When Charles Portis published True Grit in 1968, the novel became a critically ... much less recognize that in many ways the original is better? How many fans of Die Hard know it's based on ...

Wayne was outbid by another producer, who turned to the actor once it was time to start casting True Grit. Wayne didn’t just love the original book — he was also a huge fan of the dialogue ...

With True Grit, they find a new way to shock: by being more faithful to the book than the original film version of True Grit ever was; by exalting the Western genre unapologetically; by not being ...

Today, there are only two actors still alive from the main cast of the original "True Grit." Here's what they're up to today. Read more: The 20 Best Western Movie Actors Ranked It shouldn't be too ...

With the Coen Brothers’ “True Grit” poised to become the most popular ... than the attempts to follow up Henry Hathaway’s original 1969 film with John Wayne — closely based, like the ...

True Grit is less a remake and more another adaptation of the same novel as the original True Grit film. That first movie was quite successful, but you could argue the 2010 version surpassed it.

As the True Grit remake prepares to hit theatres, INSIDE EDITION tracks down actress Kim Darby who starred opposite John Wayne in the original film. True Grit has a lot to live up to. The original ...

The humor 1969: "True Grit" is a great novel because it balances death and revenge with charming characters and lighthearted comedy. Both movies understand that. In the original, the jokes are ...

Rather than a remake of the 1969 film that won John Wayne the only Oscar of his career, True Grit is a return to the original novel, by Charles Portis. The brothers had seen the Wayne film when ...

True Grit has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture. But one category from which it's notably absent is Best Original Score. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...

“True Grit” has to be the great comic Western ... with him at The New York Herald-Tribune in the 1960s) as “the original laconic cutup,” but this time he appeared to be torn between ...