During the Toronto International Film Festival Collider.com got some time with Joel and Ethan Coen at a roundtable interview. They asked pointed questions about True Grit and the recent speculation about re-teaming with Jeff Bridges. Here are the resulting answers;
Collider: What was it about “True Grit” that made you want to do it as your next project?
Ethan Coen: Hopefully we’ll do it, but it’s not definite. Well it’s just a really good book. That’s the long and short of it…it’s just a great book. While there are a lot of great books, it’s a great book that seems like there is room to have a good movie made from it…which maybe hasn’t happened yet. (lots of laughter in the room)
Collider: And you guys are working with Jeff Bridges again.
Joel Coen: Hopefully. We’ll see. We’ve been talking to him. We don’t know. Nothing is definite. We don’t have a go ahead on this movie. We don’t have a cast – or the rest of it. Hopefully it’ll happen. It’s just in the talking stages right now.
So, True Grit is not yet confirmed as the Coen brothers’ next movie but they have an interesting slant on it so hopefully it will happen. It would be a shame for this to go the same way as their aborted adaptation of James Dickey’s To The White Sea.
