Colin Firth In Talks To Join Emily Blunt In Mary Poppins Sequel

Academy Award winning actor Colin Firth has entered negotiations to join Emily Blunt in Disney's upcoming Mary Poppins Returns.

Set 25 years after the original story, the sequel will see the magical nanny reuniting with the all grown up Jane and Michael Banks.

Should he sign on to the project, Firth will play the president of the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, William Weatherall Wilkins.

Rob Marshall ("Into the Woods") will direct the film from a script by Academy Award nominee David Magee ("Life of Pi") based on P.L. Travers' The Mary Poppins Stories.

Opening in theaters on December 25, 2018, Mary Poppins Returns also stars Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer as Michael and Jane, Lin-Manuel Miranda as a street lamplighter named Jack, and Meryl Streep as Poppins' cousin.

Source - Variety

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