re: Varsity Blues - Whatever happened to Coach Kilmer?

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I have a dream where there is a varsity blues sequel. Mox is a professor at Brown. He gets a phone call from Jules out of the blue to find out her brother Lance (now long time head coach of the Coyotes) and Billy Bob were killed in a car accident on the way home from a coaching clinic. Mox heads back to West Cannan for the first time since graduation for their funerals. Darcy is now a high school teacher, leaving for college but rekindling her romance with Lance and marrying him now dealing with being a widow with their star qb son that just lost his dad. Tweeter, now sheriff, is dealing with the investigation of the accident losing his best friends. Wendell won the Heisman trophy at Grambling and had a long and successful NFL career before retiring and moving into a consulting business. Mox sits at the funeral rekindling some old friendships before the biggest shock when he sees Kilmer walk out at the front of the church to lead the service. Kilmer is now a Baptist preacher and leads the congregation of the small town. They have a terse exchange after the service where Mox doubts his sincerity Mox is asked to stay on and coach the Coyotes, who are in the middle of their season and competing for a championship. Story ensues, you know: -Hooks up with Jules, etc -Deals with getting Lances son to come to terms with his fathers death -Tweeter gets to experience the irony of dealing with football players doing all the same shite he used to do. -Mox and Kilmer finally come to terms with their past, and the events from the last movie

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Great stuff. This should be a series.

Of course you can always go Cobra Kai here and change things up to where Mox returns to town and is seen as the villain. Forcing Kilmer out killed the program and thus the lifeblood of a small town. That leads to Kilmer’s ascension to the pulpit.

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I got such a kick at the dads watching practice and talking about how it was back in their day and how getting chewed out builds character

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shite, them boys is havin' the time of their life!

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I like it. frick Kilmer for not helping him get better offers.

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i mean Wendell hardly ever scored any touchdowns, so...

My sequel idea from 2016 based off of a Bill Simmons suggestion for a sequel, which apparently was close to happening at one point.

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Posted by Jack Ruby ? ? 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.

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The only thing id change, Wendell goes to Grambling but transfers to a bigger school his junior year and wins the heisman there. LSU, Bama, whatever.

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Yeah ain’t nobody winning no Heisman from Grambling lol.

Big snake ate him.

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Whatever happened to Coach Kilmer?

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He lost his 5 Star FSU QB

Da hell with kilmer ,give me more Mrs Davis