Amazon's reboot of the 1992 sports drama, A League of Their Own has added Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman to its growing cast list in the coach role played by Tom Hanks in the original movie. The reboot will take the form of a series featuring an undisclosed number of hour-long episodes, adapting the original movie with new characters and storylines. Taking place in 1943, the series will still show the formation of a women's professional baseball team and will look expand upon the themes of race and sexuality that were only hinted at in the original movie.

Nick Offerman will play Casey "Dove" Porter, a former Cubs pitcher who is enlisted to act as coach the Rockford Peaches. He hopes to make the Peaches champions and gain the glory he was never able to achieve in his own career thanks to blowing his arm out after three years. Offerman joins a case that includes co-creator Abbi Jacobson and Chanté Adams alongside eD'Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Molly Ephraim, Kate Berlant and Melanie Field.

A pilot episode of the series was directed by Jamie Babbit, and it has been claimed that surviving members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League have acted as consultants and will continue to do so with the rest of the series, which is currently filming in Pittsburgh. Creators Jacobson and Will Graham spoke to Penny Marshall, director of the 1992 movie (prior to her passing in 2018) and original star Geena Davis for their blessing to go ahead with the remake.

According to the blurb, the new adaptation will "evoke 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 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."

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in August last year, Graham said, "This series is going to tell the story of inclusion, but it's also going to tell the story of exclusion and what happens when that magic door doesn't open for you - how do you have to find another way to do the thing that you love. I had always been obsessed with the movie. I played Little League for eight years and I'm queer and it was torture and I never felt like I fit in. That's part of why I was so obsessed with the movie as a kid. It's a story that has this queer subtext about how you can find a place on the field. I started looking into the queer history of the league and started thinking of it. Abbi and I were friends and having dinner one night and told her I was thinking about it. She loved the movie and we started talking about it."

This is not the first time someone has tried to remake the movie for television. A CBS sitcom starring Sam McMurray, with Megan Cavanagh and Tracy Reiner reprising their movie roles, was made in 1993. Despite being directed by Marshall and Hanks, the series was a complete flop, with the series being cancelled after three episodes of is six episode season and with one of the episodes never being aired. It is unlikely that the Amazon reboot will suffer the same fate and if nothing else will reignite some nostalgic viewing of the original movie. There is currently no premiere date set for the series.