Friday Night Lights will get a feature film reboot from Universal, with David Gordon Green tapped to direct. Journalist Buzz Bissinger blew the lid off the world of big-time Texas high school football with his best-selling non-fiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. In 2004, Friday Night Lights became a feature film starring Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Peter Berg.
After the film version of Friday Night Lights proved a modest financial success, grossing $61 million at the box office, Berg and NBC adapted the material for the small screen with Kyle Chandler in the role of head coach Eric Taylor. The series ran for five seasons, garnering nine Emmy ...
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