The film creator said it's "bullsh*t and cowardly" for one to "blame this cancellation on the strike."
Amazon is officially discontinuing A League of Their Own on its platform. The 1992 film was getting a reboot with queer characters in a three-part series when it was canceled.
After the first season of the queer-themed remake of Penny Marshall's sports comedy, it was renewed to have more episodes for a second and final season. However, even after finishing the script for the upcoming episodes prior to the Writers Guild of America strike on May 2, the series has been canceled.
Sources familiar with the matter told the Hollywood Reporter that Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show, plans to scrap it altogether.
The series, co-created and led by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, has been canceled in the midst of Hollywood's first dual strikes since the 1960s, causing a halt in production. Graham and Jacobson fought to secure a second season for the show, negotiating a reduction in the licensing fee with Amazon and Sony Pictures Television.
However, the process of writing and production for the "limited series" was disrupted as writers and performers advocated for higher compensation from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, per the Reporter.
Jacobson, who played the role of a married women who starts falling for other women on the baseball team, shared her thoughts in an Instagram post. She had a very different take on the reason for its cancellation but did not tell the exact reason.
“To blame this cancellation on the strike is bullsh*t and cowardly,” Jacobson said.
With the initial release of the first season, there was a backlash from some online. Jacobson said of the negative responses, "I have seen a lot of people angry and mad at our inclusion of more experiences."
She insisted that the negative feedback "only made [her] more sure about why this reimagining needed to be made" about the film.
The original film, made in 1992, grossed over $107 million at the box office worldwide and was a commercial success. It was also selected by the Library of Congress to be archived in the 2012 film registry that examined "aspect[s] of American sports history, but also effectively examine[d] women’s changing roles during [World War II]."
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2023-08-19T12:01-0500 | Comment by: Dre
I remember watching the movie when it first came out when I was thirteen. The entire time, I thought "gee, this movie is pretty awful but it would be so much better if that one sister scissored Madonna and talked about it incessantly while the other had top surgery!"