Liman is completing the Sean Penn and Naomi Watts film Fair Game for a yet to be announced 2010 release date, but nothing else is set in stone for the director on any new projects. Mike Lobell is producing the picture, and after waiting impatiently with finding a director he could possibly have his shot at finally getting this feature made.

Currently the Coen brothers are in the middle of filming the remake True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper and Hailee Steinfeld. The western is set for a Christmas Day release this year under Paramount Pictures.

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Steinfeld) sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn (Bridges). Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Damon), who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her “grit” tested.

Rae will play a member of Ned Pepper’s gang in the feature under Paramount Pictures. Principal photography is already underway for the flick, set to be released on December 25th.

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Steinfeld) sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn (Bridges). Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Damon), who wants Chaney for his own purposes.

Principal photography is already underway for the picture, set to be released under Paramount Pictures on Christmas Day of this year.

The key missing puzzle was Mattie Ross, the brassy teenager in the film who gets the plot and story rolling when her father is murdered by his cowardly farm hand (Brolin) and she then hires a drunkenirascible U.S. Marshall (Bridges) to track him down. A hard-nosed Texas Ranger (Matt Damon), already on the man’s tail eventually joins there pursuit (The Playlist).

The picture, penned by the Coen brothers, is being produced by Scott Rudin with a December 25th release date from Paramount Pictures.

Paramount is currently set as the distributor for yet another Marvel Enterprises feature Thor, which is currently in the middle of filming. They’re also attached for distribution for the upcoming Steven Spielberg film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.

Lobell previously produced on such pictures as Tears of the Sun and Striptease. Currently he’s in the middle of development with the upcoming Coen brothers version of the 1966 caper comedy entitled Gambit. Castle Rock Entertainment also has another feature knee deep in production, that being the Aaron Eckhart starring action science fiction feature called Battle for Los Angeles.

Jeff Bridges is set to star as U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn (Daily Variety, Sept. 11). Damon would play the lawman who teams with Cogburn and a 14-year-old girl to track her father’s killer into hostile Indian territory. Glen Campbell played the part in the original John Wayne starrer. Josh Brolin is set to play the villain.

This Coen’s version of “True Grit” is more so inspired from the 1968 novel written by Charles Portis. The film is under Paramount Pictures with Joel and Ethan Coen, Steven Spielberg and Scott Rudin producing. The expected release date for this remake and novel adaptation will be possibly between late 2010 to early 2011.