Director Gurinder Chadha and her husband, Paul Mayeda Berges, with whom she cowrote the original, are working on the script.

There’s no word yet on whether or not original cast members like Nagra, Knightley, Archie Panjabi, and Juliet Stevenson will return for the Bend It Like Beckham sequel, but Chadha is optimistic. “I’m pretty certain that everyone’s going to want to come back,” she told Deadline.

The film starred Parminder Nagra as Jess and Keira Knightley as Jules, two women with a passion for soccer who end up on a team and strike up a friendship. The film sees Jules fall for a coach while Jess sneaks around playing the game against her parents' wishes.