True Grit (2010)

[MacGuffin]

Pepper joins cast of Coen Bro's 'True Grit'
Thep inks deal with Par to play 'Lucky' Ned Pepper
Source: Variety

Barry Pepper won't even have to use a fictional surname as he joins the cast of the Coen brothers' "True Grit."

Thesp has inked a deal with Paramount to play the role of "Lucky" Ned Pepper, the notorious outlaw played by Robert Duvall in Henry Hathaway's 1969 classic Western.

Pepper will star opposite Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Hailee Steinfeld.

Ethan and Joel Coen will lens from their adapted script. Scott Rudin is producing; Steven Spielberg is exec producer. The Coens also are producers.

Pepper will next been seen opposite Kevin Spacey in "Casino Jack," George Hickenlooper's pic about disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Pepper's previous credits include "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Green Mile."

[Stefen]

Barry Pepper is the fucking man. One of the most underrated actors of the last 10 yeas.

[Reinhold]

awesome. i saw them casting the lead girls at work... or at least i saw the actresses that came in and peeked lovingly at the coen bros whenever i got a chance. none of the girls seemed punchable.

joel coen did make my life, though, when he accidentally saw me sitting at an Avid.

[Pas]

No offense but since a couple months you remind me of the photocopier-tech-guy at the TV station where I work who's always talking about the various celebrities he sees in the hallway.

I mean, it's cool if you can provide any insight (sp?) of the casting because of your job or whatever, but that ''none of the lead girls looked punchable'' is not information.

Also, Joel Cohen ''accidently'' saw you and made your life/day? Jeez... America and celebrities... I'm glad to be canadian.

[john]

Your point seems valid, except I didn't know being Canadian automatically exempts you from fawning over celebrity.... figured that was just self-restraint. I watched one of those Kevin Smith Q&As filmed in Canada and it was pretty much 90 minutes of audience members riding his dick.

[Reinhold]

No offense but since a couple months you remind me of the photocopier-tech-guy at the TV station where I work who's always talking about the various celebrities he sees in the hallway.

I mean, it's cool if you can provide any insight (sp?) of the casting because of your job or whatever, but that ''none of the lead girls looked punchable'' is not information.

Also, Joel Cohen ''accidently'' saw you and made your life/day? Jeez... America and celebrities... I'm glad to be canadian.

i can understand what you're saying... i don't mean to be annoying about it and please understand i don't say this stuff thinking that it makes me sound cool or something like that. if i had a real job i wouldn't care, just like everybody else here. i have no illusions about being some kind of insider or anything like that... i'm just amused regularly that my entry level Post PA job happens to be around awesome people and projects that i read about in the news/variety. also, i don't know if this makes it better or worse but i don't post about every little thing that happens with regard to somebody with a name to drop-- i try to just say stuff that i find interesting (please review the last six years of me posting here for evidence that my sense of what is interesting and/or funny to you guys is usually pretty far off base).

as far as true grit goes, i guess what i should have said is "i didn't see any young actresses i recognized, so i'm willing to bet that the lead is going to go to a nonprofessional. judging from what i saw in the lobby none of the young ladies really exuded any grit. they seemed like very normal little girls... whatever performance they get out of her should be one to watch"

i also saw other people, known actors who have been in other coen brothers movies, and i didn't think that it'd be surprising or relevant to say that they'll probably be in this one too.

and i was exaggerating about that making my life... but thanks for calling me out just the same.

[pete]

pas pas, he's happy, can't you just let the man be happy?

[modage]

Yeah I like living vicariously through Reinhold's little brushes with our Xixax Approved filmmakers.  Plus, we'd all flip our shit if he came within a few yards of PTA.

[Neil]

I mention the paul haggis story to most people i meet.  Don't let those cool canadians bring you down man.

[72teeth]

Yeah, and the headline when i met Spike Jonze said that i had met the moon, or landed on the moon, something along the lines of that...

anyway, i love already knowing what my Christmas movie is going to be this year... i had to wait til summer before i got excited for ben buttons. i call him ben buttons cause i know him.

[MacGuffin]

as far as true grit goes, i guess what i should have said is "i didn't see any young actresses i recognized, so i'm willing to bet that the lead is going to go to a nonprofessional. judging from what i saw in the lobby none of the young ladies really exuded any grit. they seemed like very normal little girls... whatever performance they get out of her should be one to watch"

Hailee Steinfeld to star in 'True Grit'
Coen brothers cast newcomer in Western drama
Source: Variety

Hailee Steinfeld has won the role of 14-year-old Mattie Ross in Paramount's redo of Western classic "True Grit," which Ethan and Joel Coen begin lensing next month in New Mexico.

She'll star alongside Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.

The Coen brothers, who penned the script, are producing "True Grit" with Scott Rudin. Pic is set to open Christmas Day.

In "True Grit," Mattie Ross teams with Rooster Cogburn (Bridges), a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. marshal, in the hunt to find her father's killer (Brolin), who has fled into Indian territory. A Texas Ranger (Damon) is searching for the same criminal, but for a different murder.

Steven Spielberg is exec producing

[polkablues]

She seems punchable.

[Pas]

No offense but since a couple months you remind me of the photocopier-tech-guy at the TV station where I work who's always talking about the various celebrities he sees in the hallway.

I mean, it's cool if you can provide any insight (sp?) of the casting because of your job or whatever, but that ''none of the lead girls looked punchable'' is not information.

Also, Joel Cohen ''accidently'' saw you and made your life/day? Jeez... America and celebrities... I'm glad to be canadian.

i can understand what you're saying... i don't mean to be annoying about it and please understand i don't say this stuff thinking that it makes me sound cool or something like that. if i had a real job i wouldn't care, just like everybody else here. i have no illusions about being some kind of insider or anything like that... i'm just amused regularly that my entry level Post PA job happens to be around awesome people and projects that i read about in the news/variety. also, i don't know if this makes it better or worse but i don't post about every little thing that happens with regard to somebody with a name to drop-- i try to just say stuff that i find interesting (please review the last six years of me posting here for evidence that my sense of what is interesting and/or funny to you guys is usually pretty far off base).

as far as true grit goes, i guess what i should have said is "i didn't see any young actresses i recognized, so i'm willing to bet that the lead is going to go to a nonprofessional. judging from what i saw in the lobby none of the young ladies really exuded any grit. they seemed like very normal little girls... whatever performance they get out of her should be one to watch"

i also saw other people, known actors who have been in other coen brothers movies, and i didn't think that it'd be surprising or relevant to say that they'll probably be in this one too.

and i was exaggerating about that making my life... but thanks for calling me out just the same.

Haha I didn't even want to come back to this thread because I knew I was a douche and didn't want to see your reply.

So yeah pete was right:

pas pas, he's happy, can't you just let the man be happy?

I'd be pretty excited to see the Cohens too  

Your point seems valid, except I didn't know being Canadian automatically exempts you from fawning over celebrity.... figured that was just self-restraint. I watched one of those Kevin Smith Q&As filmed in Canada and it was pretty much 90 minutes of audience members riding his dick.

Good point. What I meant by that you would understand by experiencing french canada, we have huge TV and movie stars that everybody knows here in the country. But they're not rich and they drive Hondas. We meet them at the supermarket and just smile and say hi.

Despite all that: True Grit will be awesome.

[The Perineum Falcon]

Carter Burwell Talks About The Score For Coen Brothers' 'True Grit'
via: The Playlist

Carter Burwell recently took to discussing his latest in a long line of collaborations with the Coen Brothers on their upcoming Western revenge film "True Grit," which stars Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Hailee Steinfeld.

Burwell has scored every film of the Coens beginning with "Blood Simple" and found that when it came to their latest work, things came together quicker than expected. The musician explained to The Film Experience that "we don't always see eye to eye [but for "True Grit"] we both had the same idea at the same time: Protestant hymns."

The concept was reportedly chosen as a thematic fit for the righteous journey of the film's lead, Mattie Ross (Steinfeld), though Burwell noted that he was still only in "research mode" and that everything he'd heard so far "all sound too sweet" for his liking.

One idea he had given thought to was "a sort of call and response feel to the theme, a solo instrument echoing back since Mattie is marching off alone, determined into dangerous territory to find her father's killer and recruiting others to join her." The musician did warn that early conceptualizing often differed significant to the final product but hopefully he's only taking precautions — we're already growing attached to the idea of absorbing hymns driving Ross' journey.

As for any connections to 1969's "True Grit," Burwell concluded that "we're trying to go back to the book as much as possible and ignore that film."

The film is currently shooting in Sante Fe from a script we felt has great potential to be another Coens classic and tonally is somewhere in between "No Country For Old Men" and "A Serious Man." It'll hit theaters Christmas Day.

[The Perineum Falcon]

First Look: Jeff Bridges & Hailee Steinfeld In The Coen Brothers' 'True Grit'
via: The Playlist Nation

Photos* from the set of the Coen Brothers' "True Grit" have unveiled the first looks at Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges as their respective characters, Mattie Ross and her accomplice Rooster Cogburn.

Filming is currently taking place in Granger, Texas after work in Sante Fe, New Mexico took place earlier in the year. The film is, of course, an adaptation of Charles Portis novel of the same name that also saw a famous 1969 adaptation starring John Wayne (in an Oscar-winning performance), Glen Campbell and Kim Darby. Musician Carter Burwell recently noted though that he and the Coens were avoiding that film adaptation and were drawing directly from the book for their input.

Reports from the Texas set have also interestingly noted a distinct lack of an eyepatch on Bridges throughout early days shooting.

"The first since was a scene of the hanging of 3 men," one witness wrote. "The second scene was with Jeff Bridges who had just arrived to the set, but I never saw him with the an eyepatch. No Matt [Damon], but I hear that he will be there tomorrow."

Could the Coens being differentiating their take with an eyepatch-less Rooster? At the rate of leaking set photos though, we'll probably find out sooner rather than later. For a more indepth look at the Granger set, one Facebook user has uploaded plenty of images for your viewing pleasure as well as the ones seen with Steinfeld.

"True Grit" hits theaters Christmas Day and also stars Matt Damon as LaBouef, Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney and Barry Pepper as "Lucky" Ned Pepper.

*pics + videos at link's links