Does Jeff Bridges have ‘True Grit’ for the Coen Bros?

Joel and Ethan Coen are gearing up for their first stab at the western genre, remaking the classic TRUE GRIT. Jeff Bridges is currently in negotiations to fill John Wayne’s Oscar-winning shoes as the lead role in the story. Bridges and the Coen Brothers last worked together on THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

The brothers Coen have apparently re-written the screenplay for their version to be more faithful to Charles Portis’ novel than the original 1969 film had been. The story follows Rooster Cogburn, an aging US Marshall, and a young girl as they track down the killer that murdered the girl’s father. The original film told the story from Cogburn’s perspective, however the Coen Brothers are switching POV and telling the story from the girl’s perspective.

I wouldn’t mind seeing this come to fruitition at all. Jeff Bridges is a great actor, familiar with the Coen Brothers and isn’t foreign to the western genre. Bridges’ first role in a western was as Jake Rumsey in Robert Benton’s 1972 genre piece BAD COMPANY, later to play Wild Bill Kickock in 1995 for Walter Hill in WILD BILL. Without a doubt, this new version of TRUE GRIT is going to be incredible.

Source: Variety