Is there a way to stop/pause producers from writing?

Is there a tool or way using the Kafka admin api to tell a producer to
stop/pause writing to a specific topic?

The use case is basically we need to stop writing to a topic, let the
consumers get caught up and then deploy some new code either for the
producers or consumers. Our producers will have a way of internally
queuing up messages until we finish the deploy and bring the topic back up.

Thanks!