ALso interesting.. I looked this up on Wikepedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)[edit]
Main article:
Mary Poppins Returns
On 14 September 2015,
Disney announced a new
Mary Poppins film was to be made, with a new plot and new songs, though in P.L. Travers' final will, another movie version was not to be made according to her wishes. The film is directed by
Rob Marshall and written by David Magee. Songs are composed by
Marc Shaiman and
Scott Wittman, who both received support from
Richard Sherman, who, along with his late brother-collaborator
Robert Sherman wrote the iconic song score of the original
Mary Poppins film. Though the film is not a reboot or remake of the original 1964 film, Mary Poppins revisits the Banks children from the first film. It is loosely based on the other seven
Mary Poppins books by Travers, and expands beyond them.
Emily Blunt stars as Mary Poppins,
[12] alongside
Lin-Manuel Miranda in the role of Jack,
[13] a similar character to Dick Van Dyke's Bert from the first film.
[14] It was announced on 31 May 2016 that the film is titled
Mary Poppins Returns and takes place in Depression-era London, 20 years after the original film.
[15] Emily Mortimer and
Ben Whishaw play grown up Jane and Michael Banks.
[16] The release date is 21 December 2018 in the US and the UK.
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