Gurinder Chadha is making an independent Christmas movie about India’s Ebenezer Scrooge set in London and financed by Zygi Kamasa’s new British distributor, True Brit.
That Bend like Beckham The director revealed the news in the last hour while giving evidence to the High End British Film and Television investigation, which begins today.
Chadha said the film is “funny, British and very close to Dickens’ original theme”, telling the story of an Indian Scrooge who votes for the Conservative Party.
He said the funding was provided by UK tax credits and Kamasa’s True Brit, which Deadline reported launched late last year with support from Three Six Zero. The first production stars Danny Dyer. Marching dust.
“A real struggle to achieve it”
Although Chadha said her Christmas movie “was a success” thanks to a combination of tax credits and True Brit, she added that “it was a real struggle for me to get it off the ground, partly because the main character is Indian.”
When asked by committee member John Nicolson whether this fight for funding constituted “overt racism,” Chadha said, “There is a perception that people don’t want to see movies that don’t reflect them culturally.”
“In the end it will be easier to have a white cast than one of color to make a film,” he added.
“Talk to any POC filmmaker and they will tell you. If you have Idris Elba or John Boyega then you can do it and they have worked very hard to get where they are, but if I had to take the new kid out of film school [from an ethnic minority background] And trying to get them to lead, it’s going to be difficult. That is my experience with the film I am making now.”
“I always experience this in the films I make, but I always get stuck in my stance,” he continued. “It’s very sad for me now that I received the rejection. [financiers and distributors] Who should know better?
Chadha had been trying to make the untitled film for three years, she said, but was initially told that Apple TV+ was making a similar film starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, who became Enthusiastic and launched in 2022.
“He came and he left; not many people saw it and it could have been better,” Chadha said. “I had to wait for it to happen and then people were like ‘oh yeah, that didn’t go well.’ But since it didn’t work with two stars, there was a perception that mine wouldn’t work.”
Chadha, who is also working on a Disney princess film with an Indian lead alongside a Bend like Beckham the sequel, citing the previous photo, in 2019 Dazzled by the light, as an example of a culturally specific film that performed well commercially and critically.
A film about a British-Pakistani journalist from Luton who loves Bruce Springsteen “should have been easier to make,” Chadha said.
In the end, the film cost 6.5 million pounds ($8.3 million) and sold for $17 million in a bidding war at Sundance, he added.
2024-01-23 11:06:10
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