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 filmography who team up for a jewelry heist. It proved to be Tarantino's breakthrough film and was named the "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" by "Empire". His screenplay for Tony Scott's "True Romance" (1993) was nominated for a Saturn Award. In 1994, Tarantino wrote and directed the neo-noir black comedy "Pulp Fiction", a major critical and commercial success. Cited in the media as a defining film of the modern Hollywood, the film earned Tarantino an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Director nomination. Also in 1994, he served as an executive producer for "Killing Zoe" and wrote