‘Friday Evening Lights’ Reboot: Solid, Plot and Information

Followers of Friday Evening Lights can’t lose.

On Dec. 11, Peacock introduced that an adaptation of the Emmy award-winning soccer collection was formally in growth.

The world was first launched to the fictional Panthers crew within the 2004 movie Friday Evening Lights, directed by Peter Berg and starring Billy Bob Thorton, Tim McGraw, Amber Heard and Connie Britton. Impressed by Buzz Bissinger’s 1990 best-selling novel of the identical title, the movie received greatest sports activities film on the 2005 ESPY Awards. The next 12 months, Berg tailored the story right into a collection and solid Kyle Chandler within the now iconic function of Coach Eric Taylor, with Britton taking part in his spouse, Tami Taylor. 

“As quickly as we met, it was clear that the casting was excellent,” the actor mentioned of his costar in a 2011 interview with NPR. “Initially, I believe we shook palms, mentioned howdy, and inside 10 seconds have been already beginning to barb on one another.” 

Although most of the faces modified, with a solid together with Minka Kelly, Jesse Plemons and Michael B. Jordan, the premise of the story at all times remained the identical: a close-knit, small-town Texas group the place highschool soccer is not only a sport however a lifestyle. 

13 years after the present ended, the Panthers and all their drama are coming again to life on Peacock. Right here’s all the things to know concerning the Friday Evening Lights reboot. 

Who’s within the new Friday Evening Lights solid? 

Although members of the present’s inventive crew are returning (together with Berg as director, Jason Katims as showrunner and Brian Grazer as government producer), the brand new iteration of Friday Evening Lights is slated to characteristic an all-new solid.

This doesn’t come as a lot of a shock, contemplating it’s been over 10 years because the final Friday Evening Lights episode aired, and Britton even mentioned a reboot with the unique solid could be “type of odd.” 

“I do not see them going again into that story, not less than with this solid,” The White Lotus actress instructed Leisure Tonight in 2021. “We all know we have 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, an entire totally different iteration of it, I do not know. I might suppose that will be type of odd.”

Berg echoed related sentiments about rebooting the unique storyline in a 2023 interview with Collider, saying, “I’ll name Kyle Chandler or Connie Britton, who I like a lot, and we’ll be like, ‘Yeah, however why?’ It was an important relationship. We’ve nothing however nice reminiscences. Why take the possibility of coming again, after which we find yourself hating one another.”

The unique Friday Evening Lights present solid additionally included Taylor Kitsch, Zach Gilford and Scott Porter.

What’s the Friday Evening Lights reboot about?

Based on Peacock’s announcement, the difference begins not with a game-winning rating however with a crippling storm. 

“The potential collection takes place within the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, when a ragtag highschool soccer crew and their broken interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas Excessive Faculty State Championship,” the present’s logline reads. “By their sudden rise, the soccer crew turns into a beacon of sunshine for his or her city.”

Who’s directing the Friday Evening Lights reboot?

Peter Berg is directing the brand new Friday Evening Lights reboot for Peacock. He has not solely a lengthy historical past with the story itself — directing each the film and being an government producer of the hit collection — but in addition a private connection to the e book that impressed all of it: the writer is his cousin. 

In a 2004 interview with the Milford Each day Information, Berg mentioned that his script was the eighth try to show Bissinger’s novel, which chronicles the 1988 season of the Odessa Permian Excessive Faculty soccer crew, right into a film. 

“To me, (the e book) really was consultant of a second in life that was very particular,” the director mentioned. “There is a scene when a father appears at his child and says, ‘Simply do not miss this.’ That form of sums it up.”

How did Friday Evening Lights finish?

After 76 episodes and 5 seasons, Friday Evening Lights aired for the final time in 2011. Within the finale, the Dillon Panthers performed their final sport earlier than Coach Taylor and Tami left for her new job in Philadelphia. 

In a flash-forward, viewers be taught that the crew received the state championship, Jess moved to Dallas to teach and Tim and Billy are constructing a home collectively.

Although the ending does go away room for a lot of the collection’ favourite characters to return, the reboot will reportedly have a model new solid. 

The place can I watch Friday Evening Lights?

Whereas the discharge date for the reboot has but to be introduced, followers can stream all 5 seasons of the unique Friday Evening Lights collection — and the 2004 movie — on Netflix.