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 (novel) film version of "True Grit". The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross, churchgoing elderly spinster distinguished by intelligence, independence, and strength of mind. She recounts the story of her adventures many years earlier, at 14, when she undertook a quest to avenge her father's death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney. She is joined on her quest by Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (pronounced "La-beef"). As Mattie's tale begins, Chaney is employed on the Ross's family farm in West-Central Arkansas, near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County. Chaney is not