Gurinder Chadha is ready to make one other empowering female-centric story — and make historical past. The “Bend It Like Beckham” helmer has been tapped to provide and helm an authentic musical characteristic for Disney that’s “impressed by a dynamic princess from Indian historical past,” per Deadline. This can mark the primary time a Disney movie has centered on an Indian princess.
To this point, the plot is underneath wraps. Chadha is penning the script with frequent collaborator Paul Mayeda Berges.
Greatest recognized for “Bend It Like Beckham,” her 2002 smash hit a few British-Indian teenage woman who goals of taking part in soccer, Chadha’s different credit embody “Blinded by the Mild,” “Viceroy’s Home,” and “Angus, Thongs and Excellent Snogging.”
Disney’s live-action tackle “The Little Mermaid” hits theaters Could 26. Halle Bailey (“Grown-ish”) performs the titular function within the undersea epic.
Supply: Women And Hollywood