Bio: David Ayer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then 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 then enlisted in the United States Navy as a submariner.
Tivia: Served in the United States Navy.Spent most of his time as a teenager on the most troubled streets of South Central Los Angeles.His favorite movie is Apocalypse Now (1979).Main characters are often anti-heroes.He dropped out of high school.His movies often reference the US Military (The US Navy in U-571 (2000), Christian Bale's character Jim Davis was a former US Army Ranger who served in the Gulf War in Harsh Times (2005), Jake Gyllenhaal's character Brian Taylor is a former US Marine turned LAPD Officer in End of Watch (2012), and the US Army in Fury (2014).He used to work as a house painter and electrician.Did an uncredited re-write on X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).He was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager.Unproduced scripts: 'Making the Corps', a boot camp film set on Parris Island for Jersey Films, and 'Squids', a fantastic thriller set in a submarine for Art Linson, that David Fincher planned to direct for a short time.Friend and mentor Wesley Strick managed to get him his first big break in Hollywood as a script doctor.Among his next projects, he plans to write remakes of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), set in modern day Mexico, and Andr�� De Toth's Crime Wave (1953), a crime drama set in the tough parts of L.A., with Ethan Hawke.Revised the script for 'DJ Caruso''s thriller Taking Lives (2004).In Spanish, David's last name means "yesterday".