On July 26, Deadline reported that “Bend it Like Beckham” might be bending it like Beckham as soon as once more, or so says its author/director Gurinder Chadha. The unique movie, launched 23 years in the past in 2022 and starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley was an indie sleeper hit, grossing $76 million on a $6 million finances.
The comedy ended up being the harbinger of Knightley’s astronomical rise into stardom — coming only one 12 months earlier than “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” and “Love Truly.” In it, she is one in every of two soccer enjoying ladies (the opposite performed by Nagra), who try to pursue the game professionally (and it’s referred to as soccer there, clearly).
“I’m excited to revisit the unique characters and revive the enduring story and construct on the legacy we helped to create for the ladies’s sport,” Chadha stated, including that “I’m fairly sure that everybody’s going to need to come again” and that the unique forged was conscious the film was in improvement.
Knightley advised Jimmy Fallon in 2023 that she didn’t anticipate that the movie can be any sort of hit. Actually, as a result of folks advised her the title was “embarrassing,” she reassured herself that nobody would see it. “It was the concept of it as a result of, you already know, girls’s soccer was not as massive again then,” she defined. “And so the concept of the entire thing was kind of ridiculous.”
The precise Beckhams, after all, are ever-present within the cultural dialog. The couple — David and Victoria — made a cameo within the authentic movie, named in Beckham’s honor. David was additionally the topic of the Netflix’s “Beckham,” which ended up successful the Emmy for Excellent Documentary Sequence final 12 months. The present adopted the each his and Victoria’s private {and professional} lives, and its most well-known scene turned a meme-of-the-moment.
Within the first episode (of 4), Victoria stated that each she and David got here from working class households, to which David pushed Victoria to confess that her father drove her to high school in a Rolls Royce. In 2024, editor Michael Harte mentioned this scene with IndieWire. “You gotta give huge credit score to [director Fisher Stevens,” Harte said. “That scene is, if anything, a representation of how good he was at getting people to relax in front of the camera. And also Tim Cragg, our cinematographer, who had the wisdom to keep the camera going back and forth. The person that deserves the least amount of credit is me, because it’s probably the least amount of editing in the whole series!”
A more Victoria-centric doc is set to release soon, also from Netflix, of which David said, “It took a minute to try and get her to agree with it… It wasn’t something that was easy. I think I’m the only one who could convince her and I did, eventually.” But he added that viewers would see her “in a delightful light.” The series will cover Victoria’s entire career. “I think it’s going to be really special. It’s so emotional, there’s drama — and the drama’s real,” David said.