Exclusive: An update to 'Varsity Blues' has been ordered to series at Quibi, the modern take on the high-school football movie comes from 'Stuber' writer Tripper Clancy
The West Canaan Coyotes live again: Quibi has given a series order to an update of the 1999 high school football movieThe series comes from writer Tripper Clancy and Paramount Television . Like the movie, the Quibi show will follow members of a high school football team and their battles with a demanding coach.
Two of the movie's producers, Mike Tollin and Tova Laiter, will executive produce the series along with John Gatins and Peter Guber. Tollin and Guber's MSM produces with Paramount TV. Anne Fletcher directs, and Maia Glickman will oversee the project for MSM. Quibi put the project in development in July as it was ramping up its acquisitions ahead of a planned April 2020 launch.
The film's cast also included Amy Smart, Ali Larter, Scott Caan, Ron Lester, Eliel Swinton and Thomas F. Duffy, who played Mox's father and was the subject of Van Der Beek's famous "I don't want your life!" line .. CMT was developing a show with the film's writer, W. Peter Iliff, in 2016, but it didn't move forward as the network pulled back from scripted series.
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