Tag: mary poppins

Tweet of the Day, Disney Does What Needs Doing In Mary Poppins edition.

Mad respect, as the kids say.

Shouldn’t surprise me that Disney managed this.  They are, after all, Disney.  They’ve been making fantasy movies for decades, and what they didn’t develop in-house they bought, often with the original studios intact.  There’s institutional knowledge there, is what I’m saying.

Sequel to… Mary Poppins?

Did we know about this?

Walt Disney Pictures has officially announced that Golden Globe Award winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, the upcoming Girl on the Train) and Emmy, Grammy, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton,” “In the Heights”) are set to star in Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the studio’s 1964 classic, Mary Poppins, which will be released on December 25, 2018.

…because I feel like I knew about this already, somehow. Although, truth be told… the era that this movie is from isn’t really my scene.  Early Sixties stuff often isn’t; I’m down with the Atomic Horror stuff in the 1950s and the Golden Age of Dystopian Movies in the 1970s, but that period in-between isn’t reliably in my wheelhouse.  When it comes to that decade it’s pretty much war movies for me and not much else.

So I dunno if I’m going to be all that outraged, honestly. I mean, it might not suck on its own merits.