Mary Poppins Returns: First Look

We don’t have much in the way of glimpses at Mary Poppins returns just yet, but from what we do have it looks like Emily Blunt has found her calling as she steps in to the shoes of history’s most magical nanny. Alongside the not even slightly overrated Meryl Streep, Blunt heads a cast of pure talent, featuring Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Dick Van Dyke, and Angela Lansbury (told you, talent.)

Set in 1930s London, the sequel draws on all seven of the books that followed the original Mary Poppins. Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks children, now adults themselves, to help them rediscover the wondrous-ness of life.

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If you’ve been following the production closely you’ll notice I’m missing someone. My editor told me I couldn’t turn this announcement into a gushing love letter, but I’ll be damned if he’s not getting his own paragraph.

World-renowned songwriter, actor and freestyle-extraordinaire – and winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, which proves definitively that he is a literal genius – Lin-Manuel Miranda (yes the guy who wrote 9 time Tony winner Hamilton, based on a book he picked up on holiday, injecting new live into this generation’s love of both musical theatre and hip hop), joins the cast as an optimistic street lamplighter named Jack. His sneaky tweets reveal that he will be donning an English accent a la Van Dyke in the original, and pretty much everything he touches turns to solid gold so we should all be excited, okay?

The film is due to arrive in cinemas on Christmas Day 2018 – and crews have been spotted out and about in the square mile getting the on-location scenes.

Ps. Lin-Manuel Miranda is the best.

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