True Grit (2010) Review Thread (Spoilers)

[broganreynik]

A month and a half ago, moviegoers’ eyes alit at the news that the Coens wanted to re-adapt Charles Portis’s classic Western novel True Grit — with Jeff Bridges in the Rooster Cogburn role that won John Wayne an Oscar in 1969. Now it looks like they’re getting especially serious, with Matt Damon and Josh Brolin’s names arising as front-runners for the supporting roles of a lawman and a killer (respectively). All that’s left is to pin down a young girl to play the daughter of the slain man whom Cogburn is seeking vengeance for; if anything, this sounds like the role Kiernan Shipka — a/k/a patricidal Sally Draper — was born to play.

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I'm starting to get pretty excited for this. As long as they don't try to cast Ellen Page in the role of Mattie Ross. Damon, Brolin and Bridges would be a pretty sweet cast for a Western if you ask me.