The Perfect Friday Night Lights Crossover Characters For FNL's Reboot

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Friday Night Lights has been lauded as one of the best television shows of the early 2000's, which has contributed to frequent talks of reboots, spin-offs, sequel films, and revivals. Producer Brian Grazer had great news for fans of the show late last year when he announced that he was producing a Friday Night Lights film and television series to reboot the beloved series. But with more than a decade having passed since the original series ended, and because Grazer has stated the new series will take place in another Texas town, the likelihood of seeing characters return from the original series may be unlikely. But fans of the Dillon Panthers and East Dillon Lions could still be rewarded with cameos by their long-time favorites, even if the setting has changed.

Friday Night Lights was loosely based on the 2004 film of the same name, written and directed by the series' creator, Peter Berg, who also played Tami Taylor's ex-boyfriend, Mo McArnold in the season 2 finale, «May the Best Man Win.» The film, which featured Connie Britton, who would later play Tami Taylor in the series, was based on the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream, which was written by Berg's second cousin, H.G. Bissinger. And while the film followed the story portrayed in the book fairly closely, the television series focused on a different team, with a different coach, in a different time and town.

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Following Grazer's announcement on the reboot, it appears that the newest installment in the franchise will do the same thing, jumping forward in time and focusing on a different coach, team, and town. But that doesn't mean that some of the familiar faces from the Kyle Chandler