Bend it like Beckham to be turned into West End musical
Keira Knightley in Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham, the film which made a star of Keira Knightley, is to be turned into a West End musical.
“The script is ready to go,” the director Gurinder Chadha tells Mandrake at the London premiere of The Help. “It’s going to be on both the West End and Broadway. We are currently deciding who is the right person to write the score, so it’s at a really exciting stage.”
Sadly, the show, which will be produced by Sonia Friedman, will not see Knightley make her musical debut. “There are no plans for Keira to reprise the role, lovely though it sounds,” says her spokesman.
The actress took singing lessons after Sir Cameron Mackintosh approached her about playing Eliza Doolittle in his planned film remake of My Fair Lady. The role, however, went to Carey Mulligan.