Biography for
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Date of Birth

1968, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Height

6' 2½" (1.89 m)

Trade Mark

His movies are frequently set in Los Angeles

His films often involve the LAPD

Trivia

Spent most of his time as a teenager on the most troubled streets of South Central Los Angeles.

Unproduced scripts: <i>Making the Corps</i>, a boot camp film set on Parris Island for Jersey Films, and <i>Squids</i>, 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.

Revised the script for 'DJ Caruso''s thriller Taking Lives (2004).

Among his next projects, he plans to write remakes of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), set in modern day Mexico, and André De Toth's Crime Wave (1954), a crime drama set in the tough parts of L.A., with Ethan Hawke.

Served in the United States Navy.

His favorite movie is Apocalypse Now (1979).

Personal Quotes

"It was a distortion... a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience... Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements." - on his U-571 screenplay.

Salary

Training Day (2001)

$1 million