{"id":15366,"date":"2011-08-02T06:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15366"},"modified":"2011-08-02T06:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:26:05","slug":"producer-confirms-friday-night-lights-film-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/02\/producer-confirms-friday-night-lights-film-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Confirms FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Film In Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>First it was a movie, then a television series and now it looks like Friday Night Lights<\/em> might be heading back to the big screen.<\/p>\n

At the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday, producer Peter Berg confirmed that a spin off film picking up from the show’s recently concluded fifth season is in the works. Although a critical success but never a ratings powerhouse, Friday Night Lights<\/em> was a television adaption of the 2004 film about a small Texas town and its support of the local high school football team. The film was in turn adapted from the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream<\/em> by H. G. Bissinger.<\/p>\n

Perg stated that a script is currently being written and “We’re very serious about trying to do it.”<\/p>\n

Well, at least having a script being written puts this project one step ahead of the proposed<\/a> Entourage<\/em> film.<\/p>\n

The film will reportedly feature most, if not all, of the series’s main cast lead by Emmy nominees Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton.<\/p>\n

The question remains will Universal give the script a greenlight? The show famously clung onto its existence despite less-than-stellar ratings, so there is the practical question of a potential audience being big enough to justify making the film. Universal took this gamble before on the Firefly<\/em> film Serenity<\/strong>, and despite positive reviews and a small but loyal fanbase, the film did not do well at the box office. Will the studio be once bitten, twice shy?<\/p>\n

Via Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From book to movie to television and now possibly back to movie.<\/div>\n

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