{"id":9407,"date":"2010-08-03T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:59:02","slug":"superman-james-bond-screenwriter-tom-mankiewicz-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/superman-james-bond-screenwriter-tom-mankiewicz-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPERMAN, JAMES BOND Screenwriter Mankiewicz Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tom-Mankiewicz-200x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9408\" title=\"Tom-Mankiewicz-200x0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tom-Mankiewicz-200x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a>Hollywood screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz has died from complications due to pancreatic cancer. He was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Mankiewicz, the son of legendary screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, started his career in New York. His book for the 1970\u00a0musical adaptation of <strong>Georgy Girl <\/strong>caught the attention of Bond producer Albert R. &#8220;Cubby&#8221; Broccoli. Broccoli would hire Mankiewicz to do a rewrite on 1971&#8217;s<strong> Diamonds Are Forever<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mankiewicz would return to the Bond franchise, writing full scripts on <strong>Live and Let Die<\/strong> and <strong>The Man With the Golden Gun<\/strong> and doing rewrites on <strong>The Spy Who Loved Me<\/strong> and <strong>Moonraker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>in 1978, Mankiewicz was tapped to do a rewrite on <strong>Superman <\/strong>and <strong>Superman II<\/strong>. He worked on the project for a year and due to Writers Guild of America rules was credited as a &#8220;creative consultant&#8221; instead of a screenwriter. Mankiewicz would work with Donner again on 1985&#8217;s <strong>Ladyhawke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mankiewicz also worked behind the scenes as a director, writing and directing the 1987\u00a0film adaptation of <strong>Dragnet<\/strong> and directing\u00a0the 1991 John Candy vehicle <strong>Delirious<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the small screen, Mankiewicz co-wrote and directed the pilot episode of <strong>Hart to Hart<\/strong> and acted as a creative consultant through the series&#8217; run.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100812130947\/http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-tom-mankiewicz-20100803,0,4649792,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Hollywood screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz has died from complications due to pancreatic cancer. He was 68. Mankiewicz, the son of legendary screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, started his career in New York. His book for the 1970\u00a0musical <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/superman-james-bond-screenwriter-tom-mankiewicz-has-died\/\" title=\"SUPERMAN, JAMES BOND Screenwriter Mankiewicz Has Died\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9408,"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":[84,133],"tags":[3015,3024,3014,3022,3012,3025,501,3023,3013,3021,3016,3019,59,186,374,3020,3017,3018,3011],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-obituary-news","9":"tag-albert-cubby-broccoli","10":"tag-delirious","11":"tag-diamonds-are-forever","12":"tag-dragnet","13":"tag-georgy-girl","14":"tag-hart-to-hart","15":"tag-james-bond","16":"tag-john-candy","17":"tag-joseph-l-mankiewicz","18":"tag-ladyhawke","19":"tag-live-and-let-die","20":"tag-moonraker","21":"tag-obituary","22":"tag-richard-donner","23":"tag-superman","24":"tag-superman-ii","25":"tag-the-man-with-the-golden-gun","26":"tag-the-spy-who-loved-me","27":"tag-tom-mankiewicz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}