Gurinder Chadha, director of last year's indie hit "Bend It Like Beckham," is attached to helm "Nine Wives," a romantic comedy at New Line Cinema that Neal Moritz is producing with Michael Pierce, Mark Williams and Tania Landau. "Wives" is about a commitment-phobic guy who breaks up with his longtime girlfriend and begins to wake up every morning with a different wife. It marks the third project the director has attached herself to since her indie soccer film hit the big time, scoring $32.5 million at the domestic boxoffice. She is developing "I Dream of Jeannie" at Columbia as well as "Tucker Ames" at Fox 2000. The original draft for "Wives" was written by Scott Fifer. The project is now out to writers for a rewrite, and Chadha will work with them to develop the project. Stokely Chaffin, George Waud and Jeff Katz are overseeing the project at the studio. The ICM-repped Chadha is completing "Bride and Prejudice," a Bollywood musical version of "Pride and Prejudice," for Pathe U.K. and Miramax Films.