Just last month it was announced that the Coen Brothers and Jeff "The Dude" Bridges would be reuniting to remake the John Wayne classic, True Grit. Bridges is signed on to take the lead role of US Marshall Rooster Cogburn, but little else was known at the time. Now comes some news that has me more amped than ever. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to join the cast of the western. Damon is up for the role of Cogburn's partner, who assists him in tracking the killer of a 14 year old girl's father. Brolin will likely play the killer.
True Grit is set to begin production in March with hopes of a release late 2010.
Good news? Nah. Great news. If No Country for Old Men showed us anything it's that the Coens can handle this type of material, in my opinion far better than they can handle stuff like Burn After Reading or A Serious Man. I'm not knocking those films, but I have a preference when it comes to the Coens, and I prefer their grittier stuff to their comedy.
Variety has more on the story here.
