{"id":89781,"date":"2016-07-29T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=89781"},"modified":"2016-08-16T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T09:49:13","slug":"mary-poppins-sequel-might-have-gained-a-meryl-streep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/mary-poppins-sequel-might-have-gained-a-meryl-streep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Poppins sequel might have gained a Meryl Streep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/news\/meryl-streep-joins-emily-blunt-in-mary-poppins-sequel-exclusive-1201825001\/\">Variety<\/a>, Meryl Streep is close to boarding\u00a0<em><strong>Mary Poppins\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>sequel\u00a0<em><strong>Mary Poppins Returns<\/strong><\/em>. If the deal closes, the Academy Award-winning actress will be in a supporting role as Poppins&#8217; cousin Topsy.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be joining the already-cast Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins herself, as well as Lin-Manuel Miranda as a street lamplighter named Jack. This will be the third time Streep and Blunt have worked together, after\u00a0<em><strong>The Devil Wears Prada\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and 2014&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Into The Woods<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This will also be the second time both Streep and Blunt have worked with director Rob Marshall\u00a0(<em><strong>Into The Woods<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Chicago<\/strong><\/em>) and producers Marc Platt and John DeLuca. Much like the Bankses after their kite-flying days, it&#8217;s just one big happy family.<\/p>\n<p>The film will probably give Streep another opportunity for an almost obligatory Oscar nod, seeing as Julie Andrews won the Best Actress award in the original film in 1965.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mary Poppins Returns<\/strong><\/em> will be set in Depression-era London and follow now-grown up versions of Jane and Michael Banks, as well as Michael&#8217;s three children who are visited by Poppins following a personal loss.<\/p>\n<p>The film will feature a screenplay written by David Magee and original songs by Marc Shaiman and Tony-winner Scott Wittman.<\/p>\n<p>Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious news, or a spoonful of bugger? Let us know what you think in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mary Poppins Returns<\/em> hits cinemas on 25 December 2018. Get all the latest fantasy news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Streep is in talks to play Mary Poppins&#8217; cousin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":89782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5270],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1393612150450.cached.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}