Walt Disney Studios are all set to bring a new Mary Poppins movie to the big screen.
Not content with bringing a whole bunch of their animated movies to the screens in live-action form (Cinderella, the upcoming The Jungle Book, Maleficent etc), Disney are now looking to bring a new Mary Poppins film to screens. The new movie will be set 20 years after the original film, which starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, and will directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago).
David Magee, who wrote the Academy Award winning Life Of Pi, and Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, will pen the screenplay for the new movie, which will use ideas from the PL Travers novels, the last of which was published in 1988.
This is quite excellent news in my mind – a new Mary Poppins movie! I’m in, especially following the quite brilliant Saving Mr. Banks from a few years back, which really sparked new interest in the source material.
More news as we get it.
