Walt Disney Pictures have officially announced that Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are set to star in their Mary Poppins sequel and have also dated the pic for December 25, 2018.
Variety first reported that both Blunt and Miranda were in talks and the studio has now confirmed their involvement.
Reuniting the director and producing team behind Disney’s hit film musical “Into the Woods,” the film will be directed by Rob Marshall and produced by Marshall, John DeLuca and Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marc Platt.
The screenplay will be written by David Magee based on The Mary Poppins Stories by P.L. Travers, with Oscar nominee and Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman composing an all-new score and Shaiman and Emmy nominee and Tony Award winner Scott Wittman writing original songs.
Blunt has been cast as Mary Poppins and Miranda will play a new character, a street lamplighter named Jack.
Variety first reported that both Blunt and Miranda were in talks and the studio has now confirmed their involvement.
Reuniting the director and producing team behind Disney’s hit film musical “Into the Woods,” the film will be directed by Rob Marshall and produced by Marshall, John DeLuca and Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marc Platt.
The screenplay will be written by David Magee based on The Mary Poppins Stories by P.L. Travers, with Oscar nominee and Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman composing an all-new score and Shaiman and Emmy nominee and Tony Award winner Scott Wittman writing original songs.
Blunt has been cast as Mary Poppins and Miranda will play a new character, a street lamplighter named Jack.
- 5/31/2016
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety - Film News
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