New Logan Trailer Goes Meta And Mega-Violent

After the extremely cool first trailer for Logan appeared with all the swagger and melancholy of a Nick Cave live show, the film all of a sudden became a whole lot more interesting. Sure, it was already billed as the swan song of the best cast X-Men actor and one of the finest comic book performances of all time - and not to mention it adapting Old Man Logan, of course - but that brooding, super-cool teaser established a very good foundation.

The second teaser is a wholly different affair: stranger, more comics-driven, far, far more violent, and oddly meta. Not only do we get to see flashes of the R-rated violence we've been promised (including a young girl casually carrying a severed head), but there's also the suggestion that X-Men comics are actually historical documents telling exaggerated tales of their real life histories.

I'm still not sure whether that's a genius touch or an awful one. Here's the trailer...

It's great, it builds well on the first trailer and there's a lot to digest in there, including the first sight of Richard E Grant's villains, lots of X-23's powers and Wolverine reading Uncanny X-Men 132 (the start of the Dark Phoenix Saga, with a different cover, if you're looking for conspiracy theories).

Hands up who else thinks Professor X is actually a ghost? Or at least a mental projection haunting Logan...

Anyway, it continues to look extremely promising, which is no bad thing at all. Can it be March now?

Incidentally, the UK version of the trailer is better - mostly because of the brilliant ending...

You can read our breakdown of the new trailer here.