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David Ayer (born 1968) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
, respected for his insight into the dual worlds of L.A.
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 street life and submarines, both of which he knows very well.

was born in Champaign, Illinois
Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago and west of Indianapolis, Indiana....
, grew up in Bloomington, MN and Bethesda, MD. where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in L.A. His experiences in South Central Los Angeles is the inspiration for many of Ayer's films.

wrote the screenplay for crime drama Dark Blue
Dark Blue

Dark Blue is a 2003 in film film directed by Ron Shelton and starring Kurt Russell. The film is based on a story written for film by crime novelist James Ellroy and takes place during the days leading to and including the Rodney King trial verdict....
, and it was his research into the LAPD that led to his most famous script, Training Day
Training Day

Training Day is a 2001 in film crime film film director by Antoine Fuqua,written by David Ayer and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke....
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David Ayer (born 1968) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
, respected for his insight into the dual worlds of L.A.
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 street life and submarines, both of which he knows very well.

Early life

Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois
Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago and west of Indianapolis, Indiana....
, grew up in Bloomington, MN and Bethesda, MD. where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in L.A. His experiences in South Central Los Angeles is the inspiration for many of Ayer's films.

Career


Screenwriting

Ayer wrote the screenplay for crime drama Dark Blue
Dark Blue

Dark Blue is a 2003 in film film directed by Ron Shelton and starring Kurt Russell. The film is based on a story written for film by crime novelist James Ellroy and takes place during the days leading to and including the Rodney King trial verdict....
, and it was his research into the LAPD that led to his most famous script, Training Day
Training Day

Training Day is a 2001 in film crime film film director by Antoine Fuqua,written by David Ayer and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke....
. The film sold for a million dollars and Ayer sold his next script, Squids, for $1.5 million. That story was based on his experiences as a submariner
Submariner

Submariner can mean:*A sailor who is a crewman of a submarine*Namor the Sub-Mariner, a comic-book character in the Marvel Comics Universe*Rolex Submariner, a make of diver's watch...
 in the US Navy, experience that he had earlier put into rewrites of the submarine
Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
 thriller U-571
U-571

U-571 may refer to:* German submarine U-571, a German submarine during World War II* U-571 , a fictional submarine war film released in 2000...
, a fictional account of Americans capturing the Enigma code rather than the British. In an interview broadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
's The Film Programme, Ayer admitted that U-571 distorted history by this assertion, and that he would not do it again. He said he "did not feel good" about that aspect of the story. "It was a distortion", he said, "a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience. Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements."

Ayer signed a contract worth $2 million to write a script for S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T. (film)

S.W.A.T. is a 2003 Action film crime film and is based of the S.W.A.T. . It was directed by Clark Johnson and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez....
 based on his original story pitch. The film was directed by Clark Johnson and released in 2003. He also collaborated on the script for The Fast and the Furious
The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)

The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 in film car film starring Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster and Vin Diesel, and directed by Rob Cohen....
 in 2001.

Directing

Ayer's directorial debut was with the film Harsh Times
Harsh Times

Harsh Times is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States crime film set in South Los Angeles. The film stars Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, and Eva Longoria, and was written and directed by David Ayer, who wrote the script for the Academy Award-winning film Training Day....
. It is a drama set on the streets of South Central Los Angeles and shows how drug use and past military experiences affects peoples' attempts to lead normal lives. Ayer also has directed the crime thriller Street Kings released in 2008.

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