---
name: "Will Beall"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-beall"
fi1m_id: "will-beall"
imdb_id: "nm3263825"
tmdb_id: 466391
wikidata_id: "Q8002695"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T14:21:19.074892+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Will Beall

## Identity

Will Beall

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/will-beall
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** will-beall
- **IMDb ID:** nm3263825
- **TMDB ID:** 466391
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8002695
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Beall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8002695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3263825/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/466391

Writer. Born 10 December 1971 in Walnut Creek, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 December 1971, Walnut Creek, California, USA
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Also known as:** William Joshua Beall
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 73 (1), 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 60 (1)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Crime 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Drama 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,557m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Beall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8002695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3263825/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/466391

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Castle*](https://film.one/tv/castle.md) (73), [*Bad Boys: Ride or Die*](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-ride-or-die.md) (60)
- **HBO Max:** [*Aquaman*](https://film.one/film/aquaman.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Will Beall is an American screenwriter and former Los Angeles Police Department detective. After working for ten years as a homicide detective and gang investigator, he published the novel *LA Rex* in 2006 and adapted it as a screenplay.

His feature credits include *Gangster Squad* (2013), *Aquaman* (2018), *Zack Snyder's Justice League* (2021), *Bad Boys: Ride or Die* (2024) and *Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F* (2024). He created the television series *Training Day* (2017) and *Deputy* (2020). He was a story editor on *Castle* (2009–2011).

Beall married producer and writer Elizabeth Davis in 2012.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Bad Boys: Ride or Die* (2024), Fi1m 60, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-ride-or-die.md)
- *Aquaman* (2018), Fi1m 72, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/aquaman.md)
- *Castle* (2009), Fi1m 73, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/castle.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F* (2024), Story, Screenplay
- *Bad Boys: Ride or Die* (2024), Writer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-ride-or-die.md)
- *Zack Snyder's Justice League* (2021), Story
- *Deputy* (2020), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Aquaman* (2018), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/aquaman.md)
- *Training Day* (2017), series, Teleplay, Writer, Creator
- *Gangster Squad* (2013), Writer
- *Castle* (2009), series, Writer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/castle.md)
- *Road House 2*, Writer

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