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
Killshot (film) 1989 novel "Killshot" by Elmore Leonard began development as early as May 1997 under Miramax Films, which had optioned Leonard's novel. By September 2004, the adaptation entered active development, with director John Madden expressing interest in helming. By January 2005, The Weinstein Company hired Madden to direct the film based on a script by Hossein Amini. The following August, actors Diane Lane, Thomas Jane, and Mickey Rourke were cast in the lead roles. In September, actors Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Johnny Knoxville were cast. Actress Sandra Bullock was originally considered for the role taken by Lane, while John Travolta,