I mean, for me, I wanted to make a movie that was not just a comic movie, but was actually a movie that functioned as a drama and as a Western, so it’s inspired by everything from Shane, Unforgiven, The Gauntlet, Paper Moon, but also the ideas of samurai pictures like Yojimbo, about a lone warrior dealing with the end of his career, about a surrogate father kind of story.
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.
— James Mangold · Fandango: Mangold on the Many Influences that Shaped 'Logan'
Films That Influenced Logan
