The filmmaker adds of Knightley, "It's hard to carry a movie if you're in every single scene. In most films, the lead ...

Chadha, who co-wrote and directed the 2002 original, is hopeful that stars Archie Panjabi and Keira Knightley would return for roles in the new movie.

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