Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door. Universal Pictures knows this and that is why they are pushing towards bringing Friday Night Lights to the silver screen (again). Variety reports that Universal is in the final stages of negotiations with director David Gordon Green for a new Friday Night Lights movie that will not be like the TV series or previous film from 2004.
The story about Texas football and really, really good-looking people will return. However, it will not be a sequel to the 2004 movie of the same name that starred Billy Bob Thornton. The movie will also not be an update to the Dillon Panthers from the NBC TV show that ran from 2006 until 2011. Instead, the upcoming movie will be a “reimagining” of Friday Night Lights, but it will still be based on H.G. Bissinger’s book about the 1988 Permian High School Panthers. The original movie did $61 million at the domestic box office before it was transformed into a TV series where it won an Emmy.
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David Gordon Green has directed numerous high-profile movies and TV shows including Pineapple Express, Stronger, Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and the new Halloween movie. Let’s hope Green understands that you get one chance in life. You can either take advantage of it, or you can piss it away. You do that latter, and you’re gonna regret it the rest of your lives. So don’t mess up this new Friday Night Lights movie David. Will this even work without Coach Taylor?
[Maxim]