James Mangold (born December 16, 1963 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
He's best known for directing the biopic Walk the Line, the superhero films The Wolverine and Logan, and Sports Story Ford V Ferrari.
He notably studied filming in Miloš Forman's classes.
Filmography:
- Heavy (1995)
- Cop Land (1997)
- Girl, Interrupted (1999)
- Kate & Leopold (2001)
- Identity (2003)
- Walk the Line (2005)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- Knight and Day (2010)
- X-Men Film Series
- The Wolverine (2013)
- Logan (2017)
- Ford V Ferrari (2019)
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
- A Complete Unknown (TBD)
- Star Wars film about the origins of the Jedi Order (TBD)
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- Genre Roulette: Among his works are two crime thrillers (Cop Land and Identity), a psychological drama (Girl, Interrupted), a Fantasy Film Romantic Comedy (Kate & Leopold), a Biopic (Walk the Line), a Western (3:10 to Yuma), two Superhero movies (The Wolverine and Logan), a Sports Story (Ford V Ferrari) and an Adventure movie (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final Indiana Jones film). He then plans to return to the Biopic genre with biopics of both Bob Dylan and Buster Keaton, will return to the Superhero genre by writing and directing an adaptation of the Swamp Thing for James Gunn's DCU and will tackle the Space Opera genre with a Star Wars prequel film exploring the origins of the Jedi and The Force.
- He Also Did: One of his early gigs was as co-writer on animated musical Oliver & Company, and he also served as executive producer for The Greatest Showman and a producer for The Call of the Wild (2020).
- Production Posse:
- On the production side, he frequently works with composer Marco Beltrami, cinematographer Phedon Papamichael and editor Michael McCusker. His wife Cathy Konrad was also his main producer on his works until they divorced in 2014.
- On the acting side of the camera, he's made three films with Hugh Jackman and two films each with Christian Bale, Viola Davis, Ray Liotta, Dallas Roberts, Robert Patrick and Boyd Holbrook.
