Matt Damon, Josh Brolin Considering Coens' True Grit Juggernaut

· A month and a half ago, moviegoers' eyes alit at the news that the Coens wanted to re-adapt Charles Portis's classic Western novel True Grit -- with Jeff Bridges in the Rooster Cogburn role that won John Wayne an Oscar in 1969. Now it looks like they're getting especially serious, with Matt Damon and Josh Brolin's names arising as front-runners for the supporting roles of a lawman and a killer (respectively). All that's left is to pin down a young girl to play the daughter of the slain man whom Cogburn is seeking vengeance for; if anything, this sounds like the role Kiernan Shipka -- a/k/a patricidal Sally Draper -- was born to play. [BFDealMemo]

A remake you didn't want, Augusten Burroughs shrinks, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Not to deflate your spirits so cruelly after that news, but that godforsaken Short Circuit remake that Dimension Films threatened last year is apparently going through. On the bright side, Paul Blart: Mall Cop director Steve Carr has signed on to provide maximum blandness, holding that sequel up indefinitely. [Variety]

· Augusten Burroughs experienced a bit of a false start in the adaptation racket with his feature-length Running With Scissors, which was stillborn back in 2006. So he and his partners at Katalyst Films are downsizing to Showtime -- where he'll write a comedy based on his book Dry -- and CBS, where he'll help to develop a drama. ""I'm a chimpanzee stepping behind the wheel of a Ferrari," Burroughs actually said via statement. "As long as somebody from Katalyst, CBS or Showtime is there to shout, 'Red means stop,' we should all be fine and come out of this with some very nice television." And yet the reality series Chimpanzee Stepping Behind the Wheel of a Ferrari sounds like it could be so much better then any of it. [Variety]

· Discuss: Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut opposite Liev Schreiber in a revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge. [Variety]

· Comedy Central has picked up with Blue Collar Comedy Tour veteran Ron White's animated series Hounds. White will voice the lead role of Chicken, "a countrified Yoda with a bottle of Jack and a bag of weed, an opinionated Southern philosopher who considers himself the center of the universe." And it'll still be an improvement on The Jeff Dunham Show. [THR]