David Ayer Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland
• Served as a Submarine Sonar Technician for the United States Navy from 1986 to 1988
• Got his first big break in Hollywood as a script doctor with the help of his friend and mentor Wesley Strick, an accomplished fellow screenwriter
• Lived with cousin on the troubled streets of South Central Los Angeles as a teen, and his experiences have become the inspiration for many of his films
• Adapted the book Making the Corps, which focuses on a Marine Corps Boot Camp, into a screenplay, but the film was never produced