that while he was open to the idea of killing off the character that?s helped define his career, he had lobbied for an ending closer to Clint Eastwood?s 1992 Western Unforgiven, a clear influence on Logan. ?[Unforgiven] is more devastating for me. The fact that he just rides out of town, unforgiven and somehow damned in his heroism.?
Despite butting heads with Mangold over the idea of Logan meeting his maker (so to speak), Jackman decided to put his trust in the director, and even though the film?s ending been written into the script by then, when he finally saw it on the big screen, he realized how wrong he was. ?When I saw [the ending], I cried. I sat next to Patrick Stewart, we saw it for the first time, and both of us wept.? Mangold went on to add that he wanted the film?s ending to feel like a definitive close to a long-running character.
