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Street Kings reunites director David Ayer with writer James Ellroy, who collaborated on the screenplay for 2002's Dark Blue. Actually, to be more accurate, it was not so much a collaboration as a rewrite job by Ayer on Ellroy's original screenplay The Plague Season. Like Dark Blue, the script for this movie was written by Ellroy in the early '90s, and spent years in development. Unlike that film, which was conceived as a period piece taking place during the 1965 Watts riots, then updated to the '90s for budgetary reasons, Street Kings was always meant to be a contemporary story.
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