David Seidler, the screenwriter of the Oscar-winning film The king’s speech, died Saturday while fly fishing in New Zealand. Seidler was 86 years old.
“David was in the place he loved most in the world, New Zealand, doing what gave him the most peace: fly fishing,” his manager Jeff Aghassi said in a statement. “If he had the chance, it’s exactly how he would have written it.”
David Seidler won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for The king’s speech a film directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. The historical drama also won awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.
David Seidler wrote ‘The King’s Speech’ while battling throat cancer
Seidler, who stuttered, was always interested in the story behind King George VI’s overcoming his speech impediment. After extensive research, David Seidler began writing The king’s speech in 2005 after a battle with throat cancer.
Shortly afterward he completed the first draft of the script. However, Seidler said Film critic in 2011 that his ex-wife and writing partner suggested a rewrite as a play exercise. She thought the limitations of the setting would help her focus on the story’s crucial relationships without being distracted by cinematic techniques.
The king’s speech The play has been translated into more than half a dozen languages and performed on four continents. After being staged at Wyndham’s Theater in London’s West End in 2012, the play was headed to Broadway. However, the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly halted these plans in 2020.
During his career, Seidler contributed to a variety of projects, such as animated children’s musicals. The King and I, Camelot Questand Madeline: Lost in Paris.
Seidler received his inaugural Writers’ Guild Award for the 1988 biopic. Onassis: the richest man in the world. The film starred Raúl Julia as the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. He also collaborated on Francis Ford Coppola’s 1988 film. Tucker: the man and his dream.
He wrote several films for television, including Whose child is this? The war over baby Jessica, Come On, Be Happy: The Partridge Family Storyand By the first light of dawn. Seidler also wrote episodes for television series such as days of our lives, General Hospitaland The wonderful world of Disney.
Seidler is survived by his older children, Marc and Maya.
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