LOGAN Star Dafne Keen Wants to Play X-23 Again for Marvel Studios
After I watched Logan, I was pretty pumped up about the possibility of seeing a spinoff film that focused on Laura Kinney, a.k.a. X-23. At one point, director James Mangold actually started working on a script! But it never moved forward, and before we knew it, Disney acquired 20th Century Fox and all of the Marvel characters they owned.
Dafne Keen, the young actress who played Laura Kinney in the film, gave an awesome performance in Logan, and I would love to see her in the role again! Hell, she wants the opportunity to play her again as well for the Marvel Cinematic Universe! During a recent interview with CB, she was asked about it and said:
"Yes, definitely. 100 percent."
As much as I would love to see Keen back in the role, I just don’t think it’ll happen. There’s no doubt that Marvel Studios will want to start from scratch if they decide to introduce the character in the MCU.
Craig Kyle, who co-wrote Thor: Ragnarok, was also working alongside Mangold on the script for the film, and when previously talking about what he wanted to do with the character, he explained:
"We know the kids were created and tested. I'd love to see some of the stories that we told [in the comics], see as much as we can of how she came to be, but then really get into the stories of what she was forced to do and commit. She said she killed people. She said bad people. The bulk of who X-23 and Laura killed in the comic books were bad people, but she did kill some children. She did kill a whole press corps. I think there's something powerful about watching her go through those horrors without any say and without any ability to not take those actions.
"A story I always wanted to tell was, once she's free and once she's gone through what she's gone through, the only way she can have a hope for a future is for her to go back and trace the lives that remained and were harmed by the actions she was forced to commit. You put her on this journey of redemption. She faces the families that lost fathers. The orphans, everyone that was touched by her horrific acts. And she can go through them one by one and face everyone affected by the murders she was forced to commit, if she can get to the end of that road without being killed by those that remain, there's something on the other side of that. I think it would truly be transformative for the character."
That definitely would have been a great and powerful story to tell. It seems to be in line with that same western-style tone and story structure that Logan had. It’s a shame that it’ll never happen.