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   Yet again, the talentless fools in Hollyweird lazily resurrect another   
   oldie idea, rather than do anything actually creative and new.  :-\   
      
      
       Bend It Like Beckham sequel in the works, director tells BBC   
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       Bend It Like Beckham is set for a sequel more than 20 years after   
       its release, its director has confirmed to the BBC.   
      
       Gurinder Chadha teased the revival in Basel on Saturday, where   
       England's Lionesses are preparing to face world champions Spain   
       in Sunday's Euro 2025 final.   
      
       The 2002 film, which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra,   
       is credited with inspiring a generation of women to take up   
       football.   
      
       "We've been part of changing the game for women, so it felt like   
       this was a good time for me to go back and investigate the   
       characters," she said.   
      
       Chadha has earmarked 2027 for the next instalment, to mark both   
       the film's 25th anniversary and the Fifa Women's World Cup in   
       Brazil.   
      
       She said she was still unsure what form the sequel might take,   
       but suggested it could either be another film or a television   
       series.   
      
       The director told the BBC she had been asked almost twice a   
       week since the original film was released to come up with a   
       sequel.   
      
       "A lot has changed since the original movie, but I think that   
       people still don't think that women should play football," she   
       said.   
      
       "There are people who still don't take it seriously, although   
       the Lionesses are riding high."   
      
       "I've left it a while, but I thought: look at the Euros, look at   
       the Lionesses."   
      
       Chadha said she hoped not only to reunite the original cast, but   
       that members of the current England squad would be "queuing up"   
       to take on cameo roles.   
      
       Grossing almost £60m on a budget of £3.5m, Bend It Like Beckham   
       was a surprise hit that told the story of a young British-Indian   
       girl with a passion for football.   
      
       Chadha told the BBC that she had not expected the original to be   
       so successful.   
      
       Her intention, she said, had been to "uplift girls, girls who grew   
       up like me, who were always being told how to dress, how to look,   
       what to say, what not to say".   
      
       "What I did was say you can do what you want, and you can have it   
       all, and I think that's a really great message to put out again.   
       I think there's still stuff to say, and stuff to challenge."   
      
      
          
      
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