David Ayer filmography and biography
Date of birth: 1968, Champaign, Illinois, USA
David Ayer trivia
- Spent most of his time as a teenager on the most troubled streets of
South Central, Los Angeles.
- Wrote numbers of scripts that never got made. Among them: Making the
Corps - A boot camp film set in Paris Island for Jersey Films, and
Squids - a fantastic thriller set in a submarine for Art Linson, that
David Fincher planned to direct during a short time.
- Friend and mentor John Wesley Strick (Cape Fear) managed to get him his
first big break in Hollywood as a script doctor.
- Among his last writing gigs, he revised the DJ Caruso's thriller Taking
Lives.
- Among his next projects, he plans to write the remakes of Sam
Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, set in modern day Mexico, and Andre De
Toth's Crime Wave, a crime drama set in the tough parts of L.A., with
Ethan Hawke.
- Served in the United States Navy.
- His favorite movie is Apocalypse Now.
David Ayer quotes
- "It was a distortion... 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."
- "It was a distortion... 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." - on his U-571
screenplay.
David Ayer filmography
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Under Surveillance: Inside the World of Street Kings | 2008 |
| The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry | 2008 |
| The Evolution of Clint Eastwood | 2008 |
| The Craft of Dirty Harry | 2008 |
| The Business End: Violence in Cinema | 2008 |
| A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry | 2008 |
| Street Kings | 2008 |
| Blue Code | 2003 |
| Training Day | 2001 |
| HBO First Look | 1992 |