Friday Evening Lights followers prepare for a brand new technology to stay by the motto: “Clear eyes, full coronary heart, can’t lose.”
The critically acclaimed drama is in talks to be rebooted with Common Tv, per a number of experiences. Puck initially broke the information.
Deadline reported on Thursday, November 14 that the sequence’ authentic creators Jason Katims, Pete Berg and Brian Grazer are concerned within the undertaking. The brand new adaptation is at present within the early phases.
The brand new sequence will nonetheless be set on the earth of highschool soccer. The reimagined present will deal with new characters relatively than the earlier solid.
Friday Evening Lights premiered in 2006 and advised the story of a highschool soccer staff in a small Texas city. It was initially based mostly on H.G. Bissinger’s ebook and a 2004 movie of the identical title, The TV present had an all-star solid that included Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Minka Kelly, Aimee Teegarden, Michael B. Jordan and extra. Friday Evening Lights went on for 5 seasons earlier than it wrapped up for good in 2011.
For the reason that present ended, there have been talks a couple of potential reboot or a brand new movie adaptation. Grazer beforehand acknowledged that the concept of a film was being floated round.
“We’re engaged on one other Friday Evening Lights film in Del Rio, Texas on a border city that takes place in 2015,” the producer stated in a 2021 interview with Collider. “[We hope to be making that [in] the start of subsequent 12 months.”
Grazer teased that the massive display undertaking could lead on “into a brand new sequence that takes place in a more moderen time.”
Whereas Friday Evening Lights followers have been hopeful to see the sequence return sooner or later, Britton, 57, was skeptical. She beforehand shared she couldn’t see the present being rebooted with the unique stars.
“We’ll do a reunion for positive, like a solid reunion, [but] I don’t see them going again into that story, no less than with this solid,” the actress stated in a July 2021 interview with Leisure Tonight. “I heard inklings a number of years in the past that they have been gonna make one other Friday Evening Lights. Now in the meantime, we all know we’ve already had a film, we already had this TV present, after which in the event that they have been to do it once more with like, a complete completely different iteration of it, I don’t know. I might assume that will be kind of odd.”
Nonetheless, different stars have expressed their curiosity in presumably returning. Zach Gilford can be down on one situation.
“What made that present was the authenticity,” Gilford, 42, completely advised Us Weekly in Could. “So long as there was some storyline that wasn’t contrived to carry quite a few the characters again collectively, I’m all for it.”