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
Quentin Tarantino of "". For this episode, Tarantino was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series on the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards. Also in 2005 he played himself in "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz", as Kermit the Frog's director. Shortly after, he voiced the character of Master Moloch in the "Looney Tunes"' based show "Duck Dodgers." Tarantino's next film project was "Grindhouse", which he co-directed with Rodriguez. Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the "Grindhouse" project was titled "Death Proof". It began as a take on 1970s slasher films, but evolved dramatically