New Wponx Image Reveals the Identity of a Major Villain in LOGAN
It’s another dour, depressing, black and white image shared from the Wponx Instagram account granting us a succession of scenes pulled from the color-wrung, scarred and tattered world of LOGAN. This one, although effectively distressing, also reveals the identity of a major villain in LOGAN: meet Dr. Zander Rice, the head surgeon responsible for creating X-23 (at least, that’s how it went in the comics). OBSERVE!
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It was rumored that actor Richard E. Grant might be playing the slightly mad scientist Dr. Rice, so….thanks, Wponx Instagram account, for confirming Grant’s character.
A few interesting things about Dr. Zander Rice:
- As previously mentioned, he led the surgical team responsible for successfully cloning Wolverine and creating the hyperviolent X-23.
2. His father worked on the original Weapon X project and was brutally murdered by an escaping Wolverine while struggling to escape with a briefcase chocked full of vital Weapon X information.
Since an Essex Corp. employee procured some Wolverine blood samples at the end of X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, we’ve been hoping for a connection to Mister Sinister. Could Dr. Rice be under the ostentatiously dressed super-geneticist’s employ? Hmm. Guess we’ll have to wait to find out.
LOGAN currently has a release date of March 3rd, 2017 and stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Merchant, Eriq La Salle and Elise Neal