SUBMITTED BY Timbo

December 5, 2003 — Billy Bob Thornton is in negotiations to star in "Friday Night Lights" as the head coach of a high school football team in Odessa, Texas that serves as a liberating release from its troubles each Friday night. The movie, produced by Imagine and directed by Peter Berg, has been on the radar of producer Brian Grazer's for the past fifteen years, and has been adapted from the book by H.G. Bissinger.