Mary Poppins Returns debuts in theaters on December 19, 2018. Images: Disney Amy Ratcliffe is the Managing Editor for Nerdist and the author of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy (available from Amazon).

“It turns out I am not,” says Emily Blunt, star of Mary Poppins Returns, Disney’s $130 million, 54-years-in-the-making sequel to the 1964 classic that opens Dec. 19.

Southbury Library will host a free Aug. 29 Zoom talk on Disney’s Mary Poppins, led by entertainment historian John Kenrick.

This, especially, because there was an animated sequence. There were children, dancers, singing, visual effects, big set pieces. It was crazy.” Mary Poppins Returns opens in theaters Dec. 19.

It’s a most remarkable home with a suitably remarkable address: 17 Cherry Tree Lane – the fictional house that Mary Poppins visits during a new stage adaptation of P.L. Travers’ classic story.

Oh great. Turns out the creator of Mary Poppins is a tightly wound, lonely, bitter fussbudget. And judging by some of her actions in L.A., she's borderline NUTS.

Not to disparage either, but Travers' Mary Poppins was no Julie Andrews. She was an implacable termagant armed with a much tougher brand of love than Disney was prepared for.

Also difficult, added Blunt: “Paying homage without replicating.” Making the world of “Mary Poppins” both familiar and fresh to 2018 audiences began with connecting its threads to the ...

He had produced a 2002 TV documentary titled The Shadow of Mary Poppins and commissioned Sue Smith to write a screenplay, which he brought to Owen in hope of setting up a U.K.-Australia co-production.