Some will claim blasphemy but Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn gets my vote.
If you’re going to remake a classic, the Coen Brothers are the ones to do it.
Dude Coen Brothers, Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon as a Texas Ranger, Barry Pepper, and Josh Brolin as the drifter they are chasing . . .
I think it will be excellent!
The Big Lebowski channels The Duke… yeah, that might even drag me back to the multiplex.
I’m a fiend for Westerns so this will be much anticipated. . .
No substitute for JW. I’ll save my money.
Coen brothers have said they do not intend this as a remake of the movie True Grit but as their version of the book it is based on or something to that effect. I think it should be pretty good.
I see that Blood Meridian is being made into a movie, hope it is good. I am not familiar with the writer/director.
Good to know.
There’s no substitute for JW (or Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott for that matter) but I still look forward to this release. I grew up watching westerns and I absolutely LOVE a good western! How many of us learned from westerns that you better know how to shoot straight if you don’t want to live on your knees? 
I’m gonna take a controversial stance and say that True Grit was done right the first time. It still comes down to them being unable to come up with their own concept for a western.
Anybody remember that South Park episode about “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull?”
I think it will be tough to improve on the original with John Wayne. However I’m a sucker for a good western. I’ll probably put it on my “to see” list.
I’ll wait for the DVD to come out. I really hope they don’t screw this up, I like that movie. After watching Crazy Heart, I think Bridges could pull it off, if he plays it straight.
I just hope they find the right Judge Holden.
Saw the trailer for True Grit today before Jackass 3. The trailer was worth having to sit through Jackass.
THIS
Holly wood has run out of ideas, period.
Oh so true; and how sad it is to watch all these remakes and how they rape the originals. At least this isn’t a remake, just a different interpretation of the book. Still I’ll wait for it on DVD.
On the Crystal Skull note; it was pathetic to watch, not a true Indiana Jones movie at all; just a B-action flick with a big budget and a rediculous excuse for a plot.
Coen Brothers suck. They only made one single decent film and that was Miller’s Crossing. And even that was just your basic period gangster film.
Everything else was either boring as hell or a rehash of some previous work. The only thing all the films have in common beyond that is they all think they are brilliant films.
Thread drift here but growing up with Raiders, Temple of Doom, and Last Crusade the last Indy film was just the most disappointing film of all time in lieu of the hype. Lucas and Spielberg should have let Indiana and his father ride off into the sunset arguing about the dog’s name and be done with it. Rant finished now. As you were.
-Jax
I’m gonna have to dissagree with you there. I loved Fargo and No Country For Old Men. I’m a huge fan of folk and blue grass so I really enjoyed O Brother, Where Art Thou too.
This is a prime example of why some directors like Quentin Tarantino say that there comes a time in every directors career will they need to stop making films.
As for Hollywood running out of ideas, there some pretty good movies that have come out lately The American, The Town, Inception to name a few. I think the big budget studios are the ones that keep rehashing the same old shit. Example, A-Team it blew IMO.
Never saw the original and to be quite honest, I find a lot of old movies unbearable to watch, but the new one looks awesome. I dont see how you can cast The Dude and Matt Damon and have a bad movie.