A possible reboot of Friday Night Lights is staying inside the NBCUniversal household.
Peacock has gained a bidding struggle for the venture, which is now in growth on the NBCU-owned streamer. Universal Television, which produced the critically beloved 2006-11 sequence, has been engaged on a brand new model of the present, nevertheless it wasn’t arrange at a community or streamer prior to now.
The new model will reunite a number of key members of the unique present’s inventive group: sequence creator and pilot director Peter Berg, showrunner Jason Katims and government producer Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment. All three will exec produce the reboot, together with Imagine’s Kristen Zolner, with Katims once more serving as showrunner.
The logline for the brand new FNL reads, “Following a devastating hurricane, a ragtag highschool soccer group and their broken, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas highschool state championship, changing into a beacon of sunshine for his or her city.” That description would seemingly transfer the brand new venture out of the unique present’s fictional locale of Dillon, Texas, which — based mostly on all proof from its 5 seasons — was not located alongside the state’s Gulf Coast.
Friday Night Lights was impressed by a 1990 nonfiction guide by H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger in regards to the soccer group at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. Berg directed and co-wrote a 2004 function movie adaptation of the guide earlier than creating the sequence, which ran on NBC and DirecTV’s 101 Network.
Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton headed the forged of the unique, starring with Jesse Plemons, Taylor Kitsch, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Gaius Charles, Scott Porter, Aimee Teegarden, Adrianne Palicki and Michael B. Jordan, amongst others. The present was a launchpad for quite a lot of the actors who portrayed college students and soccer gamers.
The sequence was by no means a breakout hit — therefore the network-sharing settlement between NBC and DirecTV for seasons three via 5 — nevertheless it was a crucial favourite with a cult following. Friday Night Lights gained three Emmys, together with greatest lead actor in a drama for Chandler and greatest writing for a drama (Katims) in its last season.
Deadline first reported the information.
