Abbi Jacobson, D'Arcy Carden, Nick Offerman and more star in Prime Video's TV adaptation of the movie 'A League of Their Own,' premiering Aug. 12.
While writers Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, who stars as Carson, were huge fans of the 1992 film, they wanted to create discussions about the issues the athletes faced.
"We grew up with the movie, and the more we started to explore the real stories underneath it, we saw that there was an opportunity here to tell a story that was broader and included a lot of perspectives that weren't there the first time," Graham told,"but with the same sense of heart and humor and unpretentious fun that everybody loves about the movie."
One such issue they were to keen to explore is racism, with Jacobson saying,"It's definitely something that the movie and Penny Marshall hinted at, but we really wanted to expand it.". Graham said,"This is a story about people who maybe didn't fall in love with the people the world wanted them to, but they had a dream, and they found a way to fall in love and do the thing they wanted to do.
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