The Coen brothers plan to remake True Grit, the iconic Western film that won John Wayne an Oscar in 1969.

The Paramount version will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the original flick was, as reported in Variety.

Portis’ novel tells the story of a 14-year-old girl who, with the help of an aging US marshal and another lawman, finds her father’s killer while in dangerous Indian territory.

Unlike the 1969 original, the remake of True Grit will tell the story from the girl’s point of view.

True Grit will be the first period film for the Coen brothers, in which they will reunite with Scott Rudin, who they worked with on the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men.

No production date has been set so far.

The original True Grit lead to two sequels: Rooster Cogburn in 1975 where Wayne continued his role as the US marshal, and A Further Adventure, the TV-friendly follow up of 1978.

Joel and Ethan Coen have just completed their latest work, the black comedy A Serious Man, and are planning to schedule the making of True Grit in before their next planned novel adaptation: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, a novel by Michael Chabon.