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Known for
Writer
Gender
Male
Birthday
24 October
Location
California, United States
Edit pageDavid Callaham
Biography
David Elias Callaham (born October 24, 1977) is an American screenwriter and producer.
Callaham was born in Fresno, California on October 24, 1977, to Lee Hsu and Michael Callaham. He has a brother, Gregory.
He is of Chinese descent through his mother. He studied English at the University of Michigan and graduated in 1999. In 2009, Callaham married Bree Tichy.
They have at least one child. He is a Brown Belt in 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu under Eddie Bravo.
After reading an article in Penthouse magazine focusing on the lifestyle of Hollywood TV writers, Callaham, and a friend moved to Los Angeles with plans to write comedies together.
They sent query letters to multiple agencies but never received responses. Callaham worked at Creative Artists Agency for a while, sometimes submitting his material secretly for coverage.
In 2003, Callaham wrote the film adaptation of the video game Doom and submitted it in the summer of 2005. Around that time, Callaham wrote Barrow for Warner Bros., a mercenary-inspired action script that later became The Expendables.
Callaham was credited for the story and characters after Sylvester Stallone used Callaham's Barrow script as a "starting point" for The Expendables.
In 2010, Legendary Pictures hired Callaham to write the first draft of Godzilla, for which he received a story credit. In 2014, Callaham completed a production rewrite for Ant-Man, and in 2019, he co-wrote the Zombieland sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap, for Sony.
He also worked on the yet-unproduced Jackpot for Focus Features and America: The Motion Picture for Netflix.
