The Disney franchise is about to go the desi route. Bride and Prejudice director Gurinder Chadha and screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges are all set to helm an unique musical characteristic, which can reportedly be a couple of ‘dynamic princess’ from Indian history. (Also read: Robert Pattinson, girlfriend Suki Waterhouse walk the red carpet together for first time. See pics)
Gurinder Chadha is a two-time BAFTA nominee for her work on Bend It Like Beckham and for her debut film Bhaji on the Beach. Gurinder Chadha’s next film, What’s Cooking, served because the Opening Night movie for the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was additionally the primary British script to be taken into the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Lab.
No additional particulars about Gurinder’s Disney musical have been revealed but though Deadline studies that the undertaking could be headed by the President of the Walt Disney Motion Picture Production, Sean Bailey. Producer Lindy Goldstein, who made ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’ can be set to affix the manufacturing crew by means of her Lindy Goldstein Production banner.
At the time of its launch, Bend It Like Beckham, that starred Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley in pivotal roles, went on to change into the highest-grossing British-financed and distributed movie ever on the UK field workplace. In addition to a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film, Bend It Like Beckham additionally acquired a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and a Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Her manufacturing firm Bend It Films have grossed in extra of $300 million USD on the field workplace. In 2015, each Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges debuted the stage musical model of Bend It Like Beckham in London’s West End to nice acclaim. Her most up-to-date movie, Blinded By The Light, that revolved round Javed, a 16 yr outdated Pakistani boy rising up in Margaret Thatcher’s England in 1987, was acquired at a whopping deal of $15 million on the Sundance Film Festival.
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