Emily Mortimer Joins Mary Poppins Returns

Emily Mortimer will be joining Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda in the upcoming “Mary Poppins Returns”.  She will be playing the part of Jane Banks, who was one of the children, that Mary Poppins looked after, in the original movie, Ben Whishaw will be playing her brother Michael.  The movie will be set 25 years after the original movie and will be directed by Rob Marshall.

The screenplay will be written by Oscar nominee David Magee and is based on “The Mary Poppins Stories” by P.L. Travers, with Marc Shaiman composing an all-new score. Scott Wittman will be writing original songs.

Mary Poppins Returns is set to hit cinemas on Christmas Day, 2018.

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Emily Mortimer, wearing Chanel
Chanel: Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner, New York – 18 Apr 2016

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