John Wayne's True Grit - A Coen Bros remake

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Looks like the Coen brothers are going back to western based thrillers after the comedy Burn After Reading.

Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men directors Joel and Ethan Coen will remake the classic western True Grit for their next film, according to Variety.

The original starred the mighty John Wayne, who played an aging U.S. Marshal who, along with a 14 year old girl, tracked the killer of the teen's father in hostile Indian territory.

Apparently, the Coen's will revisit the original source material (a novel by Charles Portis) and switch the perspective to the girl's point of view.

[fortunato]

Ah, yes. I remember hearing about this.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with the source material.

[Zero]

this doesn't bother me - could be worthwhile

[massacre man]

Coen Brothers, I'm in.

[illdojo]

Coen Brothers, I'm in.

Ditto. ..........................

[scouse mac]

Never had any time for John Wayne so interested in a retelling.

Coen Bros dont always get it right but when they do its usually fantastic.

[sfear]

If not for Glen Campbell True Grit would have been perfect. A remake seems a not very worthwhile endeavor.

[newb]

I'm kinda hoping they get John Wayne to do at least a cameo........a zombie True Grit would be da bomb.

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In what is shaping up as a potential “Big Lebowski” reunion, Jeff Bridges is in discussions with Paramount to star for Joel and Ethan Coen in “True Grit,” playing the role that won John Wayne an Oscar in the 1969 film.

Bridges, who last worked with the Coens when he turned in a heralded performance as Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, is in talks to play the lead role in the iconic Western that the Coens are mounting as their next project.

The picture, which also reunited the Coens with their “No Country for Old Men” producing partner Scott Rudin, has been redrafted by the Coens to be more faithful to the Charles Portis novel that the original film was based on.

In it, a 14 year old girl tags along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman to track the outlaw who killed her father. The trail leads them into hostile Indian territory. The original told the story from Cogburn’s vantage point, but the new version will work from the viewpoint of the young girl. Kim Darby played the young girl in the original, and Glen Campbell played the other lawman.

The Coens premiere “A Serious Man” at the Toronto Film Festival. Bridges most recently starred in “The Men Who Stare At Goats” and reprised in “Tron Legacy.”

[massacre man]

Damon and Brolin are in too, Hellll yeah!

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Looks like the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit is going to have its fair share of true glamour, following the news that A-listers Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to join Jeff Bridges in the Western drama.

Bridges, of course, has been attached for some time to the project as Rooster Cogburn, the irascible lawman role that bagged John Wayne his solitary Oscar back in 1969.

Damon is in talks to join him as La Beouf, the lawman who accompanies Cogburn and his fourteen year-old niece, Mattie, on a perilous trek through Indian country in an attempt to find the killer of Mattie’s father.

Brolin, who famously donned a white hat for the Coens in No Country For Old Men, will don a black hat this time around to play the killer, Tom Chaney, played by Jeff Corey in the Henry Hathaway film.

The key role of Mattie who, as per the Charles Portis novel on which the Coens will be basing their movie, is the narrator and ostensible main character, has yet to be filled, but with a March start date looming, expect that situation to change soon.

As for today’s casting, it’s potentially brilliant. Brolin makes a great good guy, but there’s a turmoil beneath the surface that should make him perfect for the Chaney role, while frankly it’s about time that Damon and the Coens hooked up.

True Grit, which will be produced by the Coens along with fellow heavy hitters, Scott Rudin and Steven Spielberg, will be funded by Paramount Pictures, and is already set for Oscar-bothering release late next year.

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The Coen Brothers’ remake of the classic “True Grit” for Paramount Pictures will be hitting theaters on Christmas Day of 2010.

The remake of the 1969 western stars Jeff Bridges as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, the character initially played by John Wayne.

Matt Damon will also star as the lawman who teams up with Cogburn in the tale of vengeance when a young girl hires two gunslingers to help her track down the former ranch hand who killed her father. with one glad to take his life and the other hoping to collect a bounty.

Along with Wayne, the original film also starred Glenn Campbell and Kim Darby.

The film is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Charles Portis.

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[newb]

I'm thinking this is gonna be pretty fucking sweet

[massacre man]

Give it to me now.

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