Logan Director Reveals Film Will Be Getting a Black And White Release

Black And White And Red All Over

♦Logan director James Mangold yesterday confirmed on Twitter the theatrical release date for a black and white version of the film. Logan, the film that capped off Hugh Jackman’s decade-long run as the savage X-Men character Wolverine, will see a black and white rerelease in cinemas on 16 May, exclusively in the United States…

Suggestion. Hard core B&W loving LOGAN fans should not make any plans on the evening of May 16th.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) April 28, 2017

Black and white imagery played a major role in marketing the film, which saw a series of high-contrast, black and white photographs of the film’s main cast released weeks before hitting cinemas. Black and white rereleases of popular action films have become a little bit of a trend in Hollywood lately. George Miller’s latest entry into the Mad Max franchise got new, monochromatic life in the form of Max Max: Black and Chrome, which was made available in the Mad Max: High Octane anthology and digitally.

One Twitter user responded to Mangold, asking if viewers could just turn down the colour settings on their televisions to achieve the same effect. Mangold noted that, in order to make a great black and white version of a film, the entire movie needs to be regraded and timed shot by shot — an overall effect that simply can’t be emulated by merely changing settings on a television.

The version will also ship on certain home cinema versions of the film, but it looks like mid-May is the only time to catch Logan’s black and white version in cinemas. It is uncertain whether it is getting a UK release currently in cinemas over here.

Thanks to cbr.com for all the information.