‘A League Of Their Own’ Series Suiting Up At Amazon
March 31, 2018‘A League Of Their Own’ Series Suiting Up At Amazon
One day after the 2018 Major League Baseball season began comes word of a TV series in development at Amazon based on the 1992 film A League of Their Own. Deadline has confirmed that Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Broad City co-creat0r/star Abbi Jacobson will write and executive produce the comedy from Sony Pictures TV about the World War II-era, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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The principals are in negotiations, but no deals are in place.
It’s described as a new take on the story told in the popular film starring Tom Hanks as the reluctant manager of the Rockford Peaches, whose skirt-clad players included Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell and Lori Petty. The Penny Marshall-directed pic, which also featured Jon Lovitz, Bill Pullman and David Strathairn, grossed $107 million domestically and was the No. 10 film of 1992.
THR first reported the news.