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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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