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"facebook dialogPinterest09 Sep 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA --- \"Connie Britton and Peter Berg (R) attend the 2007 VMA after party hosted by Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner at The Palms Casino Resort Pool on September 9 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  \u00A9 RD/Leon / Retna Digital\" --- Image by \u00A9 Leon/Retna Ltd./CorbisPhoto: Corbis\n\nPeter Berg, the co-creator/executive producer of TV's dearly departed Friday Night Lights, is featured in the May 2012 issue of Details. While we were sitting in the Santa Monica offices of his company, Film 44, talking about Battleship and his absurd college days, FNL's super-hot Connie Britton (aka Tami Taylor) happened to pass by. We pulled her into the room for a quick grilling on the eagerly awaited, will-it-or-won't-it-happen Friday Night Lights movie. Here's the very friendly fly-on-the-wall exchange that ensued.\n\n\u2014Mickey Rapkin\n\nDETAILS: What are your thoughts on the movie?\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: What movie?\n\nPETER BERG: The Friday Night Lights movie.\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: Oh, Friday Night Lights! I haven't even told you this. I had a meeting at [FNL executive producer/showrunner] Jason Katims' office the other day.\n\nPETER BERG: Careful, he's a journalist.\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: I think I can say this. You're the one who shoots off at the mouth all the time and gets yourself in trouble!\n\nPETER BERG: Okay, what do you got?\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: So, I had a meeting at Jason Katims' office. And we were talking about something else and I said, \"Forget about all that. Is this movie going to happen?\" I was sitting on his couch, and he's like, \"Look behind you.\" And I look behind me and it's a wall with a big, huge corkboard on it with all these 3x5 cards. That's what these writers do, they do the whole story on 3x5 cards. He's like, \"That's the movie.\"\n\nPETER BERG: We're doing the movie.\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: I was so excited. Then he's, like, \"Don't look at it! I don't want you to see it until it's a script.\" I'm like, \"I'd better have a good part in it!\"\n\nPETER BERG: Fuck off.\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: I mean, seriously. Then I said, \"You'd better get Kyle Chandler on board.\"\n\nPETER BERG: We've got him.\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: You need to have a conversation with him.\n\nPETER BERG: We'll get him. Here's the crazy thing\u2014I've been traveling around the world for Battleship. And Taylor Kitsch [who plays Tim Riggins on FNL] has been traveling around the world for John Carter. I mean, literally around the world. London, Paris, Germany, Spain, Moscow, Tokyo, Korea, Mexico City, Australia. For real. All those places. Everywhere we go we're talking about Battleship and John Carter, but all they want to talk about is the Friday Night Lights movie. Everywhere. Even in fucking Korea! Taylor is like, \"It's just fucking ridiculous.\"\n\n *\n\nDETAILS: People can't wait. There was a report about the movie that saying it would focus on Coach Taylor and that the story was inspired by Mike Leach, the former Texas Tech coach who was accused of locking a kid in a closet. What about that story resonates with you?\n\n*\n\nPETER BERG: I put Leach in a little cameo in Friday Night Lights and I started to become friends with him, and then he got fired. I really studied that entire situation\u2014his getting fired and the accusations made against him by Adam James, and the pressure that his father, Craig James, put on Leach, using his ESPN bully pulpit. Craig James is a fucking scumbag, helicopter dad\u2014and everything wrong with the culture I observed in Texas. Mike Leach never put that kid in a closet. The kid admitted it. It was a total lie. Now Mike Leach has the Washington State University job and he's got carte blanche. It's a great comeback story.\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: I am so on board. Pete, let's make the movie the same way we did the pilot.\n\nPETER BERG: Naked?\n\nCONNIE BRITTON: Yes, naked and drunk. We were drunk. And sometimes naked. But not on camera."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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