Disney has decided to revive
one of their most beloved and iconic characters with a movie fifty-one years
after the first film opened in theaters. Rob Marshall (Into the Woods, Chicago)
is on board to direct the new live-action Mary Poppins musical from a script
written by David Magee (Life of Pi), which takes place 20 years after the original
film, in Depression-era London.
While the 1964 film starring Julie
Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, and David Tomlinson was based on P.L. Travers' first of
eight Mary Poppins books, the new film will draw inspiration from the rest of
the series, and further develop the adventures shared between the Banks family
and the magical nanny.
Marc Shaiman and Scott
Wittman, the musical duo behind Hairspray and Smash are set to compose the original
songs and score for the new movie, which is "decidedly not being developed
as a sequel", though if it is set 20 years after the events of the first
film, it's a sequel.
Both Disney and Marshall are
working with the Travers estate and Richard Sherman, who co-composed the original
film's iconic songs together with his late brother Robert.
With Disney mining all of
their past animated hits and turning them into live-action films, does it come
as a total surprise that Mary Poppins would be next? The main question now is
who has the courage to step in and try to fill the gigantic shoes left by
Julie Andrews?
Source - EW
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