Two fresh tracks from Mary Poppins Returns are here!
Disney dropped the original songs on Monday (November 26).
Emily Blunt‘s “The Place Where Lost Things Go” offers a sentimental ballad, while Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” is a lively piece for the movie’s lamplighters, which also features Emily, Tarik Frimpong, Pixie Davies, Joel Dawson, Nathanael Saleh, and Leeries.
Emily is playing the title character in the film, and Lin-Manuel will portray Jack the lamplighter.
In Mary Poppins returns, decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael’s children through a difficult time in their lives.
Don’t miss it when it hits theaters on December 19, and listen to the new songs below!
The all-new sequel to the beloved classic hits theaters on December 25.
Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Emily plays the practically-perfect nanny with unique magical skills who can turn any task into an unforgettable, fantastic adventure; and Lin-Manuel plays her friend Jack, an optimistic street lamplighter who helps bring light—and life—to the streets of London.
We are so excited to find out what Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael have been up to so we can’t wait to see the upcoming sequel Mary Poppins Returns… and now we’ve been treated to the first photo of star Emily Blunt in costume!
The photo shows Poppins dressed in her iconic blue coat and holding her magical suitcase.
The film is set in 1930s depression-era London (the time period of the original novels) and is drawn from the wealth of material in PL Travers’ additional seven books. In the story, Michael (Ben Whishaw) and Jane (Emily Mortimer) are now grown up, with Michael, his three children and their housekeeper, Ellen (Julie Walters), living on Cherry Tree Lane. After Michael suffers a personal loss, the enigmatic nanny Mary Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family, and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda), uses her unique magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Mary Poppins also introduces the children to a new assortment of colorful and whimsical characters, including her eccentric cousin, Topsy (Meryl Streep).
We still have a long time to wait until the movie is released as it doesn’t hit theaters until December 25, 2018!
Emily Blunt will be playing the title role in the upcoming movie Mary Poppins Returns and the official synopsis has just been revealed!
The movie is also set to star Hamilton creator and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda as a new character, a street lamplighter named Jack.
The story will take place in Depression-era London (when the books were originally written) and follows a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, who, along with Michael’s three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.
“I am truly humbled and honored to be asked by Disney to bring P.L. Travers‘ further adventures to the screen. The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,” director Rob Marshall said in a statement.
The screenplay will be written by David Magee (Finding Neverland, Life of Pi) and new original songs will be written by Hairspray composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
Mary Poppins Returns is set to be released on December 25, 2018!
Ed Sheeran looks like a suave stud while posing for photos at the 2015 American Institute for Stuttering Freeing Voices Changing Lives Gala on Monday (June 8) in New York City.
The 24-year-old singer met up with Into the Woods actress Emily Blunt on the red carpet at the event.
Ed was in attendance to give an inspiring speech on how he overcame his stutter.
“I was a very, very weird child. I had a port-wine stain birthmark on my face that I got lasered off when I was very young; one day, they forgot to put the anesthetic on, and ever since then, I had a stutter,” Ed said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “I also had very big, blue NHS glasses – NHS is the National Health Service, one day I hope you’ll have the same! And I lacked an eardrum on one side of my ear, so stuttering was actually the least of my problems!”
