Coen brothers to adapt 'True Grit'

Variety Magazine ^ | 03/22/09 | MICHAEL FLEMING

[Puppage]

FIll your hands.....

Dag nabit!

Beaten to the punch again.

[Puppage]

Fargo is the best, IMHO.

Oh, hhhaaa

[the long march]

The War Wagon is comin’... women and children better stay behind ;)

[Liberty Valance]

bfl

[azcap]

Duvall, Hackman, Eastwood? Great actors but why not get John Wayne... Oh wait he’s dead. You guys do realize that Duvall is 78, Eastwood 78 and Hackman 77 ?
I like Selleck and Jones and you might be able to get those guys on a horse for a month of shooting at the spry age of 62.

[dead]

Other than, maybe, “The Hudsucker Proxy”, the Coen brothers don’t make mistakes.

[TADSLOS]

Robert Duvall. Definitely.

[wally-balls]

Craig T. Nelson

[Billthedrill]

Johnny Depp. Whatever else I guarantee he wouldn't try to impersonate The Duke. It could turn out to be the strangest Western ever made.

Oh, how my little sister cried when they gunned Glen Campbell down... :-)

[19th LA Inf]

I have been all through eastern Oklahoma, never saw hills that big.

A friend of mine, who went to U of Arkansas with Portis, said that Glenn Campbell took the time to show the producers all around the Ft. Smith area looking for shooting sites, but they decided to do Colorado instead.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Heck, John Goodman might not be a bad choice. But I keep coming back to..."but, its John Wayne!!!" We'll see.

Goodman would be an interesting choice if he's still able to sit a horse - last I saw of him he looked much too big to sit safely on any horse short of a Clydesdale.

Although the original movie was supposed to be oriented around the Kim Darby character, John Wayne's charisma and power dominated that film. When he isn't on-screen, you're waiting for him to come on-screen. Maybe the new film will allow audiences to concentrate more on the girl and her story.

[Rightly Biased]

I like Duval.

Something about him. The Apostle was an interesting movie and Duval did it great.

There is also a movie Next of Kin with him and James Earl Jones as brothers also classic Duval.

He has been around a long time if I recall correctly he was Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Duval couldn’t fill Wayne’s Boots but he could do a good job.

[Larry Lucido]

[anonsquared]

True Grit meets Raising Arizona?

[Constitution Day]

Now I really like the idea of McShane.

He was brilliant (if exceptionally profane) as Al Swearengen on “Deadwood”. That show had so much potential, I wish it had continued.

[dangerdoc]

Bruce Cambell should play the marshall.

[mad_as_he$$]

Rooster’s role = Michael Madsen, Jeff Fehey (the helo pilot from Lost), some complete unknown who has good presence.

[Califreak]

Then it would be True S*&T instead of True Grit.

Sorry.

I like Sam Elliot, Tommy Lee Jones, or Robert Duvall(which could be a nod to the original movie).

Tom Slick would be good too.

[Tammy8]

Sam Elliott would be a perfect choice. I also think they should change the name so the image of John Wayne wouldn’t be in the audience’s mind while watching the new movie.

[dangerdoc]

Bruce Cambell