A League of Their Own Amazon series preview debuts ahead of premiere in August

A new trailer for the Amazon reboot of A League of Their Own debuted Tuesday.

The trailer is ready to the Stevie Nicks traditional Edge of Seventeen and includes a montage of clips from the forthcoming eight-episode series, primarily based off the All-American skilled ladies’s baseball league that emerged throughout World War II.

The series stems from the 1992 movie from the late Penny Marshall, which had a cast together with Rosie O’Donnell, Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna.

Amazon said in a statement that the series ‘evokes the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall’s beloved traditional, whereas widening the lens to inform the story of a whole technology of ladies who dreamed of enjoying skilled baseball.’

The streaming service mentioned the series ‘takes a deeper take a look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a complete new ensemble of characters as they carve their very own paths in the direction of the sector, each in the league and out of doors of it.’

The present is ready in 1943 and primarily based on a special crew than the Rockford Peaches, the squad featured in the movie 30 years in the past.

The cast of the forthcoming series stars Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw, Chanté Adams as Maxine ‘Max’ Chapman, Priscilla Delgado as Esti, D’Arcy Carden as Greta, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance, Roberta Colindrez as Lupe, Nick Offerman as Dove and Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Toni.

O’Donnell mentioned on the Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino podcast final July that she was set to play ‘a bartender in one of the scenes on the native homosexual bar.’

Series creators Jacobson and Will Graham spoke with The Hollywood Reporter in August of 2020 in regards to the present, explaining the drive to discover areas together with racism and sexuality.

Graham mentioned he ‘had at all times been obsessive about the film,’ including, ‘I performed Little League for eight years and I’m queer and it was torture and I by no means felt like I match in.

‘That’s half of why I used to be so obsessive about the film as a child. It’s a narrative that has this queer subtext about how you will discover a spot on the sector. I began wanting into the queer historical past of the league and began considering of it.’

Jacobson mentioned she ‘grew up loving the film as effectively’ and he or she ‘was in the center of writing season 4 of Broad City’ when Graham requested her to do the project.

‘We had simply achieved this episode with a montage of highly effective, revolutionary ladies, and our editor on the time needed to place Mamie Johnson in it,’ she informed the publication. ‘I didn’t know who she was. She was one of the primary and solely Black ladies to play in the male Negro leagues professionally.

‘When Will and I began speaking in regards to the methods in which we needed to do our model, that felt extra actual, nuanced and gritty and [a way to] incorporate extra ladies’s tales.’

The present is a collaboration between Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television with Field Trip Productions; and primarily based off of the screenplay from Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.

A League of Their Own is ready to debut August 12 on Prime Video.