IS BASED ON…
The Last Detail – Darryl Ponicsan
The film which was written by screenwriter Robert Towne got nominated for three Oscars including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor in a leading Role (Jack Nicholson) and Best Supporting Actor (Randy Quaid).
The Last Detail was Ponicsan’s debut novel and the first to be adapted into a film. Ponicsan wrote a sequel set 30 years after the events in The Last Detail called Last Flag Flying which was published in 2005 and later adapted into a film of the same name and released in 2017.
Ponicsan helped write the screenplay for Last Flag Flying.
