HBO Max will drop a 2017 dystopian sci-fi movie starring Hugh Jackman from its library very soon. Directed by a five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, the film served as an emotional farewell to the beloved character Jackman had played for 15 years.
Logan is leaving HBO Max very soon
HBO Max will bid farewell to Logan from its platform on Monday, June 1, 2026.
James Mangold directed the film and co-wrote it with Scott Frank and Michael Green. In addition to Jackman portraying the titular character, the cast also includes Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, and Richard E. Grant, among others.
Despite sharing characters and actors with the long-running X-Men film franchise, Logan is primarily a standalone title. “We take place in 2029, and X-Men Apocalypse ends in 2024. There’s five blank years there that are wide open to seeing how things got from here to there. Or else you could do what I would advocate, which is imagine a different world and create a new movie, and you don’t need the permission of the other movies,” the director explained (via Empire).
The film takes place in a dystopian future where mutants are nearly extinct. Meanwhile, an aging, weak Logan works as a limousine driver and hides in Mexico while caring for a dementia-stricken Professor Charles Xavier, with help from Caliban.
Their lives are disrupted when a nurse asks Logan to protect and escort a young girl named Laura to Eden. As they make their way to the location, Logan learns that she is being hunted by dangerous people and that she has similar abilities to his own. Unknown to Logan, he and Laura have more in common than he understands.
20th Century Fox, the film’s distributor, released the film in the United States on March 3, 2017. Both critics and the audience loved and praised it for a well-deserved, emotional sendoff to the iconic character.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently has a Tomatometer score of 93% and a Popcornmeter score 91%. Meanwhile, on IMDb, it has an impressive score of 8.1 out of 10, based on over 900K user ratings.
At the box office, Logan grossed $619 million globally against a budget of $97 million. Moreover, it also received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, though it lost it to Call Me by Your Name.
