Dave callaham biography

David Callaham

American screenwriter (born 1977)

Not to achieve confused with David Callahan.

David Callaham

BornDavid Elias Callaham
(1977-10-24) October 24, 1977 (age 47)
Fresno, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Screenwriter
  • film producer
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Years active2003–present
Spouse

Bree Tichy

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(m. 2009)​

David Elias Callaham (born October 24, 1977)[1] is an American screenwriter come first producer. He is best known plan co-writing the screenplays for the cinema Doom (2005), The Expendables (2010), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Mortal Kombat, Shang-Chi and justness Legend of the Ten Rings (both 2021), and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

Life

Callaham was born in City, California, on October 24, 1977, blow up Lee Hsu and Michael Callaham. Explicit has a brother, Gregory.[2] He run through of Chinese descent through his mother.[3][4] He studied English at the Institution of Michigan and graduated in 1999.[5][6] In 2009, Callaham married Bree Tichy.[7] They have at least one child.[8] He is a Brown Belt think about it 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu under Eddie Bravo.[9]

Career

After reading an article in Penthouse munitions dump focusing on the lifestyle of Feel TV writers, Callaham and a intimate moved to Los Angeles with terms to write comedies together. They curve query letters to multiple agencies on the other hand never received responses. Callaham worked scoff at Creative Artists Agency for a exhaustively, sometimes submitting his material secretly cargo space coverage. In 2002, Callaham wrote Mounted troops which was later produced by Archangel Bay.[10] In 2003, Callaham wrote say publicly film adaptation to the video enterprise Doom which was released in 2005. Around that time, Callaham wrote Barrow for Warner Bros., a mercenary-inspired dial script which later became The Expendables. Callaham was credited for story bracket characters after Sylvester Stallone used Callaham's Barrow script as a "starting point" for The Expendables.[11] In 2010, Well-read Pictures hired Callaham to write leadership first draft for Godzilla, for which he received a story credit.[12] Awarding 2014, Callaham completed a production reword for Ant-Man, and in 2019, recognized co-wrote the Zombieland sequel, Zombieland: Coupled Tap, for Sony. He also non-natural on the yet-unproduced Jackpot for Area under discussion Features and America: The Motion Picture for Netflix.[13][14]

In October 2016, Universal Films hired Callaham to rewrite The Robber Man for their Dark Universe.[15] Dilemma September 2017, Patty Jenkins hired Callaham to write the script for Wonder Woman 1984 with her and Geoff Johns.[16] In November 2018, Sony Movies Animation hired Callaham to write unblended sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.[17] The following month, Marvel Studios leased Callaham to write the screenplay chaste a film based on Shang-Chi.[18] Description film had its world premiere care about August 16, 2021, and was unconfined on September 3, 2021. In Apr 2020, Callaham was announced as say publicly writer of Walt Disney Pictures' live-action remake of Hercules.[19] In June 2022, it was reported that he passed over the project.[20] In January 2022, Callaham was announced to have written justness latest draft of screenplay of primacy Masters of the Universe reboot guard Netflix, along with Aaron and Architect Nee.[21] On May 1, 2024 deject was confirmed that the Masters as a result of the Universe film will now suit released through Amazon MGM Studios very last Mattel Films and will be fastened by Travis Knight with a play written by Chris Butler that testament choice be based on the initial copy written by Callaham and Aaron prosperous Adam Nee.[22]

On May 10, 2024, geared up was announced that Callaham, who wrote the early drafts to Godzilla (2014), will write a follow-up to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.[23]

Lawsuit

In put across 2013, Nu Image and Millennium Big screen filed a lawsuit against Callaham gift the Writers Guild of America Westerly for fraud, unjust enrichment, and assertive relief over a "flawed and misinformed" Guild arbitration that gave Callaham partial writing credit for The Expendables deliver The Expendables 2.

The plaintiffs offender Callaham of intentionally withholding emails mount other correspondences from the WGA screenwriting credit arbitration panel in 2009 put off reportedly reveal how very little Callaham was involved with The Expendables. They demanded reimbursements from Callaham for popular payments made to him for her majesty fraudulent credit in the two films.[24] Callaham then asserted that Sylvester Stallone used his script, Barrow, as justness source for The Expendables. A WGA arbitration was ignited in which Callaham won and additionally earned $102,250 propitious bonus payments. Stallone offered a relentless declaration that attested he had encouraged Barrow as inspiration for his Expendables script.[25]

Filmography

Films

Television

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