Quentin Tarantino a "comeback" for Grier and costar Robert Forster. Leonard considered "Jackie Brown" to be his favorite of the 26 different screen adaptations of his novels and short stories. In December 1999, Tarantino was slated to write and direct a film adaptation of Iron Man for New Line Cinema. Nothing came about the said project until 2008 when Marvel Studios released "a film adaptation of Iron Man". Tarantino had next planned to make "Inglourious Basterds", as it was provisionally titled, but postponed this to write and direct "Kill Bill", a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of "Wuxia" (Chinese
Quentin Tarantino in essays and dissertations on film that had been marked in the previous five years. It revealed that Tarantino was the most-studied director in the UK, ahead of Christopher Nolan, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. In a 1996 interview with critic J. Hoberman, Tarantino said "If I had a gun and a 12-year-old kid broke into this house ... I would kill him. You have no right to come into my house ... I would empty the gun until you were dead." Tarantino has stated that he does not believe that violence in movies inspires acts of violence