Yass Queen! Amazon is getting Broad City's Abbi Jacobson to co-write and executive produce A League of Their Own, a series based on the early 1990s movie starring Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell and Madonna in one of her very few good acting roles.

The Hollywood Reporter states that Jacobson won't star in the series, but will work with Mozart in the Jungle's Will Graham to bring it to screen.

The project is said to be a series of half-hour episodes and will be more of a modern look at the story rather than a traditional reboot featuring the same characters.

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An official tagline reads: "A League of Their Own is a half-hour comedy infusing the warmth, humour and DNA of the classic film, while taking a contemporary spin on the stories of the women surrounding the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

"The show will begin with the formation of the league in 1943 and follows the Rockford Peaches, season to season as they struggle to keep the team alive through close games, injuries, late night bar crawls, sexual awakenings, not crying and road trips across a rapidly changing United States.

"The series dives deeper into the issues facing the country while following a ragtag team of women figuring themselves out while fighting to realise their dreams of playing professional baseball."

The original theme touched upon themes such as racial segregation as well as feminism, so we should see the series tackle these in more detail when it eventually swings onto screen.

Amazon has been chucking plenty of money around to get its streaming sevices to rival Netflix, recently.

Their biggest project looks to be their The Lord of the Rings adaptation, while the UK arm has also nabbed a Marvel project with Cloak & Dagger.

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