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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 Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the sports drama film Ford v Ferrari (2019), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and directed and co-wrote Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), the fifth and final instalment in the Indiana Jones series. For the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (2024), Mangold was once again nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay and his first nomination for Best Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Mangold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Soon after the ending of WW2, James Howlett is tricked by the government in participating in the Weapon Plus program. The resulting program causes James to lose his memory along with a strong metal known as Adamantium be bonded to his bones. After the procedure, the newly named Weapon X, codenamed Wolverine, joins Team X alongside the other Weapons Plus members. The team is sent into the Soviet Union to take out the Russian’s answer to Weapon Plus known as Omega Red. As the group searches for their target Wolverine’s past slowly comes back to him, leading him down a dark path.
