‘A League of Their Own’: The Teaser Trailer for the Amazon Series Just Dropped
Fans of the 1992 film, A League of Their Own remember its debut like it was yesterday. The movie starred Madonna, Geena Davis, Rosie O’Donnell, and Tom Hanks. Set in the 1940s the movie followed an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during World War II. Now, Amazon Prime Video is rebooting the story as a series.
Prime Video’s A League of Their Own will bring an entirely new cast of women together from very different walks of life. In fact, we just got a glimpse at what is to come with a brand new teaser trailer.
Amazon’s ‘A League of Their Own’ is based on the 1992 movie
In a press release for the new show, Prime Video said,
A League of Their Own evokes the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall’s beloved classic, while widening the lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball,” the official synopsis states. “The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the League and outside of it.
Prime Video just released a teaser trailer for ‘A League of Their Own’
The series is set to debut on Aug. 12 on Prime Video. The extensive cast of the series includes Abbi Jacobson as Carson, Chanté Adams as Max, D’Arcy Carden as Greta, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance, Roberta Colindrez as Lupe, Nick Offerman as Dove, Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Toni, Kate Berlant as Shirley, Kendall Johnson as Gary, Kelly McCormack as Jess, Alex Désert as Edgar, Priscilla Delgado as Esti, Aaron Jennings as Guy, Molly Ephraim as Maybelle, Melanie Field as Jo, Dale Dickey as Beverly.
Though the streaming service has only released a teaser trailer we can see glimpses of the women both on the field and in their daily lives.
Moreover, Rosie O’Donnell is set to reprise her role in the series. She told Entertainment Weekly that it feels “especially poignant” since she always “interpreted her character of Doris Murphy as a lesbian, despite the fact she was never officially identified as one.”
Tom Hanks said that ‘A League Of Their Own’ is one of his favorite movies
Though Tom Hanks won’t be appearing in the series as far as we know, the beloved actor says that filming the movie is still one of the favorites of all time.
“Number one would be A League of Their Own because all I did all summer was play baseball….I had all my kids with me, I had all my family with me, it was a big-ass summer in the Midwest,” Hanks told The Digital Fix. “We lived in a house in the middle of cornfields. We went to Burger King at night and Dairy Queen in the afternoon. It was a great summer and my entire family still speaks about it.”
