Logan director REVEALS the real reason Caliban is also in X-Men: Apocalypse
LOGAN director James Mangold has revealed the real reason that Caliban is also in X-Men: Apocalypse.
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The crazy X-Men timeline is confusing enough, but fans were especially befuddled when Stephen Merchant played the mutant Caliban in Logan after Tomas Lemarquis’ portrayal of him in last year’s X-Men: Apocalypse.
To add to this, Logan is set in 2029, a full 46 years after the 1983 set X-Men: Apocalypse.
The latter sees Caliban play a bit of a baddie information broker, compared to being Professor X’s carer in Logan.
Of course the issue could be explained away by presuming that Caliban became good over time, but now Logan director James Mangold has given the final answer.
Logan director REVEALS the real reason Caliban is also in X-Men Apocalypse
James Mangold said it was a coincidence when writing the scripts
Speaking with Nerdist, he said: “It’s a funny, messy story of how so often these things are not as coordinated as everyone thinks.
“I actually had written him into our movie, and they didn’t know [he was] in Apocalypse. “Then they kind of wrote it in their movie, and they cast someone in their movie and I had not seen it and was working away on mine.”
The director also recently confirmed that Logan’s shocking ending was predicted in The Wolverine.
Despite the Caliban mix-up, Mangold wasn’t going to let his vision for Logan be compromised, so he cast who he thought was right for the part.
He added: “I just wanted to see this particular energy that we wrote, so I cast for what we were looking for.
“And I love Stephen, I’m a huge fan of his.”