{"id":26939,"date":"2013-03-05T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26939"},"modified":"2016-05-22T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T18:44:27","slug":"grosse-pointe-blank-screenwriter-tom-jankiewicz-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/05\/grosse-pointe-blank-screenwriter-tom-jankiewicz-49\/","title":{"rendered":"GROSSE POINTE BLANK Screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz, 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TomJankiewicz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26940\" alt=\"TomJankiewicz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TomJankiewicz-266x300.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Tom Jankiewicz, the Michigan-raised screenwriter who wrote the John Cusack comedy <strong>Grosse Pointe Blank<\/strong>, died January 23rd at San Bernadino Community Hospital in California it was reported by the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160119220644\/http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130201\/ENT01\/302010019\/-Grosse-Pointe-Blank-writer-Tom-Jankiewicz-found-a-place-in-film-history\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Free Press<\/a><\/em> yesterday. Jankiewicz had collapsed at the end of a question-and-answer session following a screening of the film at California State University, San Bernadino. He was 49.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, Jankiewicz drew on many elements from his life there for the 1997 comic film about a hitman who returns to his high school&#8217;s class reunion and reunites with his former girlfriend. The name of the hitman character&#8217;s best friend, played by Jeremy Piven, was originally the name of Jankiewicz&#8217;s best friend from high school while his high school&#8217;s ten year reunion announcement was used almost word for word in the film. The one thing he didn&#8217;t base on real life &#8211; a hired killer returning for his class reunion &#8211; was the one plot element that became urban legend for actually having happened.<\/p>\n<p>Following <strong>Grosse Pointe Blank<\/strong>, Jankiewicz found work as a script doctor on several films. He had spent several years trying to get a project called Kung Fu Theater off the ground. Describing it as a cross between <strong>Pleasantville<\/strong> and the Bruce Lee movie <strong>Enter The Dragon<\/strong>, the comedy centered on a slacker who finds himself trapped in a 1970s Hong Kong martial arts film. Recently, he had been working on a screenplay about a real-life averted nuclear disaster from the early 1960s, the Goldsboro Broken Arrow incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The writer died following an appearance at a screening of his film.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/05\/grosse-pointe-blank-screenwriter-tom-jankiewicz-49\/\" title=\"GROSSE POINTE BLANK Screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz, 49\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[6210,629,6209],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obituary-news","7":"tag-grosse-pointe-blank","8":"tag-john-cusack","9":"tag-tom-jankiewicz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26939"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}