Fox Executives Were Worried About the Darker Tone of LOGAN

Believe it or not, Fox Executives believed a darker take on the life of Logan would "bore" fans of the series. Fox chairman Stacey Snider tells Variety there was a lot of internal struggle within the company about how audiences would respond to a different Wolverine: 

“Inside, there was real consternation about the intensity of the tone of the film...It’s more of an elegy about life and death. The paradigm for it was a Western, and my colleagues were up in arms. It’s not a wise-cracking cigar-chomping mutton-sporting Wolverine, and the debate internally became, isn’t that freakin’ boring? Isn’t it exciting to imagine Wolverine as a real guy and he’s world-weary and he doesn’t want to fight anymore until a little girl needs him?”

While it's not classic late '80s suit-wearing Wolverine, I don't hear many fans complaining we are being served the aimless and tired "Old Man Logan" as opposed to his edgy predecessor. Personally, I've seen enough of edgy Wolverine in the early X-Men films and think Logan is a good way to show the evolution of a character we've seen on screen for 17 years. That's a crazy thought that there are seniors in high school who have never lived in a world where Hugh Jackman has not played Wolverine! Logan opens March 3rd in theaters.