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David Ayer

David Ayer

Director, Writer

Born
18 January 1968 (58 years old), Champaign, Illinois, USA
On Nahoko
16 titles

David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include Training Day (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and S.W.A.T. (2003). He has also directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), and The Beekeeper (2024). In 2016, he directed the superhero movie Suicide Squad from the DC Extended Universe and then the urban fantasy film Bright (2017) for Netflix. He has twice collaborated with actor Shia LaBeouf: first with the World War II drama Fury (2014), then the crime thriller The Tax Collector (2020). He has also collaborated with his friend Cle Shaheed Sloan, who has appeared in four of his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Ayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known for

Where to stream them · United States

United States: 15 of these titles are streaming · Tubi TV (5), fuboTV (3), Prime Video (3), Philo (2).

Career in numbers

Years active
2000 – 2026
Movies
16
TV shows
0
By decade
2000s: 7, 2010s: 5, 2020s: 4
Main genres
Action (14), Crime (10), Drama (8)

Frequent collaborators

Directed 11

Written 12