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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Sequel within the Works


The ladies are again. Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha confirmed that she is at the moment engaged on a sequel to the beloved 2003 soccer movie Bend It Like Beckham.

“I’m excited to revisit the unique characters and revive the enduring story and construct on the legacy we helped to create for the ladies’s sport,” Chadha instructed Deadline. She added that the unique solid members, together with Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Archie Panjabi, and Juliet Stevenson, “are conscious {that a} sequel is being developed, however they clearly wish to see a script earlier than they commit.”

“I’m fairly sure that everybody’s going to wish to come again,” Chadha mentioned. “Every thing hinges on the script and if the unique solid likes it. I’m working actually onerous to ensure each character I carry again has an honest arc and scenes.”

Chadha co-wrote the 2003 movie with Guljit Bindra and her husband Paul Mayeda Berges, and can seemingly repeat the method for the sequel. “I’m hoping to write down it with Paul, who has give you some very humorous strains like he did final time,” she instructed Deadline.

The director mentioned she has been contemplating making a sequel or a follow-up TV collection for a few years. “I didn’t wish to do something as a result of I didn’t have a narrative,” Chadha mentioned. “After which I got here up with a fantastic story, actually super-cool story. So now I’m impressed. Actually got here up with it nearly a month in the past. It’s my very clear want to carry the characters again very, very quickly. Girls’s soccer is extra aggressive, extra thrilling, and extra international than ever.It’s an honor for me to be a small a part of it.”

Chadha instructed Deadline that her purpose to write down and shoot the sequel for a 2027 launch date, which might coincide with the twenty fifth anniversary of Bend it Like Beckham’s 2002 U.Ok. premiere. The director has been impressed by her current friendship Emma Hayes, head coach of the U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer staff. “Her insights into the world of soccer at her degree are invaluable,” Chadha famous.

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The filmmaker added that originally nobody was thinking about a movie about ladies enjoying soccer, however the current reputation of girls’s skilled soccer has helped renew the concentrate on a sequel. She mentioned that Bend It Like Beckham “was about lifting up ladies and saying, ‘You are able to do and you’ll be something you need despite the fact that society dictates what you may and might’t do,’ and that message continues to be related in the present day, despite the fact that we’ve girls and girls’s soccer sides so enormous world wide.”

She continued, “The movie’s been a part of that legacy, and I really feel there’s extra that I can do. In order that’s what I’m writing and that’s what I’m specializing in. It will likely be hard-hitting, after all, however it should even be extremely joyous. Let’s hope we are able to carry again that very same pleasure and be ok with placing girls and ladies on the map like we did 23 years in the past.”

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