Get Your First Look at MARY POPPINS RETURNS

Disney has just revealed a stunning picture of Emily Blunt in MARY POPPINS RETURNS!

These days, live-action fairytale remakes are everywhere. But Disney’s new movie Mary Poppins Returns is a sequel, with the title character played by Emily Blunt. In a new image released by Disney, we get our first look at Blunt as Mary Poppins. She dons a ruffled coat, a hat complete with a bird, and Mary Poppins’ famous carpet bag. It looks from the photo that Mary is back on Cherry Tree Lane, the street where she first met the Banks family 20 years before.

Mary Poppins Returns picks up two-and-change decades after the events of the 1964 film, furthering the adventures of Mary Poppins and the Banks children, Jane and Michael, who have long since grown up (they’re played in the film by Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw) but are no less in need of their former minder. The new tale, as penned by screenwriter David Magee, is set in Depression-era London and finds Mary Poppins returning to help the family rediscover joy after Michael suffers a personal loss.

The film pulls from stories within the other seven books of P.L. Travers’ original children’s series. As the Banks children grew, so did their travels with Mary Poppins, who popped in and out of their lives throughout the additional novels along with several other ephemeral characters that will now finally find their way onscreen (like recently-announced Angela Lansbury, who plays a maniacal balloon vendor).

Mary Poppins Returns will also feature Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda who will play Jack, a musical lamplighter, Meryl Streep as Mary’s cousin, Colin Firth as banker William Weatherall Wilkins, and original Mary Poppins star, Dick Van Dyke, who will make an appearance in the sequel. The film will be directed by Into the Woods director Rob Marshall, with new music composed by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

Mary Poppins was one of my favourite movies growing up, and I cannot wait to see what will come next for the character when Mary Poppins Returns hits theatres on December 25, 2018.

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