Peacock’s much-anticipated reboot of Friday Night time Lights remains to be getting warmed as much as deal with highschool soccer and center America with a brand new story and a revamped roster. Regardless of the present leaving Dillon behind for one more city in Texas, nonetheless, not less than one acquainted face has been contacted about returning to the sector as soon as extra. In an interview with SiriusXM’s The Highlight with Jessica Shaw selling the premiere of American Primeval this week, Taylor Kitsch shared that he spoke with the workforce behind the brand new Common Tv undertaking about suiting up as troubled former Dillon Panthers fullback Tim Riggins, saying, “I’ve been requested, and we’ll go away it at that.” Although he would not be following within the footsteps of Kyle Chandler‘s Coach Taylor, he additional confirmed that there have been discussions for him “to be part of some form of reboot.”
Riggins sticking near the sector would make sense given the place he left off Friday Night time Lights. After briefly heading off to varsity, the sequence fan-favorite finally settled again in Dillon along with his brother Billy, retaining the motto “Texas Ceaselessly” alive and making an attempt to chart a course for his future after 5 seasons. If Kitsch does finally comply with return in some capability, he would not plan to stay round for lengthy and make Riggins a fundamental character connecting the unique and the reboot. “By no means say by no means, however I might are available and do one thing, possibly for an episode or one thing, however I don’t wanna go and do the entire thing,” he continued. “I’d go and have enjoyable, however I don’t wish to lead an FNL reboot or something. I really like the constantly difficult roles and to maintain pushing.”
Kitsch has additionally indicated he’d be open to a brand new position to relive the glory days of the NBC drama, although he admits that “if you happen to noticed me as another person, you’d be like, ‘That’s Riggins.'” He does have concepts about how Riggins might be reintroduced to the universe although. “I might go do possibly play an opposing workforce’s coach or one thing and be on-screen for eight seconds. I might try this.” No matter method he’d be applied, Kitsch would get to work with loads of previous colleagues who perceive his previous character higher than anybody. The reboot reunites the unique Friday Night time Lights trio of showrunner Jason Katims, director Peter Berg – who additionally helmed the 2004 movie of the identical identify primarily based on H. G. Bissinger‘s 1990 e book – and producer Brian Grazer. Notably, Kitsch and Berg lately reconnected for Netflix’s opioid sequence Painkiller, which Berg directed.
The ‘Friday Night time Lights’ Reboot Seems to Recapture the Themes of the Unique
It will be some time earlier than the reboot hits our screens, but it surely’s already clear that the brand new Friday Night time Lights will nonetheless play with comparable themes to its predecessors. The sequence will middle on a small Texas city recovering from the devastation of a hurricane that has left the group in shambles. As everybody tries to choose up the items, the native highschool soccer workforce turns into an sudden beacon of sunshine when their rag-tag squad makes a miracle run for the Texas Excessive Faculty Championship. On the helm is their broken interim coach, who turns into the middle of the story because the city rallies round their one glimmer of hope of their darkest hour. It is a story that ought to be full of group spirit, excessive strain, and drama aplenty for the gamers and their coach as they band collectively.
For now, nothing is confirmed apart from the mutual curiosity between Kitsch and the Friday Night time Lights reboot workforce. Keep tuned right here at Collider for extra particulars concerning the sequence as they turn out to be accessible.
Friday Night time Lights
A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of many nation’s finest highschool soccer groups, and their head coach Eric Taylor.
- Launch Date
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October 3, 2006
- Seasons
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5
Watch on Prime Video
