David Ayer

At 56 years old, David Ayer has this physical status:

David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

He wrote Training Day (2001), co-wrote The Fast and the Furious (2001), and directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), Fury (2014), Suicide Squad (2016) and Bright (2017).

Early life

Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois, on January 18, 1968, and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. 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. Ayer dropped out of high school and painted houses for a living. Ayer enlisted in the United States Navy as a submarine sonar technician (STS) aboard the USS Haddo (SSN-604)

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Career

U-571, Ayer's screenplay, was based on his service as a submariner in the US Navy. In 2001, Ayer co-produced The Fast and Furious's screenplay. Ayer wrote the screenplay for crime drama Dark Blue, and it was his investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department that culminated in his most famous screenplay, Training Day. Ayer wrote a screenplay for S.W.A.T., which was based on his original story line. Clark Johnson produced the film in 2003 and was released in 2003.

In 2006, screenwriter David Ayer admitted that U-571 had changed history and that he would not do it again. He told BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme that he "did not feel good" about claiming that Americans rather than the British had captured the naval Enigma cipher: "It was a mistake" to create this parallel history in order to propel the film for an American audience. Both my grandparents served in the Second World War, and I'd be personally offended if someone mistook their achievements."

Ayer's debutorial work with the film Harsh Times, an action-drama set on the streets of South Central Los Angeles, revealing how drug use and military history can influence people's attempts to lead everyday lives. He went on to direct the action thriller Street Kings, which was released in 2008.

Ayer wrote and directed End of Watch, an action thriller based on two South Central Los Angeles policemen portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pea's daily lives. The film was released in the fall of 2012 to positive box-office returns and warm reception from critics, with Roger Ebert naming it as the fourth-best film of 2012 and lauding it as "one of the finest police movies in recent years." Arnold Schwarzenegger was the lead in his next film, Sabotage; it was released on March 28, 2014. Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, and Logan Lerman, was released in October 2014. He wrote and directed the World War II-set action film.

The film version of Suicide Squad by Ayer and others was released on August 5, 2016. Although the film, along with Ayer's directing, received critical feedback, it became his most commercially lucrative film to date.

Ayer also directed Bright, "a contemporary cop thriller, but with fantastical elements," starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, which Ayer wrote. The film was bought by Netflix for $90 million. On December 22, 2017, the film was released. Netflix announced on January 3, 2018, they were going forward with the sequel for Bright, with Smith and Edgerton reprising their roles, and Ayer directing and writing the script with Evan Spiliotopoulos, which began in March 2019. Will Smith's availability was never to happen, and Louise Leterrier was swapped with Louise Leterrier on May 5, 2020, as David Ayer decided on The Dirty Dozen for Warner Brothers.

Ayer was brought on board to direct the spin-off of Suicide Squad, Gotham City Sirens, directed by Cathy Yann, and Margot Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn on December 13, 2016. Gotham City Sirens continued to expand, but Gotham City Sirens was put on hold as of April 2021.

Universal Pictures had agreed to produce a sequel to Scarface starring Diego Luna, but he was refused because his script was too violent.

On January 4, 2018, Ayer founded Cedar Park Entertainment with Chris Long, the former head of programming at Audience Network. Primarily established to produce films and television shows, Cedar Park's first film was entitled The Tax Collector, Ayer's second film with actress Shia LaBeouf in 2020. Its first look at Entertainment One's website on June 21, 2018, and it will include TV shows, both scripted and unscripted.

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