Coen Brothers have the TRUE GRIT of John Wayne!

Coen Brothers, who have directed many Western-conscious genre movies over the years (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Blood Simple) have in the last few years spoken regularly times about them wishing to make an out and out, old school period Western... and now it looks like they may have finally found the perfect property for them to do just that. Variety report that they will team with Paramount to bring True Grit to the big screen, based on the original Charles Portis novel that has already been adapted into one of John Wayne's latter day classics in 1969 and was the source material which won him his only Oscar. The Coens wish to adapt the book and not do an out and out remake, and have wrote their own screenplay.

Portis' novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian territory. But while the original film was a showcase for Wayne, the Coens' version will tell the tale from the girl's p.o.v. Pic will be their first period Oater.

The original film starred Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, Kim Darby and Dennis Hopper in supporting roles and it's a movie that belongs to the same mindset as that of Gran Torino which has just become Clint Eastwood's most popular film of his long career.

So which aging star will the Coens use... is Tommy Lee Jones to obvious?

True Grit is firmly established as The Coens next picture to develop with No Country producer Scott Rudin, replacing the trio's adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzier Prize winning novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which will now have to wait.

Coens next movie A Serious Man, opens October 2nd.