It's hard to believe that Jeff Bridges and The Coen Brothers haven't worked together more. As it stands, the last time was 1998's classic, The Big Lebowski in which Bridges took on the role of white Russian drinking slacker, "The Dude". Variety is reporting that the trio will be teaming up once again in a remake of the John Wayne western, True Grit. Wayne won an Oscar for his role as Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 original, about an aging U.S. Marshall who attempts to help a little girl track her father's killer. The Coens will rely more on the book version of the story rather than the film, telling the story from the girl's perspective rather than Cogburn's. [Edit: I had previously written that Mattie Ross was cast as the girl, but Mattie Ross is actually the character's name. Duh.]
Obviously anything involving the Coens is worth marking down on your calandar. After No Country for Old Men, which to me always felt like their take on the classic Western, I expect True Grit will be nothing short of amazing.
