Award-winning Bear in mind the Titans screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard has died in Miami, Florida after a quick sickness. He was 70 years previous. In accordance with the Hollywood Reporter, Howard’s publicist confirmed the information and the actor handed away on Friday.
Howard was greatest recognized for writing the script for the 2000 traditional sports activities film Bear in mind the Titans, which starred Denzel Washington and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Based mostly on a real story, the movie follows the story of Herman Boone, a brand new African-American soccer coach as he coaches a highschool staff throughout their first season as a racially built-in group.
Howard started his writing profession on the age of 48, together with his first undertaking being the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet, which was initially assigned to him at Disney, Selection reported. Nevertheless, the movie did not materialize till 2015, when Howard was joined by producers Debra Martin Chase and Daniela Taplin Lundberg, with Kasi Lemmons co-writing the script. Starring Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monae and Joe Alwyn, “Harriet” was launched in 2019.
At Harriet’s purple carpet premiere, Howard instructed The Hollywood Reporter: “What I hoped for greater than something is for the entire business to alter. There needed to be #OscarsSoWhite and [more] Variety in Hollywood. All of that needed to occur, as a result of anybody who gave this film the inexperienced mild was risking their job and/or profession.”
Along with Bear in mind the Titans and Harriet, the author was part of a number of different notable tasks, specifically Ali, The Harlem Renaissance, Misty, and This Little Gentle. Howard obtained a lot reward all through his profession; he’s a two-time winner of the NAACP Picture Award, recipient of the celebrated Christopher Award and Howard College’s Paul Robeson Award for Creative Excellence, Selection reported.
Howard earned a narrative writing credit score for Michael Mann’s “Ali,” the 2001 biopic of sports activities legend Muhammad Ali. The movie, which was nominated for 2 Oscars, starred Will Smith, Jamie Foxx and Jon Voight, based on the Hollywood Reporter.
Howard had a number of tasks in improvement, together with The Magician, a biopic about quarterback Marlin “The Magician” Briscoe.
Howard is survived by his sister Lynette Henley, brother Michael Henley, nieces Robyn Bacon and Valencia Kamara, nephew Robert Henley, a great-niece, two great-nephews, and cousins Pierre Gatling and Patricia Cole, Selection reported.