By MICHAEL SMITH Movie Critic on Mar 23, 2009, at 3:10 PM Updated on 3/23 at 3:10 PM
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The Coen Brothers are making a western, and not just any western, but one set partly in Indian territory and one of the cinema’s more revered oaters.
“True Grit,” the 1969 western for which John Wayne won his Academy Award as best actor playing drunken, crotchedy U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, is the film that the “No Country for Old Men” pair is at work on adapting. But you can apparently forget that movie version.
Reports are that the Coens intend to retain the focus of the novel by Arkansas native Charles Portis, whose story centered on a 14-year-old girl and was told from her point of view, as she accompanied lawmen in the search for an outlaw who killed her pa.
That would be in contrast to the 1969 version that obviously had Wayne front-and-center, leading the girl (Kim Darby’s character in the first film) and a Texas Ranger (another Arkansas native, Glen Campbell, had this role) in this dangerous quest.
Is it possible the Coen Brothers would do some filming in our neck of the woods, at least in Arkansas if not in our state? It is very possible.
After starting with “Blood Simple” 25 years ago (set in Texas and shot in Texas), the duo has done location shoots like “Raising Arizona” in Arizona, “Fargo” in Minnesota and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” in Mississippi.
Stay tuned.
For a look at the original "True Grit," consider this:
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