Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, it was released on November 18, 2005, to positive reviews and grossed $187 million worldwide.

Mangold also appeared as an actor in The Sweetest Thing as a doctor and love interest to Christina Applegate as well as in his own Kate & Leopold playing a movie director.

In 2007, Mangold directed the Western 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale; it received positive reviews and grossed around $71 million worldwide.

[17] Following the box office success and moderate critical response to The Wolverine, Mangold signed on to write the story and direct the sequel, Logan (2017).

[22] Logan was a commercial success, and received high praise for its gritty approach on the titular character and emotional depth.

[25] The film, titled Ford v Ferrari, was released in November 2019 to critical acclaim and became a box office success, grossing $225 million worldwide.

[32] In early 2020 Mangold was announced to direct the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with Searchlight Pictures distributing, starring Timothée Chalamet.

[33] In April 2023, Mangold confirmed that the film would likely begin production in August of that year,[34] before plans were suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

So you have to push something to someplace new, while also remembering the core reasons why everyone was gathered" to make the best story with those issues at its heart, being the approach he employed for Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

[42] In regards to adapting material, Mangold described that in regards to a biographical film, he can interpret the known quantities as he sees better like he did in A Complete Unknown, but the process is more difficult with a big and existing franchise or IP like the Swamp Thing, as he knows the "religious level" the property's fans may reach like the DC Comics ones in regards to how he adapts such franchise's lore, thus resulting on him focusing on what he wishes to do for his DC Universe (DCU) film even if his decisions bother fans due to not letting himself be "handcuffed" by a franchise's lore due to being impossible to please everybody.