True Grit (novel) John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn, along with Robert Duvall and Strother Martin. Six years later, in 1975, Wayne reprised his Academy Award-winning role as the tough hard drinking one-eyed lawman in the sequel film "Rooster Cogburn" with co-star Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, Strother Martin and John McIntire. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed another film adaption of the same name, which starred Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, Matt Damon as LaBoeuf and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn. In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of the second
True Grit (1969 film) aforementioned scene in which Cogburn discusses his wife and child. Veteran John Wayne stunt-double Tom Gosnell does the stunt in the meadow, where "Bo" goes down, on his longtime horse Twinkle Toes. In the last scene, Mattie gives Rooster her father's gun. She comments that he's gotten a tall horse, as she expected he would. He notes that his new horse can jump a four-rail fence. Then she admonishes him, "You're too old and fat to be jumping horses." Rooster responds with a smile, saying, "Well, come see a fat old man sometime," and jumps his new horse over a