The unbelievable 26-year journey ‘Harriet’ took from idea to big-screen success

The new biopic of Harriet Tubman is a surprise hit, but it took nearly three decades for a studio to bite. Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard explains his odyssey. It’s hard to imagine that it’s taken this long for Hollywood to give celebrated abolitionist Harriet Tubman her cinematic due, but director Kasi Lemmons’s Harriet marks the first studio feature about the runaway slave turned leader of the Underground Railroad and Civil War hero. Read Full Story