Bend It Like Beckham sequel in the works, director tells BBC

Emma Vardy, in Basel, & Emily AtkinsonBBC NewsSygma through Getty ImagesBend It Like Beckham is about for a sequel greater than 20 years after its launch, its director has confirmed to the BBC. Gurinder Chadha teased the revival in Basel on Saturday, the place England’s Lionesses are getting ready to face world champions Spain in Sunday’s Euro 2025 last. The 2002 movie, which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra, is credited with inspiring a technology of girls to take up soccer. “We have been a part of altering the sport for girls, so it felt like this was a superb time for me to return and examine the characters,” she stated.Chadha has earmarked 2027 for the subsequent instalment, to mark each the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary and the Fifa Ladies’s World Cup in Brazil.Chadha spoke to the BBC in Basel on SaturdayShe stated she was nonetheless not sure what kind the sequel would possibly take, however advised it may both be one other movie or a tv collection.The director instructed the BBC she had been requested nearly twice per week because the authentic movie was launched to provide you with a sequel.”So much has modified because the authentic film, however I believe that individuals nonetheless do not assume that girls ought to play soccer,” she stated. “There are individuals who nonetheless do not take it significantly, though the Lionesses are driving excessive.””I’ve left it some time, however I assumed: have a look at the Euros, have a look at the Lionesses.”Chadha stated she hoped not solely to reunite the unique forged, however that members of the present England squad could be “queuing up” to tackle cameo roles.Grossing nearly £60m on a finances of £3.5m, Bend It Like Beckham was a shock hit that instructed the story of a younger British-Indian woman with a ardour for soccer.Chadha instructed the BBC that she had not anticipated the unique to be so profitable.Her intention, she stated, had been to “uplift ladies, ladies who grew up like me, who have been at all times being instructed how one can costume, how one can look, what to say, what to not say”.”What I did was say you are able to do what you need, and you’ll have all of it, and I believe that is a extremely nice message to place out once more. I believe there’s nonetheless stuff to say, and stuff to problem.”