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Varsity Blues Sequel Idea
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:35 am
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:35 am
Just caught the end of Varsity Blues and reminded me of hearing Simmons talk about this on a podcast once with the original movie producer and the idea Bill pitched was actually pretty good. The recent death of both Paul Walker and Billy Bob would hurt but it actually kind of adds to Simmons story.
Basically the gist of the idea is Mox became a multi millionaire Wall Street guy and became burnt out with the rat race lifestyle. The reason he comes back is for Lance's (and Billy Bob's) funerals. Lance became the West Canaan head coach and Billy Bob was his top assistant. They both (also along with the other coaches) die in a car crash while riding together on some kind of football trip or something 2 games into the season.
The high school comes to Moxon and asks if he'll interim as a coach because they lost the whole staff and Mox being both an alum, and doesn't need the money becomes the new coach. His family hates Texas because they were raised in rich NY. He didn't marry Amy Smart.
Tweeter is also still in town as maybe a kind of burnt out has been who runs a bar or something now. Moxon recruits him to be his assistant. This would be a much more adult, grown up type of movie and not essentially a 90s teen movie like the first one. Maybe a combination of Varsity Blues, Friday Night Lights, and a drama.
Of course Ali Larter is still around, maybe she even married Tweeter for a few years but divorced him. She also married some rich guy but that marriage ended shortly also. She is back and teaching at the high school now and closer to her family since her marriages have not been good. Her and Moxon still have feelings for each other plus she's still extremely hot.
Kilmer will also make a cameo, as Voight is still around and still a damn good actor. He quit coaching, re married, and became a preacher and changed his life. He meets Mox because he travels through West Texas now preaching. They have only one scene together where he tells Moxon his regrets about how he treated everyone and actually give Moxon some advice on coaching. If written well it could be very good.
There would also be football scenes, but that is really just a backdrop for the movie. The real story is about the relationships of the surviving cast and how their lives either turned out good or not so good and maybe the football team can bring them together again.
I took Bill Simmons' basic premise and added quite a bit to it. It could actually working done well enough. I'd watch this, the nostalgia and fanbase is still there for the movie to make decent money.
Basically the gist of the idea is Mox became a multi millionaire Wall Street guy and became burnt out with the rat race lifestyle. The reason he comes back is for Lance's (and Billy Bob's) funerals. Lance became the West Canaan head coach and Billy Bob was his top assistant. They both (also along with the other coaches) die in a car crash while riding together on some kind of football trip or something 2 games into the season.
The high school comes to Moxon and asks if he'll interim as a coach because they lost the whole staff and Mox being both an alum, and doesn't need the money becomes the new coach. His family hates Texas because they were raised in rich NY. He didn't marry Amy Smart.
Tweeter is also still in town as maybe a kind of burnt out has been who runs a bar or something now. Moxon recruits him to be his assistant. This would be a much more adult, grown up type of movie and not essentially a 90s teen movie like the first one. Maybe a combination of Varsity Blues, Friday Night Lights, and a drama.
Of course Ali Larter is still around, maybe she even married Tweeter for a few years but divorced him. She also married some rich guy but that marriage ended shortly also. She is back and teaching at the high school now and closer to her family since her marriages have not been good. Her and Moxon still have feelings for each other plus she's still extremely hot.
Kilmer will also make a cameo, as Voight is still around and still a damn good actor. He quit coaching, re married, and became a preacher and changed his life. He meets Mox because he travels through West Texas now preaching. They have only one scene together where he tells Moxon his regrets about how he treated everyone and actually give Moxon some advice on coaching. If written well it could be very good.
There would also be football scenes, but that is really just a backdrop for the movie. The real story is about the relationships of the surviving cast and how their lives either turned out good or not so good and maybe the football team can bring them together again.
I took Bill Simmons' basic premise and added quite a bit to it. It could actually working done well enough. I'd watch this, the nostalgia and fanbase is still there for the movie to make decent money.
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 2:07 am
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Posted on 7/5/16 at 1:53 am to Jack Ruby
I actually really like this...
Posted on 7/5/16 at 3:09 am to Jack Ruby
If they made a sequel, wouldn't matter the idea behind it, I'd watch the Hell out of it
Posted on 7/5/16 at 5:12 am to Jack Ruby
I don't want your life
Posted on 7/5/16 at 6:25 am to tigerman03
I don't want your knife.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 6:25 am to Jack Ruby
quote:
Varsity Blues Sequel Idea by Jack Ruby
quote:
Basically the gist of the idea is Mox became a multi millionaire Wall Street guy and became burnt out with the rat race lifestyle. The reason he comes back is for Lance's (and Billy Bob's) funerals. Lance became the West Canaan head coach and Billy Bob was his top assistant. They both (also along with the other coaches) die in a car crash while riding together on some kind of football trip or something 2 games into the season.
The high school comes to Moxon and asks if he'll interim as a coach because they lost the whole staff and Mox being both an alum, and doesn't need the money becomes the new coach. His family hates Texas because they were raised in rich NY. He didn't marry Amy Smart.
Tweeter is also still in town as maybe a kind of burnt out has been who runs a bar or something now. Moxon recruits him to be his assistant. This would be a much more adult, grown up type of movie and not essentially a 90s teen movie like the first one. Maybe a combination of Varsity Blues, Friday Night Lights, and a drama.
Of course Ali Larter is still around, maybe she even married Tweeter for a few years but divorced him. She also married some rich guy but that marriage ended shortly also. She is back and teaching at the high school now and closer to her family since her marriages have not been good. Her and Moxon still have feelings for each other plus she's still extremely hot.
Kilmer will also make a cameo, as Voight is still around and still a damn good actor. He quit coaching, re married, and became a preacher and changed his life. He meets Mox because he travels through West Texas now preaching. They have only one scene together where he tells Moxon his regrets about how he treated everyone and actually give Moxon some advice on coaching. If written well it could be very good.
There would also be football scenes, but that is really just a backdrop for the movie. The real story is about the relationships of the surviving cast and how their lives either turned out good or not so good and maybe the football team can bring them together again.
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Would watch
Posted on 7/5/16 at 6:49 am to Pectus
quote:
I don't want your knife.
I don't want your wife.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 7:42 am to GEAUXmedic
Billy Bob died. Damn. That sucks.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 7:58 am to Jack Ruby
IWWI
Posted on 7/5/16 at 8:23 am to Jack Ruby
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Ali Larter
If there is a guarantee that I'd get to see her naked ... then I would watch it for that reason alone.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 8:41 am to Jack Ruby
I'd watch this.
But dammit will there be whipped cream bikinis?
But dammit will there be whipped cream bikinis?
Posted on 7/5/16 at 8:43 am to Jack Ruby
Tweeter needs to become a cop and has to put up with the same high schooler crap that he put cops through.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 8:44 am to Jack Ruby
I actually really like this. Someone get a Gofundme or whatever like they did for the Veronica Mars movie.
Brian Robbins actually strikes me as the kind of dude that would be really open to something like that. If you could Peter Berg involved as well you could really have the makings of something special.
This is the thing I think you're off on. Mox was a literature fiend. Have him be a writer that had a best seller, possibly about his high school football days in Texas, but has had a couple of flops since then, writers block whatever, and by returning to his roots he gets inspiration to write again.
At first I was thinking Kilmer would be some snake oil salesman faux preacher, but the more I thought about it it actually could work with him being sincere.
Maybe even work in Mox's little brother who was a religious freak becoming his protege or something and him convincing Mox to sit down and talk with him. Otherwise, Mox probably wouldn't agree to see him.
You're right though, if done well, a scene like that could be really fricking awesome. Kilmer could have even had repaired his relationship with Lance and Billy Bob over the years and comes back for the funeral too. Mox is pissed and suspicious at first but eventually comes to see he really has changed.
Hell, his next book could even be about a sinner turned saint.
MTV Movie Awards Best Pic right there
Brian Robbins actually strikes me as the kind of dude that would be really open to something like that. If you could Peter Berg involved as well you could really have the makings of something special.
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Mox became a multi millionaire Wall Street guy and became burnt out with the rat race lifestyle.
This is the thing I think you're off on. Mox was a literature fiend. Have him be a writer that had a best seller, possibly about his high school football days in Texas, but has had a couple of flops since then, writers block whatever, and by returning to his roots he gets inspiration to write again.
quote:
Kilmer will also make a cameo, as Voight is still around and still a damn good actor. He quit coaching, re married, and became a preacher and changed his life. He meets Mox because he travels through West Texas now preaching. They have only one scene together where he tells Moxon his regrets about how he treated everyone and actually give Moxon some advice on coaching. If written well it could be very good.
At first I was thinking Kilmer would be some snake oil salesman faux preacher, but the more I thought about it it actually could work with him being sincere.
Maybe even work in Mox's little brother who was a religious freak becoming his protege or something and him convincing Mox to sit down and talk with him. Otherwise, Mox probably wouldn't agree to see him.
You're right though, if done well, a scene like that could be really fricking awesome. Kilmer could have even had repaired his relationship with Lance and Billy Bob over the years and comes back for the funeral too. Mox is pissed and suspicious at first but eventually comes to see he really has changed.
Hell, his next book could even be about a sinner turned saint.
MTV Movie Awards Best Pic right there
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 8:59 am
Posted on 7/5/16 at 8:45 am to Tiger Voodoo
Lots of good ideas in this thread.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 8:51 am to Jack Ruby
Read the whole thing, would most definitely watch.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 9:02 am to Tiger Voodoo
I like the idea of him becoming a writer and is in a slump finding and ending for what he's currently working on. He comes back to west cannaan for inspiration and the coaching job gives him the ending to his book.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 9:07 am to VanRIch
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Tweeter needs to become a cop and has to put up with the same high schooler crap that he put cops through.
Definitely Also, Billy Bob should have married Miss Davis. She is his widow now and their son is the star of the team Mox takes over.
I think Darcy would have married Lance instead of Tweeter. She could be a teacher or principal at WCHS.
And Amy Smart has to be in it because she would at least be there for Lances funeral. If Mox is in an unhappy marriage, have him and Julie fall in love again and ditch the New York wife.
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 9:14 am
Posted on 7/5/16 at 9:31 am to Tiger Voodoo
quote:
Maybe even work in Mox's little brother who was a religious freak becoming his protege or something and him convincing Mox to sit down and talk with him. Otherwise, Mox probably wouldn't agree to see him.
Or he could have ended up as American Taliban like that John Walker Lind fricker.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 9:40 am to navy
that was a distinct possibility. The different directions you could go with these characters are endless
Posted on 7/5/16 at 9:59 am to Tiger Voodoo
All you guys are missing is Wendell, back in town for the funeral after he played his Grambling scholarship into a short but successful career in the NFL.
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