“League of its own”: the first images of the debut of the Amazon reboot

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On Tuesday, Amazon released the first images of the upcoming reboot of Penny Marshall’s favorite classic. league itself. The eight-episode drama, co-produced by Abby Jacobson and Will Graham and Sony TV, will premiere its first season on Friday, August 12.

The one-minute trailer is Stevie Knicks’ “Seventeen Edge” and features actors like Jacobson, Chante Adams, D’Arcy Carden, and Melanie Field, but does not include an audio series.

Jacobson and Graham told him the hollywood reporter In your first interview turns on That their views are seriously skewed towards sexuality and racism, themes that were not central to Marshall’s 1992 film starring Gina Davis and Lori Pete.

“I have always been fascinated by cinema. I played Little League for eight years and I’m a spinner, it was torture and I never felt I liked it. said Graham. THR In August 2020. “This is part of why I was so obsessed with movies as a kid. This is a story that has a strange subtext about how you can find a place in the country. I started in the difficult history of the league and started to think. ”

Jacobson added: “Will asked me if I wanted to do this together and I immediately said yes. I also grew up with a love for cinema. I was in the middle of writing season four. wide city We just did this episode with a montage of strong, revolutionary women, and our then-editor wanted to put Mamie Johnson in it. I didn’t know who he was. She was one of the first and only black women to play professionally in the League of Black Men. When Will and I started talking about how we wanted to make our version, it was more real and subtle and gritty, and [a way to] Involve more women in the stories.”

See images and other first photos from the series, below.