Coen Brothers to adapt/remake ‘True Grit’

I admit, this may not be exciting news to all the John Wayne fans out there, seeing as this was the ONE movie that won the Duke and Oscar, but for the rest of us this is awesome news!

It may come as no surprise to most of our regular readers that I am a Coen Brothers junkie. I don’t care what they do, I’ll go see it and can say with 99% accuracy that I will love it… period! So, I’m always pumped when I learn what they’re doing next.

Joel and Ethan Coen are about to give another genre their Midas touch as the remake adapt ‘True Grit’ from it’s original source material, being the book by Charles Portis. The 1969 original starring John Wayne was apparently not very faithful to the book and the Coen Bros. plan to offer that in their own version, which will also tell the story from the girl’s point-of-view, rather than the law man’s.

Portis’ novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father’s killer in hostile Indian territory. The original starred Kim Darby as the teen, Wayne and Glen Campbell as the lawmen, Jeff Corey as the killer and featured Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper as fellow outlaws. — Variety

As always, the script was written by the Coen Brothers. The movie will be produced through Paramount by their partner Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men). The Coen Brothers just completed ‘A Serious Man’ for Focus Features/Working Title. ‘True Grit’ has moved up to be their next project, in front of their adaptation of ‘The Yiddish Policemens Union’, a book by Michael Chabon.

[source: Variety]