Seventeen years after James Van Der Beek uttered those five immortal words (“I don’t want… your life”), CMT is eyeing a TV version of Varsity Blues.
Varsity Blues starred Van Der Beek as Jonathan “Mox” Moxon, a Texas high school quarterback with big dreams of attending Brown University.
Would you watch a small-screen version of Varsity Blues?
Per our sister site Deadline, CMT has ordered a script for a potential series based on the 1999 football movie. The film’s original writer, W. Peter Iliff, will also write the small-screen adaptation.