Zander Rice

When the news first broke that Richard E. Grant would appear in Logan, everybody believed that he would play Mister Sinister, one of many villains not mentioned so far in the X-Men franchise. As it turned out, the actor would portray a different character: Dr. Zander Rice, who was X-23’s creator.

Like all of the comic book mad scientists, Rice is also pretty brutal and lacking in morals.

However, there is another secret connection between Rice and Wolverine, one that wasn’t explored in Logan until the very end. And this connection is that Zander Rice’s father worked on the Weapon X program that produced Wolverine.

As we saw in the X-Men: Apocalypse cameo, Logan spared nobody in his rage when he escaped the program. So, for Zander Rice, the experiments on mutants were actually a personal vendetta. We don’t know about you, but this little detail (pulled from the comics, of course) gave the character even more depth.