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There’s yet another reboot in the works: Peacock is developing a new Friday Night Lights.
The original series, which aired for five seasons from 2006 to 2011, was based on the 2004 film of the same name and the 1990 novel Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger.
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The creative team behind the original FNL—showrunner Jason Katims, director Peter Berg, and producer Brian Grazer—will reunite to executive produce the reboot.
“It’s a complete reinvention of the show,” Berg told Esquire. “We want to do it with a whole new cast, but obviously there’ll be football in it. But the original show was done a long time ago. There were no cell phones. No social media. It was a very different world, and yet the same values still exist, and the same family dynamics exist. Football’s only grown in its relevance in communities all over the country. So, the core themes of Friday Night Lights—that were revealed by Buzz Bissinger when he wrote the book—are very much present. There’s just so many new elements, so we want to look at that. And if certain cast members come back, have appearances, that’s great. But if Friday Night Lights works, it’ll be because it works as a reinvention.”
The official logline for the new Friday Night Lights, per Deadline, “will be set following a devastating hurricane, when a rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship and become a beacon of light for their town.”
It will air on Peacock, but no further details have been announced yet.
Recently, Taylor Kitsch—who played Tim Riggins in the series—revealed he had been approached about the reboot. “I’ve been asked and we’ll leave it at that,” Kitsch said on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight. He added he wouldn’t want to “lead” the reboot, but “I would come in and do something that maybe for an episode or something.”
Kitsch continued, “I think if you saw me as someone else, you’d be like, ‘That’s Riggins.’” His pitch: “I would go do maybe play an opposing teams coach or something and be on screen for like eight seconds. I would do that.”
We’ll update this as we learn more about the Friday Night Lights reboot.
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