Bend It Like Beckham sequel within the works after 22 years, director confirms

Greater than 20 years after it first hit cinemas and captured hearts all over the world, a sequel to Bend It Like Beckham is formally in improvement.

Director Gurinder Chadha has confirmed {that a} follow-up to the 2002 cult soccer traditional is on the way in which – with the purpose of launching it in 2027 to mark each the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary and the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in Brazil.

The unique, which starred Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, adopted the story of Jess and Jules – two youngsters defying cultural and societal norms to chase their love for soccer. Full of laughs, tears, household drama and triumphant moments, it shortly grew to become some of the beloved soccer motion pictures of all time.

Now, Chadha says the time feels proper to return to that world.

“Loads has modified for the reason that unique film,” she informed the BBC. “However I believe that individuals nonetheless don’t assume that girls ought to play soccer. There are individuals who nonetheless don’t take it critically.”

She added that the explosion of curiosity in ladies’s soccer, particularly after England’s Lionesses received Euro 2025, has made the thought of a sequel really feel significantly related.

Whereas the shape continues to be to be determined – whether or not a movie or TV collection – Chadha hopes to convey again among the unique forged and teased the potential of cameos from present England internationals.

“I’m fairly sure that everybody’s going to need to come again,” she stated. “Every part hinges on the script and if the unique forged likes it. I’m working actually exhausting to verify each character I convey again has a good arc.”

And whereas David Beckham might not be the poster boy of English soccer, the spirit of the story lives on. So what’s going to they name it this time? Bend It Like Kelly? Time will inform.

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