Remember the Titans (2000): 15 Weird Facts You Didn’t Know!

Remember the Titans (2000) — 15 Weird Facts You Didn’t Know!

#rememberwhen Remember the Titans (2000) made a Virginia high school football team one of the most inspirational sports stories in movie history? Directed by Boaz Yakin and starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Gosling, Donald Faison, and Hayden Panettiere, the Disney classic turned the 1971 T.C. Williams Titans into a story about football, integration, friendship, and leadership. But the true story behind Remember the Titans is much more complicated than what appeared on screen. Discover 15 weird facts, including fictional players and coaches, Denzel Washington taking less money to play Herman Boone, the brutal football camp the cast endured, Disney rejecting the screenplay twice, the truth about Gerry Bertier’s accident, how dominant the real Titans actually were, the darker chapter of Boone’s coaching career the movie skipped, and the troubling history behind the T.C. Williams name.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
02:01 – 15: Three Titans You Remember Were Completely Made Up — Ryan Gosling
03:47 – 14: The Director Who Kept Saying No — Boaz Yakin
04:57 – 13: Losing Julius Campbell Came Back Around 24 Years Later — Omar J. Dorsey
06:11 – 12: Denzel Washington Took Less Money to Play Herman Boone
07:52 – 11: Alexandria Was Mostly Filmed Hundreds of Miles Away — Boaz Yakin
09:13 – 10: The Cast Had to Survive a Real Football Camp — Donald Faison
10:08 – 9: Three Presidents Became Connected to the Titans — Herman Boone
11:26 – 8: Disney Rejected the Screenplay Twice — Gregory Allen Howard
13:03 – 7: Sunshine’s Real-Life Story Took a Dark Turn — Kip Pardue
14:42 – 6: The Real Titans Were Almost Unstoppable — Herman Boone
15:55 – 5: Hollywood Stopped Boone’s Story Eight Years Too Early
17:11 – 4: Disney Changed the Timing of Gerry Bertier’s Accident
18:55 – 3: Cheryl Yost Was Gone Before the Movie Was Filmed — Bill Yost
20:21 – 2: Four Real Titans Were Lost in a Single Year — Herman Boone
21:29 – 1: The Troubling History Behind the T.C. Williams Name — Thomas Chambliss Williams

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