Geena Davis told ScreenRant's Ash Crossan, in an interview for The Boroughs, that she has sequel ideas for two of her best-known films: a follow-up to The Fly called Flies and a continuation of A League of Their Own she’s nicknamed A Little League of Their Own.
“Every character I've ever played. Every movie I've done, I want to do a sequel. Except Thelma & Louise, because... come on! But I love my characters. I had an idea for a sequel to The Fly called Flies. It was a very good idea. I had an idea for a sequel to A League of Their Own, which is A Little League of Their Own. So that's all I think about,” Davis said.
The comments came as Davis reunited on screen with Bill Pullman in The Boroughs; the two have a long professional history together. Pullman, who appeared near the end of the 1992 A League of Their Own as Dottie Hinson's husband Bob, has been candid in interviews about his memories of that film and about television work more broadly.
Pullman told Deadline that, during rehearsals for A League of Their Own, he found himself borrowing a physical habit — a limp — from the cinematographer while trying to make an injured performance feel authentic. “I come into it from the war. I’ve been injured. It’s in the script that I got shot in my foot, and I was at rehearsals we had in Chicago. The DP, [Miroslav Ondříček], had a limp, and I thought ‘This is kind of interesting, you know, to be doing these scenes, and he’s kind of there watching rehearsals, and he’s limping. And then in comes Tom Hanks, and I realized he’s decided to have a limp,” Pullman told Deadline. “[I thought] ‘This is a lot of limping people here, I might have to change [my performance].’ Because you know, you’re very self-conscious with your acting. My leg’s not really broken, but I’m acting it, and I just wanted to be as real as possible. So I just stuck with watching what [Miroslav] did and mimicked that.”
That behind-the-scenes detail is the kind of memory that makes Davis’s sequel pitch feel personal: she has repeatedly signaled interest in revisiting characters, and Pullman and Davis have reunited multiple times on projects since their first pairing. They both appeared in The Accidental Tourist in 1988, a film adapted from Anne Tyler's 1985 novel, a collaboration that Davis followed with later high-profile work; the list of her movies stretches back to The Fly in 1986.
Context sharpens why Davis’s ideas land as news. A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall and about the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, has already inspired follow-ups: it received a sitcom adaptation the year after its theatrical release and, most recently, a 2022 Prime Video series. The Fly itself spawned a sequel, The Fly II — a follow-up the record describes as far worse received than the original.
That history creates friction. Davis is talking sequel at the same time her earlier films have shown how risky revisits can be: The Fly's sequel is widely judged inferior to the original, and A League of Their Own has already been extended into television twice. Pullman has also explained why some TV work used to feel unattractive to him: “I think back to when I was at a point where I didn’t trust being involved with television. I didn’t want to sign a five to seven year contract and not have any control of where the story goes, where my character goes, it just was so antithetical to what I trained in and what I understood to be really satisfying about beginning, middle, and end,” he said. Yet Pullman also described being drawn to one particular television project, saying: “But this one, ‘Oh Jesus, sign me up.’ Really? This is a great group of people. This is a great premise, and this is the one that I [die in] and then I don’t have to do the dirty work of going on all those other episodes and writers coming up with story lines and everything,” he added. “Yeah, I wanted it. So there was a little bit of loss and grief.”
So where does that leave Davis’s idea for A Little League of Their Own? The facts are simple: she said she has the idea, and she said she thinks about revisiting characters; Pullman and Davis have a history that makes such a reunion plausible. But the record also shows how follow-ups have stumbled and how television commitments can be a dealbreaker for actors. The clearest conclusion the available facts support is that Davis’s A Little League of Their Own is a creative impulse voiced publicly—not a production yet poised to begin—and any successful return would have to reckon with the mixed history of both The Fly and A League of Their Own while convincing collaborators that a sequel would honor the original stories rather than dilute them.
