Quentin Tarantino a 2014 television series, "", for which he received a "based on" credit. Also in 1996, he played a supporting role in Spike Lee's "Girl 6". He was also an executive producer for the film "Curdled". Finally that year he starred in "Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair", a simulation video game that uses pre-generated film clips. Tarantino's third feature film was "Jackie Brown" (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch". A homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of the films of that genre in the 1970s. It received positive reviews and was called
Elmore Leonard (1984), starring Robert Mitchum and, two years later, under its original title starring Roy Scheider. Leonard has also written several screenplays based on his novels, plus original screenplays such as "Joe Kidd" (1972). The film "Hombre" (1967), starring Paul Newman, was an adaptation of Leonard's 1961 novel of the same name. His short story "Three-Ten to Yuma" (March 1953) and novels "The Big Bounce" (1969) and "52 Pick-Up" have each been filmed twice. Other novels filmed include: Quentin Tarantino has optioned the right to adapt Leonard's novel "Forty Lashes Less One" (1972). Elmore Leonard Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11,