Logan trailer: Super Bowl TV spot gets atmospheric with another slow, sad track
More proof that this R-rated take - and Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine - will offer something very different to the X-Men universe
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Your support makes all the difference.If there's one place the emphasis has been squarely placed in Logan's marketing, it's the promise that the R-rated outing will take the X-Men franchise to a new maturity.
As proved by the brand new TV spot for Super Bowl 51, which sees Johnny Cash's 'Hurt' traded out for a soulful cover of 'Amazing Grace', played over plenty of the film's promised grit and brutality.
Following reports that star Hugh Jackman took a pay-cut to ensure the studio wouldn't push for a PG-13 rating, it's clear his final outing as Wolverine is meant to stand as something of a unique beast, as seen by early footage show to journalists of two of the film's key action sequences.
This film really isn't messing around with its R-rating: with the violence cranked up to the maximum, littered with brutal punch-ups and even the occasional beheading.
The new spot also continues to set up Laura, the young girl whose incredible powers seem to hint she'll eventually be established as Wolverine' own successor, known in the comics as X-23.
Set in the near future - of what Jackman has stated is a "slightly different universe" - in which Wolverine finds his healing factor is losing its effectiveness and he's begun to succumb to the effects of age, he attempts to hide out on the Mexican border with an ailing Professor X, though everything soon comes under risk when the young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Logan hits UK cinemas 1 March.
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