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 segment of "The Man from Hollywood", a tribute to the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode "Man From the South". Tarantino later played the role of the Groom in the music video "Dance Me to the End of Love" by Leonard Cohen. Later in 1995, he hosted a "Saturday Night Live" episode featuring The Smashing Pumpkins. Tarantino appeared in and wrote the script for Rodriguez's "From Dusk till Dawn" (1996), which saw average reviews from the critics. It nevertheless quickly reached cult status, spawning a continuing saga of two sequels, for which Tarantino and Rodriguez only served as executive producers, and later