Parminder Ok. Nagra in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ – Credit score: Sundance/WireImage
The women 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 forged 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.”
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“I’m fairly sure that everybody’s going to wish to come again,” Chadha mentioned. “Every little thing hinges on the script and if the unique forged likes it. I’m working actually laborious to verify each character I convey again has an honest arc and scenes.”
Chadha co-wrote the 2003 movie with Guljit Bindra and her husband Paul Mayeda Berges, and can probably repeat the method for the sequel. “I’m hoping to put in writing it with Paul, who has provide you with 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 sequence 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 an ideal 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 convey 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 goal to put in writing 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 crew. “Her insights into the world of soccer at her stage are invaluable,” Chadha famous.
The filmmaker added that originally nobody was interested by a movie about ladies taking part in soccer, however the current reputation of ladies’s skilled soccer has helped renew the deal with a sequel. She mentioned that Bend It Like Beckham “was about lifting up ladies and saying, ‘You are able to do and you may be something you need although society dictates what you may and might’t do,’ and that message remains to be related right now, although we’ve girls and ladies’s soccer sides so enormous all over the world.”
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 can even be extremely joyous. Let’s hope we are able to convey 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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