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Coen brothers remake, reimagine ‘True Grit’
Joel and Ethan Coen are heading to the Old West with their next movie, an adaptation of the book True Grit by Charles Portis, reports Variety.com.
And before you ask, yes, that book has been turned into a movie before. The 1969 film starred John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper.
Variety says the Coen brothers’ version will not be a traditional remake of the 1969 film, which garnered an Oscar for Wayne — instead, it will try to be more faithful to the book, which tells of “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.” The new version will tell the story from the girl’s viewpoint.
I bet, if she’s not too busy, that Dakota Fanning will play the teen. And I can see Tommy Lee Jones as the U.S. marshal.
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