Posted on 03/24/2009 8:48:48 AM PDT by Reaganesque
As their next film, Joel and Ethan Coen will put their spin on "True Grit," the iconic Western that won an Oscar.
Not a traditional remake, the Paramount film will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the 1969 pic, also distributed by Par.
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.
But while the original film was a showcase for Wayne, the Coens' version will tell the tale from the girl's p.o.v.
Pic will be their first period Oater.
Project reteams the brothers with Scott Rudin, their partner on the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men." The Coens wrote the screenplay.
The original starred as the teen, Wayne and as the lawmen, Jeff Corey as the killer and featured and Dennis Hopper as fellow outlaws.
"True Grit" originated at DreamWorks when that company was Par-based, but it was one of the projects that Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg left behind since the original is part of the Paramount film library. Former DreamWorks prexy , now a Par exec, is steering the project for the studio.
The Western steps in front of another novel adaptation the Coens have with Rudin: "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," based on the Michael Chabon novel and set up at Columbia.
The Coens just completed "A Serious Man," which they scripted, for Focus Features and Working Title.
They are repped by UTA.
Better watch your step, pilgrim.
After seeing Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in "Unforgiven", I'd love to see him in the Cogburn role as well.
One of the Jessie James movies made in 60’s or 70’s was like that. Never noticed the mountains of northern Missouri before it.
“Missouri Breaks” with Brando and Nicholson is one of the strangest westerns I’ve ever seen.....
I’d like to see Dennis Hopper in this..I find him entertaining in just about everything I’ve seen him in..because I think he’s just plain nuts.
I hate to see anybody walk on the bone of the Duke...
Better watch your step, pilgrim.
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That’s the most brilliantly hilarious response I’ve ever read.....perfect comic timing and delivery
translation: pc manure?
Sometimes I like re-makes, sometimes I don't. I enjoyed the re-makes of Sabrina, and The Parent Trap,
Even though it was supposed to have followed the book more closely, I didn't like the re-make of Dune, which aired on TV as a mini-series. I liked the art-deco look of the 80's movie, with Jurgen Prochnow as Duke Leto Atreides.
“The John Wayne “True Grit” was made over 35 years ago and gets only limited play on TV. Most of today’s movie-going audience has never seen it, and that will allow the Coen Brothers to make the movie the way they want it.”
Guess who’s the third most popular movie star in America?
Heres the 2009 rundown
Denzel Washington
Clint Eastwood
John Wayne
Will Smith
Harrison Ford
Julia Roberts
Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Angelina Jolie
Morgan Freeman
Oh please, not Nicholas Cage! He has been miscast in every movie he's made except for Raising Arizona.
WHA? Oh Brother, is one of our FAVORITE movies! Not a wasted line of dialogue in it! The music is great, too.
"Oh, son, you sold your everlasting soul?"
"Well, I wasn't usin it."
Now THAT'S a blast from the past! I went to see that at the drive-in with my parents, when I was a teenager, over 40 years ago!
Actually, the movie is A Family Thing, and it's a WONDERFUL film. It's worth the price of rental to see the two old coots, Duvall and Jones in a fight! A truly sweet movie.
I'm guessing most of the folks who saw it when it was released are not even alive anymore. ;o) Nothing wrong with a new version for the grandchildren's generation.
WOW “Thanks” talk about making me feel old—It was released in 1969; I bet there are a lot of us still alive that saw it when it was released.
To each his own, as they say. I encouraged a friend of mine to see the movie, and she hated it, though she said her husband and sons loved it. ;o)
Heh, I suspect more folks our parents’ age saw it in first run, though some teenaged girls might have gone to see it on the strength of Kim Darby’s having been in it.
Oh brother is like groundhog day, you have to watch it several times to appreciate it. There is much more there than you can take in in the first or second viewings.
Oh brother is in my top ten all time favorite movies but the first time I saw it, I walked out of the theater wondering what the heck I just saw.
No thanks, a third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding her back down.
There is something special about Duval. He is one of a kind.
I’m surprised Mel Gibson isn’t on that list?
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