US EditionBend It Like Beckham Sequel Plan Confirmed More than 20 Years After Release - Liverpool Echo
- Gurinder Chadha teased the Bend It Like Beckham sequel in Basel, Switzerland, aiming for a 2027 release to mark the film's 20th anniversary and the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
- The original film Bend It Like Beckham grossed $76.7 million, inspired a generation of girls, and its timing aligns with the Euro 2025 final on Sunday.
- Currently, Gurinder Chadha, director, is developing a compelling script, and Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra are aware of the sequel but await a script before committing.
- With political backing, while @rasalistair on X wrote `MY CHILDHOOD!` calling for the original cast to return.
- Chadha envisions the 2027 release as either a film or television series, aiming to mark the 20th anniversary and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil, Gurinder Chadha, EXCLUSIVE TO THIS BULLET.
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'Bend It Like Beckham' director says sequel is in the works, more than 20 years after first film hit screens
The director of Bend It Like Beckham has said that, two decades after the film first hit screens, a sequel is in the works. READ MORE: The best football songs – ever! The 2002 film, starring Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra, told the story of a Punjabi British teenage girl who defies her parents’ wishes to play football and is widely credited with inspiring a generation of young women to take up the sport. Speaking in Basel yesterday, on the…
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