Kevin Jarre Has a Posse

Kevin Jarre
August 6, 1954 – April 3, 2011
Who was Kevin Jarre...?

Excerpt from AICN post:

There's only 5 feature film scripts credited to Kevin - Including RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, GLORY, TOMBSTONE, THE DEVIL'S OWN & THE MUMMY... But none of those films quite lives up to Jarre's words. The closest being TOMBSTONE...

Kevin Jarre was a man that wrote fantastic scripts, you'd read them and then watch as something went wrong. Like on THE DEVIL'S OWN, when the producers decided to completely rework the script solely to get Harrison Ford's part on equal footing with Brad Pitt's character - when originally, it was a brilliantly focused, perfectly balanced story about a young man choosing a very dark path. It was perhaps Kevin's best script - he received two credits on the film, one for story and one for screenplay. Sadly, the screenplay barely resembled the end product. Fantastic scenes were nixed along the way on GLORY. THE MUMMY became an entirely different film being an out and out period horror film.

And he's one of the fortunate ones: a screenwriter whose work has actually been produced.

Died of a heart attack in L.A. I'm a screenwriter and I had no awareness of this guy's life or death. Just passed under the radar.

And this is one of the better case scenarios I've got to look forward to...?