WhileHamilton - mania continues to sweep Broadway , the hit show ’s Maker , Lin - Manuel Miranda , is already look ahead to his next big projection : a star role in the subsequence toMary Poppins .
Rumblings of Emily Blunt pace into the role of the darling English nanny first start earlier this year , whenVarietyreportedthat the actress was “ in dialogue ” to re - team with herInto the Woodsdirector Rob Marshall and producer John DeLuca and Marc Platt to quicken the character more than 50 twelvemonth after Julie Andrews first bestow her to the big cover in a stunningly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious fashion . One month later , the outlet reported that producers were pursuing Miranda — now aPulitzer Prize - winning dramatist — for the role of Jack , a lamplighter who will fundamentally toy the “ Bert ” to Blunt ’s Mary . Now , Disney has confirmedthe projection .
TitledMary Poppins Returns , the moving-picture show will be scripted by two - time Oscar candidate David Magee ( Life of Pi , Finding Neverland ) and pull material from the remaining seven Word of God in P.L. Travers’sMary Poppinsseries . Unlike the rest of the world , Travers was n’t a rooter of the original 1964 film ; at the film ’s premiere , shereportedlyspent most of the even crying about what she see on the screen and refuse to let Disney adapt any more titles in the series . But the studio ’s ready to give it another go , and has already assembled an telling mold and crew .
According to a printing press releasefrom Disney :
“ I am truly humbled and abide by to be asked by Disney to bring P.L. Travers ’s further risky venture to the screen,”Marshall enounce . “ The iconic original flick entail so much to me in person , and I look forward to creating an original movie melodious that can bring Mary Poppins , and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most intriguing of times , to a whole new generation . "
sound like somethin' is brewin ' and ‘bout to start .
[ h / tVariety ]
