Coen Brothers to Adapt 'True Grit'

Variety:

As their next film, Joel and Ethan Coen will put their spin on “True Grit,” the iconic Western that won John Wayne an Oscar.

Not a traditional remake, the Paramount film will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the 1969 pic, also distributed by Par.

Portis’ novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father’s killer in hostile Indian territory.

But while the original film was a showcase for Wayne, the Coens’ version will tell the tale from the girl’s p.o.v.

Grit will come before the Coen’s adaptation of Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” in the production pipeline, but after the already completed A Serious Man.