The British screenwriter earned several accolades for the 2010 film, including two BAFTA’s and an Academy Award.
If given the chance, it is exactly as he would have scripted it.
During the voyage, he developed a stutter and wouldnt have a speech therapy breakthrough until he was 16.
David Seidler.Michael Buckner/Getty
This partially inspired him to writeThe Kings Speech, which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Way down in the recesses of my soul, I thought this is the little film that could.
I think this may really be able to get out there.
I had this silent hope that I never expressed because it seemed so ridiculous and so far-fetched."
The film received 12 Oscar nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards and won four, including Best Picture.
The script has since been translated into more than half a dozen languages and performed across four continents.
Plans for the play to head to Broadway fell through in 2020, following the COVID-19 pandemic.
With Arnold Schulman, he cowroteFrancis Ford Coppolas 1988 comedy dramaTucker: The Man and His Dream.
Seidler is survived by his children, Marc and Maya.
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