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Date of Birth

1968, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Height

6' 2½" (1.89 m)

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His movies are frequently set in Los Angeles.

His films often involves the LAPD.

Trivia

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

Wrote numbers of scripts that never got made. Among them: Making the Corps - A boot camp film set in Paris Island for Jersey Films, and Squids - a fantastic thriller set in a submarine for Art Linson, that David Fincher planned to direct during a short time.

Friend and mentor John Wesley Strick (Cape Fear) managed to get him his first big break in Hollywood as a script doctor.

Among his last writing gigs, he revised the DJ Caruso's thriller Taking Lives.

Among his next projects, he plans to write the remakes of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, set in modern day Mexico, and Andre De Toth's Crime Wave, 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.

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."

Salary

Training Day (2001)

$1 million

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