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Newspaper: Coen Brothers Plan Remake of Charles Portis' 'True Grit'
By Arkansas Business Staff - 3/4/2008 10:49:01 AM
London's Daily Mail newspaper has reported that Oscar-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen are planning a remake of Arkansas author Charles Portis' 1968 novel, "True Grit."
The newspaper said the brothers, who just won Oscars for "No Country for Old Men," intend to go back to Portis' novel to tell the story of 14-year-old girl who sets off from her family's 480-acre Arkansas farm to avenge her father's murder.
"The book recounts the girl's story," Joel Coen told the newspaper. "In the John Wayne film, she was played older. We want her to be her real age - it's her story!"
John Wayne won an Oscar for playing the book's Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 film adaptation, which was directed by Henry Hathaway and featured Arkansas native and country music star Glen Campbell as the character La Boeuf. A young Robert Duvall also had a role.
"The Coens will join forces again with 'No Country For Old Men''s Oscar winning producer Scott Rudin on 'True Grit,' but it's not going to happen for at least two or three years," the newspaper said.
"The Coens have 'Burn After Reading' with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Academy-Award-winning Tilda Swinton coming out this autumn, and they go into production later in the year on another Rudin production, 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union,' based on Michael Chabon's book."
