Bend like Beckham tracking on the pipeline for more than 20 years after the original film was released | Women’s football
More than twenty years after its release Writer and director Gurinder Chadha Obe said he plans to play the extremely popular story.
On the eve of the 2025 Euro final, where the toothlessness would try to defend their crowns against Spain in Basel, Chadha, Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers talked about the follow -up of the film. What kind of form will be the continuation of the feature film, series or alternative.
“I am very happy to be here for the Euro in Basel, the atmosphere is incredible,” Chadha said. “What I can share with you today is a very clear wish to bring back to you and the audience very soon like Beckham from the beloved characters Bend. Women’s football is more competitive, more exciting and more global than ever before.
Chadha, who has received demands for the return of the story for years, but waited for the right land to come to the right land in order not to darken the legacy, said, “I could not find a great story for a good story after 23 years and as the original. Beckham bend like tracking. “
Bend It Beckham, launched in 2002, showed that the balance of football Jesminder Jesmer, who was obsessed with Football, joined Hounslow Harriers and found himself on the field while struggling with the family, cultural and social expectations about what Punjabi British daughter should be. It was a big box office hit and the only film distributed in every country of the world, including North Korea.
US Women’s National Team Director Emma Hayes also confirmed that the new project cooperates Chadha, “For me, the original film, the girls to remove and do and say that you can do and do,” he said. “This message is still relevant today. Although women’s football is very high all over the world, it is great that this amazing and original film is a part of this heritage, I feel that there is more I can do, and that’s what I write. Of course, will it be incredibly joy, will it be like?”
“When I first met him, ‘I was on my God, I was Keira Knightley, I was me!’ When I am currently working on, I know all the magnificent things he did both in front and back for women’s football, so I brought him to the ship. ”
Before moving to international football, Hayes won the Seven League championships, two league cups and five league cups and five FA Cups. Im I won the Olympic Gold two months after taking his duty: “I met Gurinder. I’m watching the movie because I felt like Jess and Jules. “
Hayes moved to the United States in his career in search of greater opportunities and professionalism in the women’s play and played a very important role in its development. Hayes, “There was no hope for women’s football in England, so I was going to the United States to try my chances there,” he said. “I could never imagine how much this film helps to change the women’s game.
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Culture, Media and Sports State Secretary Lisa Nandy, who will participate in the EURO 2025 final with Chadha, described the announcement as “a bright moment for the British film”.
“Beckham has caught something very special about our British, our soul, diversity and the ability to dream in the face of the challenge,” he said. “Gurinder Chadha gave us a story that was echoed far beyond the screen and became a part of our cultural DNA.
“The announcement of the follow -up is a brilliant moment for the British film. The British storytelling is based on an inheritance that continues to inspire what it can do and continues to show. Such productions help to explain our national story, reminds us who we are and who we can be.”
