On July 26, Deadline reported that “Bend it Like Beckham” shall 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 funds.
The comedy ended up being the harbinger of Knightley’s astronomical rise into stardom — coming only one yr earlier than “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” and “Love Really.” In it, she is certainly one of two soccer taking part in women (the opposite performed by Nagra), who try to pursue the game professionally (and it’s known 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 recreation,” Chadha mentioned, 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 growth.
Knightley informed Jimmy Fallon in 2023 that she didn’t anticipate that the movie can be any form of hit. In reality, as a result of folks informed her the title was “embarrassing,” she reassured herself that nobody would see it. “It was the concept of it as a result of, you recognize, girls’s soccer was not as huge again then,” she defined. “And so the concept of the entire thing was form of ridiculous.”
The precise Beckhams, in fact, 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 yr. 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 mentioned 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 large credit score to (director Fisher Stevens,” Harte mentioned. “That scene is, if something, a illustration of how good he was at getting folks to chill out in entrance of the digicam. And in addition Tim Cragg, our cinematographer, who had the knowledge to maintain the digicam going forwards and backwards. The person who deserves the least quantity of credit score is me, as a result of it’s in all probability the least quantity of modifying in the entire collection!”
A extra Victoria-centric doc is ready to launch quickly, additionally from Netflix, of which David mentioned, “It took a minute to try to get her to agree with it… It wasn’t one thing that was simple. I feel I’m the one one who may persuade her and I did, ultimately.” However he added that viewers would see her “in a pleasant mild.” The collection will cowl Victoria’s complete profession. “I feel it’s going to be actually particular. It’s so emotional, there’s drama — and the drama’s actual,” David mentioned.