If there’s one thing that bears incredible relevance in the year 2017, its the idea of a magical flying nanny solving the problems of a family in London. That’s a basic plot that bears the test of time. So much so that they’ve made a sequel to a film that came out in 1964.
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Serving you some fresh first looks of Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda & the dancing cast of Mary Poppins Returns https://t.co/OhQvlENCaD pic.twitter.com/t5ALEpWw2f
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Mary Poppins Returns, directed by Rob Marshall (Into the Woods), picks up 25 years after the events of the first film, fast-forwarding to London’s mid-1930s economic slump, the actual time period of Travers’ books. Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane has become the warm, loving home that banker and artist Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) shares with his wife and three children. But after the sudden death of Michael’s wife, the Banks family is shattered — even enthusiastic aunt Jane (Emily Mortimer), now a fervent union organizer, and long-time housemaid Ellen (Julie Walters) can’t help lift spirits — and so in time, the once-blossoming home is on the verge of foreclosure.Cue the arrival of prim and peculiar Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt), who leads Michael’s wayward children (and Jane and Michael themselves) on a series of unbelievable adventures — to the top of Big Ben, the bottom of the ocean, into magical encounters with animated dancing penguins and upside-down cousins.