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

Bend 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 making ready to face world champions Spain in Sunday’s Euro 2025 ultimate.

The 2002 movie, which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra, is credited with inspiring a era of girls to take up soccer.

“We have been a part of altering the sport for ladies, so it felt like this was 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 Girls’s World Cup in Brazil.

She stated she was nonetheless not sure what kind the sequel would possibly take, however steered it may both be one other movie or a tv sequence.

The director advised the BBC she had been requested virtually twice every week because the unique movie was launched to give you a sequel.

“So much has modified because the unique film, however I believe that folks nonetheless do not assume that ladies ought to play soccer,” she stated.

“There are individuals who nonetheless do not take it critically, though the Lionesses are driving excessive.”

“I’ve left it some time, however I assumed: take a look at the Euros, take a look at the Lionesses.”

Chadha stated she hoped not solely to reunite the unique forged, however that members of the present England squad can be “queuing up” to tackle cameo roles.

Grossing virtually £60m on a price range of £3.5m, Bend It Like Beckham was a shock hit that advised the story of a younger British-Indian lady with a ardour for soccer.

Chadha advised 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 advised methods to gown, methods to 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.”