It’s Confirmed: Coen Brothers Remaking True Grit

Jacksonville – Variety has confirmed the long awaited news that the Coen Brothers are going to in fact remake the 1969 western “True Grit” as their next film after completing “A Serious Man”.

Rather than making a straight remake of “True Grit”, Ethan and Joel Cohen will be making it more of an adaptation of the book written by Charles Portis.

The original film led to an Oscar win for John Wayne who played the lead role of a drunken US Marshall, Rueben J. ‘Rooster’ Cogburn.

Rooster, along with a Texas Ranger help a woman track down her father’s murdered in hostile Indian Territory.

Scott Rudin, who won an Oscar with the Coen Brothers for “No Country for Old Men”, will be teaming up again with the brothers to produce this film.

No casting has been done yet for the film.