful to original X-Men storylines.
When Prof X was having a seizure, an actress forgot to stay still and turn her head around
Logan Movie Easter Eggs
When Logan attends a funeral at Greenwood Cemetery, a gravestone with the name "Rogers" can be briefly seen. Captain America was buried at the very same cemetery in the Ultimate continuity
When Logan looks at the files of the kids, it shows that the DNA of Christopher Bradley (AKA Bolt) and Dominic Petros (AKA Avalanche) were also used to create mutant children.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, in an interview a civilian calls the heist "Ocean's 7-Eleven", referencing the Ocean's Eleven series also directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Logan Movie Foreshadowing
Logan 5 passes a bank of "lifeclock" computers: The red computer, which tracks the people approaching 30 y/o displays the fewest active blinky lights because people are ritually murdered on "Carousel" on their 30th birthday.
Logan movie hidden details
Sir Patrick Stewart lost weight for a role for the first time ever when he played Xavier in 'Logan' (2017). He'd kept a steady weight all his life up to that point and Hugh Jackman genuinely held him in all the scenes of Wolverine carrying Professor Xavier.
Laura moves a bag from the driver's seat when leaving the clinic. She had to sit on it to drive the car.
It is mentioned that the mutant cure is now present in everyday corn syrup, implying that Logan's healing factor is depleting now of all times because he has unknowingly consumed the cure through food products. It's also why he is aging significantly faster than he ever has.
This moment in Logan (2017) predicted in The Wolverine (2013)
Logan has an X cut on his forehead during the burial of Xavier
When Charles is having a seizure at the hotel and Logan stabs the first guy in the head, the impact of the guy's head on the wall causes the door lock to swing out.
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Logan stabs an enemy through the head with his claws. His claws happen to go through a door frame and the latch lock on the other side swings open
Logan tells the gangsters "they're going to strip" the chrome plated lugs on his car. Later on, he is hit with the Lug wrench and chrome dust flies off the wrench (1:14 in the video).
The ball Laura is playing with at the motel is the same ball Rictor was playing with in the facility in Mexico.
Charles tells Logan that the new mutant is waiting for him at the Statue of Liberty. Logan shrugs this off as dementia setting in. Technically, Charles was right, since Laura is staying with Gabriella at the "Liberty Motel."
Wolverine drives a limo licenced under the name James Howlett. This is the birth name of Wolverine, though throughout the movies he's known as Logan.
There is a anti-drinking poster in the waiting room that depicts alcohol being poured into a metal man
Wolverine tells the thieves that they are going to strip the chrome plating off the lug nuts. When he gets hit with the tire iron, chrome flakes fly out of the end.
The use of the harpoon gun against Laura in Logan (2017) mirrors the use of arrows to subdue Logan in the Wolverine (2013).
A set of lips and teeth are visible in the Box robots mouth.
When talking about the upcoming race, Max Chilblain [Seth MacFarlane] talks about winning at "lap 600". This highlights the character's ignorance about the sport because there is no lap 600. The race is called the Coca-Cola 600 because it has 600 miles with only 400 laps.
When Logan and Donald Pierce first meet, Donald explains he found Logan through local PD where they claim the men Logan killed were either mauled by a tiger, or killed by Freddie Krueger, stating one is fictional and the other is extinct. Tigers are extinct in this dystopian future.
During the opening fight scene, Logan intentionally steps in front of a gang member's bullets to protect his rental car, knowing damage to his car would be a more costly setback than damage to his body (which would normally heal from gunshots)
One of the mutant kids is holding a figurine of Wolverine.
The group is referred to as "Oceans 7-11". This is a nod to director Steven Soderbergh, who directed oceans 11,12 and 13.
During the climactic chase through the forest, one of the mercenaries calls Logan the Wolverine. This is the last time he would be called that before dying
One of the mutant children is holding a Wolverine action figure--complete with yellow spandex--during Logan's funeral.
The "Logan Hex" is referenced to describe bad luck in the family. Hilary Swank's FBI character wears hex earrings.
When Logan goes to the Nurse to pick them up, he finds out she's been killed already and finds her phone with an unsend text message she was still typing before she got killed.
Which is heavily inspired by Shane, you can see a visual parallel between Jack Wilson and Pierce.
Logan, Laura is seen in the car at 39:12 even though she is fighting at 39:16 and doesn't get into the car until 39:35.