David Ayer was born on January 18,1968 and is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption.
21 Facts About David Ayer
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David Ayer has directed Harsh Times, Street Kings, End of Watch, and Sabotage.
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David Ayer has twice collaborated with actor Shia LaBeouf: first with the World War II drama Fury, then the crime thriller The Tax Collector.
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David Ayer has collaborated with his friend Cle Shaheed Sloan who has appeared in four of his films.
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David Ayer lived with his cousin in Los Angeles, California, where his experiences in South Central Los Angeles became the inspiration for many of his films.
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David Ayer dropped out of high school and painted houses for a living.
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David Ayer enlisted in the United States Navy as a submarine sonar technician aboard the USS Haddo.
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David Ayer collaborated on the screenplay for The Fast and the Furious in 2001.
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David Ayer wrote the screenplay for crime drama Dark Blue, and it was his research into the Los Angeles Police Department that led to his most prominent screenplay, Training Day.
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In 2006, screenwriter David Ayer admitted that U-571 had distorted history, and said that he would not do it again.
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David Ayer went on to direct the action thriller Street Kings, which was released in 2008.
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David Ayer later wrote and directed End of Watch, an action thriller about the daily lives of two South Central Los Angeles policemen, played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena.
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David Ayer wrote and directed the World War II-set action film, Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf and Logan Lerman; the film was released in October 2014.
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David Ayer wrote and directed the film adaptation of the comic book Suicide Squad, which was released on August 5,2016.
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The film, along with David Ayer's directing, received negative reviews, though it became his most commercially successful film to date.
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David Ayer directed Bright, "a contemporary cop thriller, but with fantastical elements", starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton with a script penned by Max Landis that David Ayer rewrote.
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On January 3,2018, Netflix confirmed they were moving ahead with the sequel for Bright, with Smith and Edgerton reprising their roles and David Ayer directing and writing the script with Evan Spiliotopoulos, the filming of which began in March 2019.
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On December 13,2016, David Ayer was brought on board to direct the spin-off of Suicide Squad, Gotham City Sirens, which evolved into Birds of Prey, directed by Cathy Yan, and starring Margot Robbie reprising her role of Harley Quinn.
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David Ayer was contracted by Universal Pictures to direct a remake of Scarface starring Diego Luna, but was let go because his script was too violent.
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David Ayer established Cedar Park Entertainment on January 4,2018, with former head of programming at Audience Network, Chris Long.
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In May 2022, David Ayer signed on to direct action thriller The Beekeeper for Miramax, written by Kurt Wimmer and starring Jason Statham, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer later acquiring domestic distribution rights.