Variety reports that the Coen brothers are set to remake True Grit, the classic Western film that won John Wayne an Oscar.

Based on a Charles Portis novel, True Grit 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.

While the original film was a showcase for Wayne and co-starred Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper, the Coens’ version will stick to Portis’ novel closer and tell the tale from the girl’s point-of-view.

Producer Scott Rudin, their partner on the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, will once again produce alongside the Coens.

The trio is also working on an adaptation of “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”, a novel written by Michael Chabon.

The Coens just recently finished A Serious Man for Focus Features and Working Title.

By Tessa Petrocco (Source: Variety)