Mary Poppins Returns: New trailer shows Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda singing and dancing
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Your support makes all the difference.Disney has released the second official trailer for Mary Poppins Returns, and the clip filled to the brim with singing, dancing and cleaning.
Emily Blunt leads the star-studded cast, taking on the iconic role once played by Julie Andrews. Other confirmed cast members include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep and Angela Lansbury.
Dick Van Dyke, who played Bert in the original movie, will play a new character: Mr Dawes Jr, the retired chairman of a bank that’s now run by Firth’s character William Weatherall Wilkins.
The film brings the story forward to the era of the Great Depression, with a now grown-up Jane (Mortimer) and Michael (Wishaw) Banks living in their old house.
After a tragedy leaves Michael’s three children without a mother, the Banks’ former nanny makes a return visit, with the help of lamplighter Jack (Miranda).
Directed and produced by Rob Marshall, the film is based on a screenplay by David Magee, with new songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and an original score by Shaiman.
Mary Poppins Returns is released to UK cinemas 21 December 2018
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