James Mangold Breaks Down Logan's Success

“Logan” made Oscar history by becoming the first ever superhero movie to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay — and writer/director James Mangold says they key to its success was focusing on what Logan fears most.
It isn’t Sentinels, Sabretooth, or any of the legion of foes he’s dispatched over the decades.
“For us, ‘Logan’ was always going to be a dramatic character piece,” Mangold, who wrote the film with Scott Frank and Michael Green, told TheWrap.