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Yet again, the talentless fools in Hollyweird lazily resurrect another
oldie idea, rather than do anything actually creative and new. :-\
Bend It Like Beckham sequel in the works, director tells BBC
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Bend It Like Beckham is set for a sequel more than 20 years after
its release, its director has confirmed to the BBC.
Gurinder Chadha teased the revival in Basel on Saturday, where
England's Lionesses are preparing to face world champions Spain
in Sunday's Euro 2025 final.
The 2002 film, which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra,
is credited with inspiring a generation of women to take up
football.
"We've been part of changing the game for women, so it felt like
this was a good time for me to go back and investigate the
characters," she said.
Chadha has earmarked 2027 for the next instalment, to mark both
the film's 25th anniversary and the Fifa Women's World Cup in
Brazil.
She said she was still unsure what form the sequel might take,
but suggested it could either be another film or a television
series.
The director told the BBC she had been asked almost twice a
week since the original film was released to come up with a
sequel.
"A lot has changed since the original movie, but I think that
people still don't think that women should play football," she
said.
"There are people who still don't take it seriously, although
the Lionesses are riding high."
"I've left it a while, but I thought: look at the Euros, look at
the Lionesses."
Chadha said she hoped not only to reunite the original cast, but
that members of the current England squad would be "queuing up"
to take on cameo roles.
Grossing almost £60m on a budget of £3.5m, Bend It Like Beckham
was a surprise hit that told the story of a young British-Indian
girl with a passion for football.
Chadha told the BBC that she had not expected the original to be
so successful.
Her intention, she said, had been to "uplift girls, girls who grew
up like me, who were always being told how to dress, how to look,
what to say, what not to say".
"What I did was say you can do what you want, and you can have it
all, and I think that's a really great message to put out again.
I think there's still stuff to say, and stuff to challenge."
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