Josh Brolin And Matt Damon Go TRUE For The Coen Brothers

The Coen Brothers had a decent run working with non-famous star on the original A Serious Man. I don’t think it’s fair that the hilarious under-appreciated yet profound comedy only earned $3.2 Million, it’s an important movie that I think every grown up needs to see. But as we know, the great brothers have gone back to adaptation with the new take on TRUE GRIT. They previously got their Big Lebowski star, the dude a.k.a Jeff Bridges to play the character Marshall Rooster Cogburn, played by the iconic John Wayne in 1969. Now Variety says Josh Brolin and Matt Damon have joined the cast…

Those who’ve seen the old movie would know that it’s about a tough SOB Marshall who helped a 14 year old young girl, Mattie Ross, travel into hostile territories to avenge her father’s death. The Coens’ script however will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book
Damon will play the lawman who teams up with Cogburn. Glenn Campbell played the lawman in the original movie.
Brolin is in talks to play the killer. Jeff Corey played the killer in the original.
This marks the reunion of Brolin and The Coens since No Country For Old Men.
They still haven’t cast an actress to play the 14 year old girl but there’s a significant addition to the team, along with Scott Rudin, the great Steven Spielberg is also a producer of this project.

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.”