By Universal Television and the team behind the original “Friday Night Lights” are getting back together for a reboot of the acclaimed football drama reports Deadline.
The new series will reportedly still be set in the world of high school football, with new characters rather than the previous cast members.
It’s not expected to unfold in the fictional town of Dillon in rural West Texas where the team of the original series was based. The project is said to be in the early stages, but has been taken out to market already.
The property began as a book by H.G. Bissinger adapted into a well-regarded 2004 film by director Peter Berg and producer Brian Grazer.
Two years later, a TV series take was launched to even bigger critical success, with that one having Jason Katims as showrunner and the other two executive producing.
It ran for five seasons with Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden, Scott Porter, Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki and Michael B. Jordan among the cast.
Berg, Grazer and Katims will produce the new series.
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