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MARY POPPINS RETURNS

Is Meryl Streep ready for a spoonful of sugar?
Sources tell Variety, the Oscar-winning actress is in talks to join Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel-Miranda in Disneys Mary Poppins Returns.
If a deal closes, the family film would reunite Streep with the Into the Woods musical team of Blunt, director Rob Marshall, and producer Marc Platt.
Streep is said to play the role of Poppins cousin, Topsy, a supporting role that wasnt included in the original film. Streep would also sing for the part, much like she did in Into the Woods, which earned her a record 19th Oscar nomination.
Emily Mortimer has signed on to join Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Disneys Mary Poppins Returns.
Mortimer will play Jane Banks, who along with her brother Michael (who will be played by Ben Whishaw in the pic), was one of the children the magical titular nanny looked after in the original 1964 film, and is now all-grown-up in this installment. The movie is set 25 years after the original.
The movie also stars Meryl Streep as a cousin of Poppins. Blunt will be playing the title character, with Hamilton star Miranda playing a street lamplighter named Jack.
Colin Firth is in negotiations to join Disney's sequel Mary Poppins Returns.
The musical stars Emily Blunt as the magical nanny opposite Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the Broadway hit musical Hamilton. The story is set 25 years after the events of the first Mary Poppins movie. It centers on the now-grown children from the 1964 original, Michael and Jane Banks, who experience a personal loss that results in the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins (Blunt), who teams up with her lamplighter friend Jack (Miranda) to help the family.
Rob Marshall is directing Mary Poppins Returns from an adapted script by David Magee as well as producing alongside Marc Platt and John DeLuca. Marc Shaiman is composing an all-new score; he and Scott Wittman are collaborating in writing the original songs.
Firth will play William Weatherall Wilkins, president of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank.
Disney has set the sequel for release on Dec. 25, 2018, more than five decades after the classic film first played in theaters.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/796913-dick-van-dyke-joins-the-mary-poppins-returns-cast
Dick Van Dyke is returning to reprise his role.