Rum Punch Rum Punch Rum Punch is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The novel was adapted into the film "Jackie Brown" (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino, although the movie changed the setting to Los Angeles. The characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara first appeared in Leonard's novel, "The Switch", which itself has also been adapted as a film, "Life of Crime", first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by Mos Def and Gara portrayed by John Hawkes. Set in both West Palm Beach and Miami, "Rum Punch" follows Jackie Burke, a forty-four-year-old stewardess for a
Quentin Tarantino starring Duane Whitaker in the title role. Tarantino's screenplay "True Romance" was optioned and the film was eventually released in 1993. The second script that Tarantino sold was for the film "Natural Born Killers", which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Tarantino was given story credit and in an interview stated that he wished the film well, but later disowned the final film. The film engendered enmity, and the publication of a 'tell all' book titled "Killer Instinct" by Jane Hamsher—who with Don Murphy had an original option on the screenplay and produced the film—led