Variety are reporting that the Coen Brothers‘ adaptation of True Grit is set to be their next movie. Why The Yiddish Policemen’s Union won’t be next out of the traps, as we had previously believed it would be. I suspect it’s simply that the script isn’t in shape yet. For all we know, Joel and Ethan might have hit one of their legendary skid-patches of writers block with that one.
The True Grit remake first bobbed up, though wasn’t widely reported, a year or so ago – The Daily Mail had the scoop then, I think, but The Daily Mail being what they are, it was easy to dismiss the whole report. They quoted Joel Coen on the casting of Mattie Ross, the 14 year old lead.
