Sterling Heights native Thomas Anthony Jankiewicz, who wrote the screen play for the popular movie "Grosse Pointe Blank," died last week after a screening of the film at California State University, San Bernardino, the San Berardino Sun reported.

Jankiewicz, 49, wrote the 1997 film, starring John Cusack, who played a professional assassin returning to Grosse Pointe for his 10-year high school reunion.

"He was always very proud of being from Michigan," his brother Pat Jankiewicz, a freelance writer for Fangoria magazine told Julie Hinds of the Detroit Free Press.

Jankiewicz, a resident of Upland, Calif., had been invited to a showing of the film to a class of about 75 last Wednesday and collapsed during a question and answer session. The Sun, reported he was taken to the San Bernardino Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"He loved to write and he loved to share the joy of writing; that's what he was sharing with the students last night," Pat Jankiewicz told the Sun.