The Coen brothers redo 'True Grit' for their first western

Charles Portis' novel rather than the 1969 John Wayne film piqued their interest, the siblings say. Jeff Bridges, their Rooster Cogburn, agrees.It wasn't the celluloid ghost of John Wayne that inspired the Coen brothers to go off into the dusty ravines and bleak prairie land of New Mexico to make "True Grit," their 15th feature film and first western. No, this was a project with a storybook beginning.

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