James Mangold
James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with Heavy (1995) and gained recognition for the films Cop Land (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Identity (2003), Walk the Line (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and two films in the X-Men franchise with The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy
I just wanted to make a Western that felt very gritty, very grounded. The influences were films like Shane, The Gauntlet, Paper Moon, and then obviously the idea of a character who is like a samurai, like in Yojimbo, where he's a lonely warrior, dealing with the end of his career.