A Friday Night Lights reboot is in development, but the creative team behind the series are also making a new football movie for Netflix, which is perhaps more exciting. After the success of the Friday Night Lights movie, which was released in 2004, its director, Peter Berg, started developing the TV series of the same name. Since it could take its time fleshing out the story and characters, the series was able to explore the role of football in a small Texas town very successfully.

All Friday Night Lights reboot was officially confirmed in December 2024. Peter Berg and executive producer Brian Grazer are returning to develop the reboot, but they are also making a football movie for Netflix, which sounds very exciting.

The Friday Night Lights Team Are Making An Exciting New Football Movie

The Mosquito Bowl Will Be An Emotional Movie About Football

In addition to directing the Friday Night Lights movie and creating the show, Berg has directed several critically acclaimed films, such as Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day. Now, Berg is once again teaming up with Grazer to make a new movie for Netflix. While they have both worked on plenty of different projects, Berg and Grazer clearly both enjoy telling stories about football.

Their Netflix movie will be an adaptation of the novel The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by H.G. Bissinger. Simply titled The Mosquito Bowl, the movie will follow four of the best college football players in America who put their budding careers on hold to the Marines during World War II. Therefore, in addition to being a football film, The Mosquito Bowl will also be a war film. Not many more details are currently known about the movie, but it is definitely a safer project than the Friday Night Lights reboot.

The Friday Night Lights Reboot Is A Big Risk

The Friday Night Lights Reboot May Not Be As Good As The Original Series

Since Friday Night Lights is such a beloved series, the reboot is a major risk for Berg and Grazer. The cast of the original show was incredible, but it has been revealed that the reboot will follow new characters. Since it was only recently confirmed, not many story details about the Friday Night Lights reboot are currently known. However, it will reportedly take place in the aftermath of a Texas storm, and follow a ragtag high school football team as they try to win a state championship.

The Mosquito Bowl is a more unique project than the Friday Night Lights reboot.

This sounds like a promising story, and establishing that the football team is full of underdogs is a smart decision, but I'm still not convinced it can live up to the original Friday Night Lights show. While the reboot is exciting, I'm much more excited to see Berg and Grazer tell a different kind of story about football in The Mosquito Bowl. Overall, The Mosquito Bowl is a more unique project than the Friday Night Lights reboot, which could potentially tarnish the legacy of the original series.