David Ayer on the set of A Working Man. Photo: Dan Smith/Amazon MGM Studios David Ayer, director of A Working Man , has had one of the most deceptively fascinating careers in today’s Hollywood. His early films as a director — Harsh Times , End of Watch , Street Kings — were intense Los Angeles crime dramas very much in the vein of his best-known script, Training Day . They drew on his personal familiarity with this world; after moving around the country as a child, Ayer spent part of his