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

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.

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