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Author Topic: Coen Brothers to do a remake of "True Grit" Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-26-2009 10:02 PM                        This seems like a really bad idea. How do you remake a John Wayne western without John Wayne, for cripesake? I'd rather see a reissue of the original with some other guy digitally inserted for Glen Campbell's part. The article is wrong about the novel - the story is told from the young girl's point of view, in fact it's written in the first person. Link Coens to remake ’True Grit’ LOS ANGELES - Virtuoso film directors Joel and Ethan Coen plan to remake the classic 1960s western "True Grit," which earned American screen icon John Wayne an Academy Award, Hollywood media reported Monday. Variety said the directors of "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski" were putting their own spin on the novel by Charles Portis telling the tale from the point of view of the stubborn 14-year-old girl at the heart of the story. The 1968 novel, as well as the film directed by Henry Hathaway the following year, focused on Wayne's character, the irascible and aging U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn whom the girl hires to track down her father's killers. The Coen brothers wrote the screenplay and the film reunites them with Scott Rudin, who produced their Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men." The original featured Wayne, Kim Darby as the young girl, Glen Campbell as one of the lawmen and Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper as outlaws. Variety did not mention any of the actors starring in the remake, which will be squeezed in before the Coens begin filming "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" based on the novel written by Michael Chabon.  |  IP: Logged Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 04-27-2009 12:16 AM                        The Ladykillers anyone?  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-27-2009 03:08 PM                     I would give the Coens the benefit of the doubt. They have, after all, made very, very few "bad" movies. Most of their work is fantastic.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-28-2009 06:38 AM                     Huh??? No Strother Martin!! sheesh!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-28-2009 09:39 AM                        Yeah, he was one of the highlights of True Grit and its sequel, Rooster Cogburn (he played a different character in each!).  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-05-2010 07:54 PM                 It has been 586 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2010 07:54 PM                        Well now that the trailer and onesheet on this are out, I admit to being more enthusiastic about it. Partly because people around here are quite excited about it. Based on the trailer I get the feeling that the Cogburn character as played by Jeff Bridges is going to be pretty much the anti-John Wayne! Anyway it looks to be a quality movie and should do quite well in the smaller towns -- we haven't had a good western in a long time. I don't know what to think about the onesheet though. It's not exactly exciting or whatever. But no Trajan, at least!  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 12-05-2010 08:18 PM                     This had better have Kim Darby in it otherwise I'll go and see Tron Legacy instead.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-05-2010 08:25 PM                     She's not exactly as cute as she once was...  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 12-05-2010 08:41 PM                     Aww, don't tell me that, John. I always thought she had eternal cuteness.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 12-05-2010 10:22 PM                        I've seen the trailer a couple of times now and all I know is I really really really really really want to see this.  |  IP: Logged Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 12-06-2010 08:33 AM                        My booker saw it at a screening in Minneapolis last week. He said it was pretty well done and should be well received out here in the "boonies"  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 12-07-2010 02:08 AM                     The trailer set to the Johnny Cash tune stood out for me. I never saw the Wayne True Grit. But I would rather see the remake with Bridges than the original wwith Wayne.  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-10-2010 06:13 AM                     Without the Elmer Bernstein score it'll miss something.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-10-2010 05:34 PM                     quote: Pravin Ratnam But I would rather see the remake with Bridges than the original wwith Wayne. But..I recommend that you see the original with Wayne before you make your final judgement with this remake, then call your choice. "The Duke" definitely deserved the award in the AMPAS of 1970 even though Dustin Hoffman that year was a very strong contender for the OSCAR with his role as Rico Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy". If Wayne wasn't there, Hoffman would have won the award hands down. -Monte  |  IP: Logged

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