The Dude in True Grit Talks
In what is shaping up as a potential ìBig Lebowskiî reunion, Jeff Bridges is in discussions with Paramount to star for Joel and Ethan Coen in ìTrue Grit,î playing the role that won John Wayne an Oscar in the 1969 film.
Bridges, who last worked with the Coens when he turned in a heralded performance as Jeffrey ìThe Dudeî Lebowski, is in talks to play the lead role in the iconic Western that the Coens are mounting as their next project.
The picture, which also reunited the Coens with their ìNo Country for Old Menî producing partner Scott Rudin, has been redrafted by the Coens to be more faithful to the Charles Portis novel that the original film was based on.
In it, a 14 year old girl tags along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman to track the outlaw who killed her father. The trail leads them into hostile Indian territory. The original told the story from Cogburnís vantage point, but the new version will work from the viewpoint of the young girl. Kim Darby played the young girl in the original, and Glen Campbell played the other lawman.
The Coens premiere ìA Serious Manî at the Toronto Film Festival. Bridges most recently starred in ìThe Men Who Stare At Goatsî and reprised in ìTron Legacy.î
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