I'm not usually excited about anyone remaking one of my all-time favorite films but this one's shaping up differently, according to Variety.com.

Oscar winning directors and screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men) already had me excited about their plans to remake 1969's True Grit with Jeffrey Lebowski himself (or the Dude, Duder or Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing) Jeff Bridges in the role that won John Wayne a sentimental Oscar for best actor.

Bridges will play the cantankerous one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who's enlisted by young Mattie Ross to find her father's murderer. Mattie's role hasn't been cast yet but any Fanning will do. However, a couple more key roles appear to be going to stars that could make True Grit one of 2010's biggest holiday hits.

Matt Damon is negotiating to play LaBoeuf, a cocky Texas Ranger also on the killer's trail for a Lone Star State crime. Glen Campbell acquitted himself well in the original role, and sang the Oscar nominated theme song to (cowboy) boot. The varmint being chased, Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey in the original), is likely to be played by Josh Brolin, who shot to stardom as the good guy in No Country for Old Men.

No word yet on who'll play Chaney's accomplices, roles handled by Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper in the first film.

Check out the Duke's classic shootout with the gang in the clip posted above. Rent the movie to see how it turns out.