Kitsch and Britton mention FNL movie
When asked how he feels about continuing the story of Tim Riggins in a Friday Night Lights feature film, Kitsch appears to have mixed feelings:
“I mean I love the way I left it, and Pete knows that. We’re arguably best friends so there’s no filter with Berg and I. I haven’t read the script. I trust him immensely, obviously doing Battleship with him as well. If the script is really great and it’s this small cameo and he asks me to come in, I don’t know. I don’t know. I might say yes, I might just say, ‘Let’s keep Riggs in Dillon and hopefully you run into the guy at a beer story or something,’ let it work that way, of making [the viewers] work. That’s the beauty of FNL, we made you work as a viewer of where Riggs is, where’s Tyra, where that relationship’s going, Coach and all that.”
“I know it’s more centered around the coach and his relationship, like the show was, so I’m guessing if I’m even in the script it would be quite minute. I don’t know if that’s worth it or not yet.”
Furthermore, the production timetable of a Friday Night Lights movie may be quite a ways off. In his most recent update, Berg admitted that a great deal of difficultly comes with getting everyone back together. Kitsch, Chandler, Connie Britton, and Adrianne Palicki have very busy careers at the moment, and Katims is currently running NBC’s Parenthood and prepping for a new show with Jason Ritter, not to mention Berg’s directing slate. Hopefully we’ll know more once Katims finishes the script, but it might be awhile before everyone’s schedules line up. You can watch the portion of Steve’s interview with Kitsch concerning the Friday Night Lights movie below, and be sure to look out for the full interview later this week leading up to the release of John Carter on Friday.
Britton spoke with E! at PaleyFest recently and the update she gave sounds somewhat similar.
"I don't know what the script is going to be like or when we're going to start shooting but they're serious about it." Still, she warns that fans may have to be patient. "I don't think it's going to be a rush because people are really busy doing all of the things that they're doing and Peter Berg has got a big movie coming out this summer."
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