Kevin Feige Explains How LOGAN Inspired One Aspect of AVENGERS: ENDGAME
Logan is still considered to be one of the best comic book movies that have been made and it was an emotional and powerful send-off to Hugh Jackman's Wolverine… before he showed back up in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige appeared in the Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine documentary which hit Disney+ earlier this week, and while on it, he explained how Logan influenced one aspect of Avengers: Endgame.
He reveals that it inspired how Robert Downey Jr.'s time as Iron Man would come to an end. He said:
"I had always been very vocal with Hugh that he had one of the best endings of any fictional character ever, and I told him that is so amazing, what he was able to accomplish in Logan.”
He then added: "That's what we were striving for with Robert Downey Jr. in Endgame, is to give this incredible, iconic fictional character an amazing ending.”
I think they succeeded in delivering a great and perfect ending for Tony Stark… until they reintroduced him as Doctor Doom. Seriously, though, Stark’s sacrifice was was a memorable and powerful moment that hit fans hard emotionally.
Earlier this year, Feige addressed the importance of preserving Logan's legacy with Deadpool & Wolverine, saying:
"Well, that was something we had talked about many, many years ago. One of the earliest conversations I had with Hugh Jackman after the acquisition of Fox by Disney was that Logan is one of the greatest stories ever — we can’t undo that. We can’t touch that, and we didn’t for many years."
"When the idea came about, and when the storyline [for Deadpool & Wolverine] came about, and when Hugh reached out to Ryan Reynolds in what is now a momentous moment, I believe, in certainly Marvel history and maybe movie history, it was still all about asking, 'Okay, how do we do this in a way that doesn’t, as you say, negate the amazing drama and emotion of Logan?'"
Feige continued, "The timing was just right because the multiverse is something we had already established and set up, and the Time Variance Authority was right there to help us navigate those waters in a way that allowed Deadpool to go search for a version of Wolverine that wasn’t dead in the ground. I think that [right from the beginning of the movie], we run straight at that."
He’s obviously referring to the fact Deadpool digs up Logan's corpse and proceeds to use his skeleton and claws to brutally lay waste to the TVA's agents.
Do you think the end of Logan is comparable to the end of Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame?