Based on stories by P.L.
Travers, production is officially underway in London on Mary Poppins Returns,
the follow-up to the 1964 musical classic starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van
Dyke.
The new film, which
is also being financed by Disney, boasts a script penned by Life of Pi scribe
David Magee, and Chicago and Into the Wood filmmaker Rob Marshall sitting
behind the camera.
In the story, Poppins
(Emily Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family after an all-grown up
Michael played by Ben Whishaw, suffers a personal loss.
In addition to Blunt
and Whishaw, the cast of Mary Poppins Returns also includes Emily Mortimer as Jane
Banks; Lin-Manuel Miranda as an optimistic street lamplighter named Jack; Meryl
Streep as Topsy, Mary Poppins' eccentric cousin; Julie Walters as a housekeeper
named Ellen; Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes Jr., the chairman of the Fidelity
Fiduciary Bank, which is run by Colin Firth's character William Weatherall Wilkins.
"Mary Poppins
Returns is set in 1930s depression-era London (the time period of the original
novels) and is drawn from the wealth of material in PL Travers’ additional
seven books. In the story, Michael (Whishaw) and Jane (Mortimer) are now grown
up, with Michael, his three children and their housekeeper, Ellen (Walters),
living on Cherry Tree Lane. After Michael suffers a personal loss, the
enigmatic nanny Mary Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family,
and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack (Miranda), uses her
unique magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing
in their lives. Mary Poppins also introduces the children to a new assortment
of colorful and whimsical characters, including her eccentric cousin, Topsy
(Streep)."
Mary Poppins Returns
opens in theaters on December 25, 2018.
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