MUMBAI: Production house AMC is developing a period football drama entitled The Real All Americans.

The series is based on Sally Jenkins' book of the same name about Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School and its football programme created by U.S. cavalry officer and abolitionist Richard Henry Pratt.

The football programme had an outstanding record and numbered among its participants coach Glenn "Pop" Warner and Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe.

Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to direct the pilot, while Nicholas Meyer is writing the script.

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was also the subject of the 1992 PBS American Experience documentary In the White Man's Image.

The last film on football was Friday Night Lights.