New Mary Poppins Musical Coming

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From Entertainment Weekly...

 

 

Exclusive: Disney developing new original musical featuring Mary Poppins; Rob Marshall to direct

by Marc Snetiker • @MarcSnetiker

 

 

Posted September 14 2015 — 3:01 PM EDT

 

One of the world’s most cherished characters is about to take flight once more.

 

EW has learned that Disney is developing a new original live-action musical film featuring the beloved magical nanny, Mary Poppins. The studio is bringing back Into the Woods director Rob Marshall and producers John DeLuca and Marc Platt, who successfully shepherded Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway tuner to the big screen for Disney last year.

 

The new Poppins film will take place in Depression-era London, some 20 years after Disney’s classic Mary Poppins, and will draw from existing Poppins tales in the rest of author P.L. Travers’ 1934-1988 children’s book series. The practically perfect 1964 screen adaptation starring Julie Andrews pulled its story primarily from the first installment in Travers’ eight-book series; the new project (which is decidedly not being developed as a sequel) will explore Mary’s further adventures with the Banks family and beyond as illustrated by Travers’ seven additional novels.

 

With Marshall helming, songwriting duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Smash) are on board to compose original songs and a new score; David Magee (Finding Neverland, Life of Pi) is attached to write the screenplay. 

 

Disney and Marshall are collaborating with the Travers estate and have already earned support from Poppins’ co-composer Richard Sherman, who penned the original film’s famous songs like “Chim Chim Cher-ee” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” with his late brother, Robert.

 

Marshall, DeLuca, and Platt remain some of Hollywood’s most active musical players. Marshall’s 2002 Oscar-winning Best Picture, Chicago, is largely credited with ushering in a modern resurgence of the genre; he and DeLuca also collaborated on 2009’s Nine before taking on Into the Woods in 2014. Platt is presently producing Fox’s Grease: Live and another original musical, La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. As a key producer of Broadway’s Wicked, he has also long been involved in developing a feature film adaptation of the show.

 

The world of Mary Poppins was most recently revived onscreen with 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks, which told the story of Travers’ meetings with Walt Disney in the early ’60s as he persuaded her to put Poppins to film.

 

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/disney-mary-poppins-rob-marshall

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Crazy talk.

 

TCD

[parrothead7368 aka Norm 101]

I thought Travers had in her will that Disney wouldn't be allowed to do any more movies on MP. That was one of the reasons that the Broadway play is based off the book and not the movie.

Best Regards,

Norm

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Crazy talk.

 

TCD

 

That was my first reaction too.

[Beckers 1,136]

No, no, no. Don't mess with Julie Andrews. No. No. No

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Did I mention no?

[Katman1356...Jason 1,140]

Wont really be a remake. And they arent saying sequel. New story based on the following books and all new music so I am not sure what to call this. I will with hold judgement till I see what they come up with. 

[Cortezcapt (Derek) 156]

Mary Poppins is my favorite Disney movie, I think I wore the tape out as a kid. But I'm not sure how I feel about this. Could go either way. I'm just glad they aren't trying to do a remake of the original.

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

Wont really be a remake. And they arent saying sequel. New story based on the following books and all new music so I am not sure what to call this.

 

Good point.  I tweaked the thread title so it was more accurate.  :)

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Emily Blunt in Talks to Star in Disney's 'Mary Poppins' Sequel

2:46 PM PST 2/18/2016 by Borys Kit

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Emily Blunt; Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins

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Rob Marshall is directing the film, which will be set 20 years after events in the 1964 title.

 

Emily Blunt is in talks to play Mary Poppins in Disney’s sequel to its 1964 classic.

Rob Marshall is directing the new untitled movie, which will be set some 20 years after the tale in the first film that starred Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke. It will also take its cues from the book series that P.L. Travers wrote. (The original Mary Poppins pic was based largely on the first book, published in 1934; the last book in the series was released in 1988.)

Blunt’s name surfaced almost immediately as a top contender for the role when news of the project broke last September, but it's only now that talks are underway in earnest.

Marshall is producing with Marc Platt and John DeLuca. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman will be composing original songs and an all-new score. David Magee is attached to write the screenplay.

Drawing from the wealth of material in Travers’ additional seven novels, Disney and Marshall are developing a brand-new live-action musical.

The story is set in Depression-era London and revolves around a now-grown Michael Banks, who has children of his own. In tough times, big sister Jane returns and soon after, their beloved Mary Poppins comes back to help.

Blunt next stars with Chris Hemsworth in Universal's The Huntsman: The Winter's War, which is set to open April 22.

 

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emily-blunt-talks-star-disneys-867435?facebook_20160221