Joel and Ethan Coen’s next project will bring True Grit back to the big screen, but their adaptation will stay truer to the Charles Portis book than to the 1969 movie that won John Wayne an Oscar, Variety reports. That means the remake will focus more on the 14-year-old girl who, in Portis’ novel, tracks her father’s killer in Indian territory along with a U.S. marshal (whom Wayne played in the original) and a Texas ranger. They’ll tackle True Grit ahead of another adaptation on their docket, Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.
Mar 23
2009
12:23 PM ET
Coen Brothers will adapt 'True Grit'
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Are you kidding me??!! True Grit is a classic–John Wayne at his finest! How do you try to ‘re-make’ that? Oh, by putting the emphasis on a 14 year-old girl. Great, another flippin’ tween movie. I hope the Coen brothers will come to their senses and shelve this project. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is a new story that deserves screen treatment–not another bloody remake!!
Duke~~ Thank you for that image: a Western tween movie by the Coen Brothers?? I’m doing the casting in my head now… I’m sure they can fit Steve Buscemi in there somewhere.
As sacreligious as Steve Martin remaking The Pink Panther or Tim Robbins remaking Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. You simply cannot remake an iconic film like this and hope to improve on it, because peoples’ hearts were already captured by the original. Lightening rarely stikes twice. Perhaps if they gave it a different title….
Sorry…it was Tim Burton who had the gall to try to remake Charlie and The Chocolate Factory…
The Coens are jumping on the remake bandwagon now? Gggrrr…..
Better them than Michael Bay, I suppose.
Tommy Lee Jones as Rooster Cogburn anyone?
Love the Coen Bros. – but what a waste of time…leave well enough alone
Cheers to the Coen brothers for bringing attention to the underrated Charles Portis! Pairing the Coens up with a Portis novel actually makes a lot of sense, particularly in the ‘dry humor’ department. Off the top of my head, The Dog Of The South would seem an ideal fit if they were to adapt another of Portis’s works, but I’d also love to see an attempt at Masters Of Atlantis.
i think it’s more of another adaptation, than a remake. kind of like “i am legend” and “the omega man”.
As long as Miley Cyrus doesn’t get the lead….
Good luck remaking a John Wayne western without John Wayne, have fun with that!
Never was a big fan of True Grit even though I loved John Wayne. But come on now. Nobody writes good books anymore? Everything has to be a remake? It is as if everyone in Hollywood is 40 to 50 years old and instead of watching their old favorite movies and tv shows on dvd they just remake them.
uh… HELLO… “True Grit” is based on a BOOK. Just because it happened to be adapted into a movie doesn’t mean it’s officially closed off.
Also, I read the book (a while ago) and it was NARRATED by the girl. and to the OP, when have the Coen brothers EVER made a tween movie? They are true auteurs, and their films are almost always thought-provoking.