Logan is still an X-Men movie, and it sill recognizes the fact that certain basic mutant ideas exist within its continuity, but it also takes special care to place a deliberate rift between itself and the other installments in the X-Men franchise.
Hugh Jackman’s comments about Logan to Digital Spy cut to the core of the frustrations that go into the X-Men universe.
Rather than trying to shape and mold Logan’s story to try and force it to adhere to an existing “paradigm” or tonal frame of mind, Jackman and James Mangold decided to make something that genuinely stands on its own.