David Ayer

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David Ayer at Comic-Con in San Diego (2017)

David Ayer (* 1968 in Champaign , Illinois ) is an American screenwriter , film director and producer .

Life and career

David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1968 . As a teenager he was kicked out of the house by his parents and then lived with his cousin in Los Angeles . Ayer is best known for his experiences about life in Los Angeles, which has inspired many of his films.

Ayer wrote the screenplay for the thriller Dark Blue and researching the LAPD , the Los Angeles Police Department, produced his most famous work, the screenplay for Training Day , which he sold for a million dollars. His next script, Squids , sold for $ 1.5 million. The script was released as U-571 in 2000 . For this story, a submarine thriller, he drew on his experience as a submarine driver in the US Navy. It is a fictional account of how the Americans cracked the German Enigma code before the British during World War II . However, Ayer emphasized in an interview that he has no intention of twisting the truth in any of his scripts as was the case with U-571. He feels uncomfortable with this aspect of the story. “It was a bias,” says Ayer, “a profitable decision to invent this parallel story to tune it to an American audience. Both of my grandfathers were officers in World War II and I would consider it a personal attack on me if someone falsified their performance. "

Ayer signed a $ 2 million contract to write a script for SWAT - The Special Forces based on his original drafts. The film was directed by Clark Johnson; the film was released in 2003. In 2001 he participated in the script for The Fast and the Furious .

Ayer's debut as a director was Harsh Times . This is a drama that was filmed on the streets of Los Angeles. The film shows how violence affects people's attempts to lead normal lives. His second directorial work, in which he also worked on the script, is the 2008 thriller Street Kings .

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography

Screenwriter

Director

producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC NEWS: U-571 writer regrets 'distortion'
  2. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
personal data
SURNAME Ayer, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Champaign , Illinois , United States