Variety reports that the Coen brothers are set to remake True Grit, the classic Western film that won John Wayne an Oscar.
Based on a Charles Portis novel, True Grit 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.
While the original film was a showcase for Wayne and co-starred Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper, the Coens’ version will stick to Portis’ novel closer and tell the tale from the girl’s point-of-view.
Producer Scott Rudin, their partner on the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, will once again produce alongside the Coens.
The trio is also working on an adaptation of “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”, a novel written by Michael Chabon.
The Coens just recently finished A Serious Man for Focus Features and Working Title.
By Tessa Petrocco (Source: Variety)
I just got Dennis Hopper as a voice on my GPS. I got it from a site called Navtones, they do real celebrity voices for PND’s and Hopper is one of them.
It reminded me how good Hopper is and I hope he gets a role in this remake, at least a cameo role!
If they really do remake “True Grit” (which I think is a fantastic idea), why don’t they film it in the beautiful country (the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma), where the story is set!? The original version is so ridiculous, with John Wayne repeatedly referring to Fort Smith and MacAlister and other cities, places, and rivers in that region–all while we are viewing a backdrop of aspen groves and jagged snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies! It was absurd, and made the whole story unbelievable…