Friday Night Lights Reboot in the Works 13 Years After the Hit Show's Finale Aired

Bright Friday night is coming back!

PEOPLE has learned that a reboot of the beloved drama is in the early stages with writers Jason Katims, Pete Berg and Brian Grazer. While it’s not completely official yet, it’s slated to have a new cast still in the world of high school football.

Fans have been hoping for a revival of the drama for years since it ended in 2011 after five seasons. Original Bright Friday night followed the football players and their coach – starring Taylor Kitsch, Minka Kelly, Jesse Plemons, Michael B. Jordan, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden, Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler – in a rural Texas town as they led their lives off the field.

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The NBC program was inspired by HG Bissinger’s 1990 novel of the same name, which was also adapted into a 2004 film starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Garrett Hedlund and Tim McGraw, among others.

(l-r) Connie Britton as Tami Taylor, Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor.

2021, said Connie Britton Party tonight she didn’t think the reboot would ever happen, saying she didn’t see us “getting back into those stories and those characters’ lives.”

“We’re definitely going to do a reunion, like a cast reunion, [but] I don’t see them coming back to that story, at least with this cast,” he said White lotus the actress said then.

“I heard rumors a few years ago that they were going to do another Friday Night Lights,” she continued. “Meanwhile, we know we’ve already had the movie, we’ve already had this TV show, and then if they were to do it again with like, a completely different iteration of it, I don’t know. I think it would be kind of weird.”

Britton admitted, however, that “it would be nice to see” where the characters ended up more than a decade later.

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Minka Kelly also reflected on the success of the multi-Emmy award-winning show on its 13th anniversary in 2019, sharing an Instagram post about how the show changed her life.

“13 (wow) years ago tonight @pberg44 changed my life,” began Kelly, 39. “I was living out of a suitcase at my girlfriend’s apartment when they called me to move to Austin,” Kelly explained. “I called the surgery center where I worked as a nurse and told them I was going to a football show in Texas, but I’d see you again as soon as I got back.”

“There was no way a football show – it was already a movie – about a player who breaks his neck in the pilot episode was going to go anywhere,” she wrote. “But business is business amirite!”

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“But it wasn’t about football,” she wrote. “It was about relationships, family, humanity, love and loss. It was about the desire to fit in and the desire to get out. It was about small town life and how a community comes together in good times and bad.”

Kelly concluded with Bright Friday night slogan: “Clear eyes. Full of heart. I can’t lose. Texas forever. 🤘🏼.”

Bright Friday night is streaming in its entirety on Netflix.

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