As we know for quite some time now, the great Coen Bros. have been developing TRUE GRIT which will intend on being more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the 1969 movie that gave the Duke John Wayne an Oscar. Already joining the cast of this new take are Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Matt Damon but the story involves a young female character named Mattie. At the time I just quickly assumed Paramount would give the role to either Dakota Fanning or Abigail Breslin, let them fight it out ya know. But apparently the studio is looking for an unknown because TrueGritCasting.com has been launched as a website for young actresses to submit their audition tapes and find out information about attending an open casting call, so if you’re interested or if you know someone who’d be perfect, head on OVER THERE for details…
Jeff Bridges to play the character Marshall Rooster Cogburn. Damon will play the lawman who teams up with Cogburn. Brolin is in talks to play the killer.
Here’s the official synopsis of Charles Portis book, TRUE GRIT…
“It tells the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, who sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy-something to avenge the murder of her father. Since not even Mattie (who is no self-doubter) would ride into Indian Territory alone, she “convinces” one-eyed “Rooster” Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshall, to tag along with her. As Mattie outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten types in her path, as her performance under fire makes them eat their words, her indestructible vitality and harsh innocence by turns amuse, horrify, and touch the reader. What happens-to Mattie, to the gang of outlaws unfortunate enough to tangle with her-rings with the dramatic rightness of legend and the marvelous overtones, the continual surprises, of personality. “True Grit” is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself, who tells the story a half-century later in a voice that sounds strong and sure enough to outlast us all.”
