Friday Night Lights Reboot Finds New Creative Team – /FILM

Just in case you forgot, thatFriday Night Lights reboot movie is still in the works, and it has a new creative team.John Erick and Drew Dowdle, known collectively as The Dowdle Brothers, have been tasked with making this potentially bad idea happen. Rather than follow-up the originalFriday Night Lights movie, or connect to the popular TV series in any way, this newFriday Night Lights will tell a brand new story.

Variety has the new info on theFriday Night Lights reboot I bet you forgot about.The Dowdle Brothers,John Erick and Drew Dowdle, are now handling the project, with both doing a new polish on the script (which was written byDavid Gordon Green and Josh Parkinson), and John Erick directing and Drew executive producing. Per Variety, the movie is not a sequel to Universals 2004 film starring Billy Bob Thornton, nor is it based on NBCs TV series with Kyle Chandler. Instead, its a new property, though still focused on H.G. Bissingers non-fiction book about the 1988 Permian High School Panthers as the new Texas football team makes a run toward the state championship.

The Dowdle Brothers credits include the underseen found-footage horror flickThe Poughkeepsie Tapes, theRec remakeQuarantine, andAs Above, So Below (another found-footage horror film). The fact that the duo have trafficked primarily in the horror genre is a bit interesting, sinceFriday Night Lights doesnt fit in with that at all. Are we getting aFriday Night Lights horror movie? No, were not although I would gladly watch that. Call itFriday Nightmare on Elm Street Lights or something. Feel free to use that,Dowdle Brothers!

H.G. Bissingers book followed thePermian Panthers of Odessa the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. The book was adapted into a 2004 film by Peter Berg, and while that movie wasnt a smash hit, it was enough to inspire a TV series of the same name. The series had a devoted fan-following and burned Clear eyes, full hearts, cant lose into the pop culture lexicon. But will audiences want a whole new version of this story? Wouldnt they be more inclined to watch a movie that, at the very least, brought backKyle Chandlers coach character? I guess well find out.

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