What heated rivalry? A queer women's basketball rom-com with actual WNBA players is in the works

Women’s hoops is yet getting the queer rom-com it deserves.

Media institution Run-A-Muck has announced that it is processing “Courtside,” a sports romanticist drama acceptable successful the satellite of nonrecreational basketball. WNBA All-Star Gabby Williams, two-time WNBA champion Sydney Colson and 2022 WNBA champion Theresa Plaisance are among those acceptable to look successful the movie, according to Deadline.

“If you similar ‘Love & Basketball’ and ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and ‘Bring It On’ but you recovered yourself wondering, ‘Could this possibly beryllium a small spot gayer?’ We person large quality for you,” Colson said successful a Thursday Instagram post. “The reply is yeah, you could ever marque it gayer.”

Colson, a Texas A&M standout who was drafted to the WNBA successful 2011, is besides 1 of the enforcement producers connected “Courtside.”

Written by “Abbott Elementary” writer-producer Brittani Nichols and directed by Carly Usdin, the movie volition travel an injury-plagued women’s hoops superstar with title ambitions who is thrown for a loop erstwhile she falls for a teammate.

“Making a movie similar this is ace breathtaking to maine due to the fact that I grew up playing basketball,” Colson added. “I would person loved arsenic a young idiosyncratic to spot my communicative depicted ... connected surface truthful to spot a squad of radical who privation to guarantee that others tin spot characters and storylines that consciousness idiosyncratic and acquainted to them. I’m truthful excited astir it.”

Colsen and Plaisance, who won a title unneurotic arsenic teammates connected the Las Vegas Aces successful 2022, stock a podcast and besides starred successful the unscripted buddy drama “The Syd + TP Show” together. Williams, who plays for France successful planetary competition, presently plays connected the Golden State Valkyries.

“It feels similar I’ve been waiting my full beingness for this benignant of excitement to situation women’s basketball, and I’m excited to blend my emotion of sports, lesbian tension, and drama into 1 project,” Nichols told Deadline. According to the outlet, Run-A-Muck co-founder and “The L Word” prima Jennifer Beals is besides slated to look successful the project.