Back in May of last year it was revealed that Universal Pictures was looking to put together a new adaptation of H. G. Bissinger’s 1990 book Friday Night Lights, and now comes word from Variety that filmmaker John Erick and Drew Dowdle – a.k.a. the Dowdle Brothers – have boarded the project. According to the […]
Friday Night Lights is Great, But Let’s Not Have a New Movie
Neil Calloway isn’t convinced by plans for a new film about High School football… The news that there is going to be a new Friday Night Lights film should be greeted with trepidation. It’s not the big screen spin-off of the TV series that many hoped for (more on this later, but they’re wrong to […]
David Gordon Green to bring Friday Night Lights back to the big screen
HG Bissinger’s book Friday Night Lights has already spawned the brilliant 2004 Billy Bob Thornton movie of the same name, plus a superior television series that ran for five seasons, bringing Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Plemons, and Kyle Chandler as the inimitable Coach Eric Taylor, to the attention of the world. Now Variety are reporting that […]