Yeehaw! Matt Damon, Josh Brolin Get Gritty
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Matt Damon's family emergency appears to have found a happy resolution—and not a moment too soon. After the briefest of Damon dry spells, he's back to fulfilling all of our paparazzi-catching, movie-acquiring needs.
Wasting no time getting back in the saddle, the Oscar winner is in talks with Josh Brolin—who knows from both Academy Award nominations and Westerns himself—to star in a reimagining of the iconic 1969 cowboy flick True Grit (which, incidentally, earned John Wayne his only Oscar).
According to Variety, the duo would star alongside Jeff Bridges in the Joel and Ethan Coen flick. Should discussions turn to done deals, it would mark a reunion for everyone but Damon; the brothers Coen previously toiled with Bridges The Dude on The Big Lebowski and clocked hours with Brolin on the Academy lovefest No Country for Old Men.
The remake would follow Damon and Bridges joining forces with a teenage girl to track down her father's killer; Brolin would play the bad guy. The testosterone-heavy flick is due out in late 2010.
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Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright Cleared in Bar Brawl
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Looks like there'll be no need for a presidential pardon for this W. crew.
Prosecutors in Shreveport, La., have reached a deal with attorneys for Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, agreeing to drop all charges stemming from their highly publicized July bar brawl.
Cindy Kemp, spokeswoman for the Shreveport City Court, tells E! News that as long as the actors and five others accept "district attorney's probation" and stay out of further trouble, all misdemeanor counts against the group will be dismissed at their next court date, scheduled for March 11.
The W. gang was out celebrating the wrap of the Oliver Stone biopic at the Stray Cats bar when cops were called to break up a disturbance in the early hours of July 12, 2008. Brolin, the celluloid commander in chief, tried to talk cops out of arresting a drunk crew member, but he and Wright, who plays Colin Powell in the movie, wound up getting pepper sprayed and arrested for interfering with an officer.
Josh Brolin: George W. Bush Moves Like a Rat
You'd think the only thing Josh Brolin would have had to study to play George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's W earlier this year would be video and audio of the president.
Not so.
Brolin also took a good look at rodents for inspiration to play George W. in his younger years.
"I would watch rats in mazes looking for cheese because that how I saw him looking for women," Brolin tells James Lipton on Inside the Actor's Studio, airing Jan. 5. "He always leaded with his head."
Also revealed in the interview, Brolin tells how he snagged the role of another real-life politician, murderous San Francisco city supervisor Dan White, opposite Sean Penn in Milk.
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