Jackie Brown Deaky" or "Killshot" and have another director make "Rum Punch", but changed his mind after re-reading "Rum Punch", stating that he "fell in love" with the novel all over again. "Killshot" was later adapted into a film, produced by "Jackie Brown" producer Lawrence Bender. While adapting "Rum Punch" into a screenplay, Tarantino changed the ethnicity of the main character from white to black, as well as renaming her from Burke to Brown, titling the screenplay "Jackie Brown". Tarantino hesitated to discuss the changes with Leonard, finally speaking with Leonard as the film was about to start shooting. Leonard loved the
Quentin Tarantino as the project unfolded. Ticket sales were low despite mostly positive reviews. The same year, he appeared in the Japanese Western film "Sukiyaki Western Django" as Piringo and had a vocal cameo as a newsreader in George A. Romero's "Diary of the Dead". Among Tarantino's producing credits are the horror film "Hostel", which included numerous references to his own "Pulp Fiction"; the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Killshot", for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer, although he was no longer associated with the film after its 2009 release; and "Hell Ride", written and directed by Larry Bishop and Jonny