Gregory Allen Howard, the award-winning screenwriter of “Remember the Titans,” died Friday in Miami, Fla.
following a brief illness, his publicist confirmed to Variety.
He was 70.Howard was best known for penning the screenplay for the 2000 classic sports film “Remember the Titans,” starring Denzel Washington and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.Born in Norfolk, Va., Howard earned a bachelor’s degree in American history from Princeton University.
Howard discovered the story of the 1971 Tc Williams High School football team, the Titans, on a trip home to Virginia.
Inspired by the story, Howard developed and wrote the screenplay, becoming the first African American screenwriter to script a 100 million drama, and the only African American screenwriter in film history to write a 100 million spec script.Howard began his writing career at the age of 48, with his first project being the Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet,” which was originally assigned to him at Disney.
However,
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