Bend It Like Beckham Director Teases Possible Sequel

More than 20 years later, a British football success story has the filmmaker mulling a follow-up

Following a historic run by England's women's football team over the summer, Bend it Like Beckham filmmaker Gurinder Chadha says that she is working on a follow-up to the 2002 hit, which earned more than twenty times its budget back and helped make Keira Knightley a household name. The Lionesses made it to the World Cup final in August for the first time, and while they lost out to Spain in the end, the success created a wave of enthusiasm for women's and girls' football.

"I never really wanted to make a sequel to the film, because I just thought the way Parminder and Keira played it, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Archie Panjabi, I could never really follow that up and create that same magic in the same way," Chadha told UK's Metro. "But with the recent success of football, I just feel like I'm starting to percolate an idea for a possible sequel of some kind.

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