Accompanying the earlier USA Today articles were five new photos from True Grit. Not as high res as these ones but still pretty good.

Feast your eyes (click them for larger versions)…

USA Today is carrying two articles about True Grit. They’re only short interviews with 13 year-old, star in the making, Hailee Steinfeld, and Jeff Bridges but they contain some interesting comments.

Steinfeld:

“I actually started what I called the Bad Boy Jar. If they were to curse, they had to pay, because they did that pretty often. The f-word was $5, and every other word was $1,” she says cheerfully. “They would say the f-word, and then realize they’d said it, and then they would say the s-word. So I’d be like, ‘OK, that’s $6!’ The guys all looked at me and said, ‘OK, this is not fair. We have to designate you a word now.’ So I was not allowed to say ‘like’ or else it was 50 cents.

“It is a heavy movie, and you get on set and it’s, like, the mood is still (intense), from whatever we just did. But like at lunchtime and after lunch, it was a really, like, relaxed set.

“My goal when I was filming was she would never be happy. She’s trying to be as tough as she can be. A father would be the one to help her out of it, but she doesn’t have one. The entire time, she’s testing to see if he [Bridges' Rooster Cogburn] can be like a father,”

Bridges;

“Talking about ‘innocent girl’and so forth, I’d say we both have complex characters. The girl might seem innocent, but she’s quite intellectual and quite savvy about a lot of things,” Bridges says. “On the other hand, Rooster’s innocence and naïveté are brought to light, even through his grizzledness.

“The basic premise is this young girl is looking for somebody to go after the killer of her father. She asks, ‘Who is the best bounty hunter?’ And a bunch of guys are good, but Rooster is the badass merciless one. You don’t want to mess with him.”

You can see the articles here and here.

Thanks to Jack for emailing it in.

Nothing too get too excited about, but Paramount Pictures have [slightly] updated the official True Grit website. It has a fullscreen, beautiful image based on the ace poster and Johnny Cash’s awesome, God’s Gonna Cut You Down, looping in the background. If you click anywhere on the screen it takes you to the two trailers.

Out of interest, here are the lyrics to the song;

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down

Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head’s been wet with the midnight dew
I’ve been down on bended knee talkin’ to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel’s feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, “John go do My will!”

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin’ in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What’s down in the dark will be brought to the light

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut you down
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut you down
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut you down

Paramount Pictures have released four new still images from the Coen’s forthcoming adaptation of  True Grit.

Click on the images below for larger versions.

I love the bear man!

As you would expect it doesn’t contain a great deal at the moment, but the official website for True Grit is now live. Check it out, bookmark it and keep an eye on it here.

Just over a week since the release of the teaser trailer, the full theatrical trailer for the Coen brothers’ Christmas release, True Grit has hit the net! I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s two and half minutes of WIN!

Check it out HERE!!!

Really excited about this one now. Even from the trailer you can tell how closely it honours the source novel.

Thanks to Dave for the tip!

A number of people have sent me this True Grit teaser poster over the weekend. I’m not sure of its origin but I hope it’s an official one because it is genuinely bloody great…