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IMDB has four fantastic looking character posters from True Grit. They’re basically the same images from the earlier poster but not combined. Things are really ramping up now and I’m getting very, very excited…
Jeff Bridges is Rooster Cogburn…
Hailee Steinfeld is Mattie Ross…
Matt Damon is LeBoeuf…
Josh Brolin is Tom Chaney…
Thanks to Navid for pointing these out.
Empire snagged the international poster for True Grit. I prefer the one with simple type myself but this one does show just how grizzled Jeff Bridge’s Rooster Cogburn is!
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!
Last week it was nothing more than rumour but now Variety have confirmed that 13 year-old newcomer, Hailee Steinfeld has been plucked from the 15,000 girls who auditioned, and has been cast in the coveted role of Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers’ forthcoming True Grit. The movie starts shooting next month and she’ll star alongside Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.
Well done to her!
I refuse to call it a remake of the 1969 John Wayne movie. Everyone keeps referring to it a “remake” and then, in the next sentence, they say how it’s going to be closer to the source novel. So, to my mind, that makes it an adaptation, does it not?
Anyway, micro-rant over, Joel and Ethan Coen have been discussing their adaptation of True Grit, the Charles Portis novel, over on FirstShowing.net. Firstly Joel confirmed that the casting news from yesterday was correct. He curtly commented;
“Yes. Jeff, Matt and Josh, that’s true — something that you read in the trades that actually turns out to be true!”
With regard to the plot and the differences between the novel and the John Wayne movie version, Ethan had this to say;
“It’s partly a question of point-of-view. The book is entirely in the voice of the 14-year-old girl. That sort of tips the feeling of it over a certain way. I think [the book is] much funnier than the movie was so I think, unfortunately, they lost a lot of humour in both the situations and in her voice. It also ends differently than the movie did. You see the main character — the little girl — 25 years later when she’s an adult.”
“Another way in which it’s a little bit different from the movie — and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made — is that it’s a lot tougher and more violentthan the movie reflects. Which is part of what’s interesting about it.”
While Joel added;
“I don’t actually remember the movie too well, but I do remember it as being much more of a standard western, and the book is just an oddity. It’s a very odd book.”
So, we can look forward to an unusual, odd Western that will remain funny even though it’s about a 14 year-old girl whose father is killed! Only the Coens could pull that off! After their last “western” novel adaptation, No Country For Old Men, I am really, really looking forward to this and I haven’t even had the pleasure of seeing A Serious Man yet! They’re so prolific of late.
According to FirstShowing.net both Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are set to join Jeff Bridges in the cast of the Coen’s forthcoming adaptation of the Charles Portis novel, True Grit.
No reader of YKFK will need reminding of Brolin’s cracking performance in No Country For Old Men but Damon would be working with the Coen brothers for the first time, he joins George Clooney and Brad Pitt from the Ocean’s gang in having worked with them. Neither will play the 14 year-old girl who is the focus of both the novel and the movie, Damon is set to play LaBouef, a lawman alongside Bridges’ “Rooster” Cogburn while Brolin, surprisingly I thought, is due to play the murderer.
EDIT: According to the original Variety article the movie is due to go into production in March with a release date somewhere late in2010 with Paramount Pictures. The Coens reteam with producer Scott Rudin who worked with them on No Country For Old Men but interestingly, Steven Spielberg is also producing…
To celebrate the Cannes Film Festival 33 different directors contributed to a collection of short films about the “feeling of cinema”, collectively entitled, Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s’éteint et que le film commence. Thanks to the wonders of the internet and YouTube we can now watch the Coen brothers’ segment, World Cinema. It stars Josh Brolin, Grant Heslov and Brooke Smith, lasts for about three minutes during which, not very much happens. Enjoy.
Thanks to Joel, no not that Joel, for emailing this in.
Burn After Reading has been nominated in the category of Best Comedy of the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critic’s Choice Awards. It is up against Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Tropic Thunder, Role Models and Vicky Christina Barcelona.
Also Brad Pitt is up for Best Actor. Alas, not for BAR but David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. No Country For Old Men star Josh Brolin is also nominated for his role in Gus Van Sant’s Milk.
Thanks to the ever dependable Bunnie for letting me know!
The brothers Coen, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin appeared on the Charlie Rose show to discuss No Country For Old Men and that king among web-surfers, finishdish, has come through for us again with a link to the pertinent clip. Thanks finishdish! Also, do a wee search for “coen” and you’ll find yet more interviews with our favourite movie making bros about O Brother, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Intolerable Cruelty!
YAY! Some clips of No Country For Old Men!!! Packaged along with some brief interview clips with Joel and Ethan. AWESOME!
The first clip shows Tommy Lee Jones’ Sheriff Bell surveying the scene of a drug deal gone bad. The second, the menacing Chigurh (Javier Bardem) on the phone to Moss (Josh Brolin). The third section shows Moss at home with his girlfriend Carla Jean (Scottish actress Kelly MacDonald) and the final one has Chirurh at his most menacing. I think “what’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss” will become much quoted. Check them out using the links on the right.
Behind the Coens during their bits is the poster for the movie too, I can’t wait for a hi-res version of that to show up!
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