Mary Poppins Returns Out on Blu-ray 3/19

Mary Poppins Returns is available on Digital 4K Ultra HD™ 3/12 and on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray™ 3/19!

In Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns,” an all new original musical, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives following a personal loss. Directed by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by David Magee and a screen story by Magee & Marshall & John DeLuca based upon the Mary Poppins Stories by PL Travers, the film stars: Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins; Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack; Ben Whishaw as Michael Banks; Emily Mortomer as Jane Banks; Julie Walters as Ellen; Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and Joel Dawson as the Banks children; with Colin Firth as William Weatherall Wilkins; and Meryl Streep as Cousin Topsy.

“Mary Poppins Returns” is produced by John DeLuca, p.g.a., Rob Marshall, p.g.a., and Marc Plat , p.g.a., with Callum McDougall serving as executive producer. The film features all-new original songs with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, as well as an original film score by Shaiman.

The vocabulary of the characters is key when developing a musical, and as songwriters, Shaiman and Wittman were able to create songs that feel authentic to the ‘30s, yet modern at the same Ɵ me. In the big song-and dance production number, “Trip a Little Light Fantastic,” the lamplighters, who call themselves ‘leeries,’ were given their own unique language. “We called it leerie speak,” says Witt man. “It’s a Cockney rhyming slang that, of course, Mary Poppins speaks quite well, as does Jack.”

“The musical element of this film was an utter joy,” says Emily Blunt. “I was a part of the process from early on, and we all felt it was such a collaboration. Rob is so very attentive to your needs as an actor and acknowledges your vision for the part.”

Also cast in the film were Disney legends Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke. The illustrious Lansbury, who starred in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” and the animated “Beauty and the Beast” for the studio, plays the magical Balloon Lady, a treasured character from the PL Travers books. Dick Van Dyke, from “Mary Poppins,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and countless other films, plays Mr. Dawes, Jr., the retired chairman of the bank now run by Firth’s character, and the son of the character he played in the first film.

It has always been a dream of Rob Marshall’s to conceive an original musical specifically for film. The Oscar®-nominated (“Chicago”), Emmy® and DGA Award-winning director, who began his career on the Broadway stage as a choreographer and director, is responsible for the successful screen adaptations of “Chicago,” “Nine” and “Into the Woods” and knows how to construct a musical. He understands the world of film and the world of Broadway musicals in a unique and personal way, and “Mary Poppins Returns” was a chance for him to create an homage to the classic movie musicals of his youth.

Following the successful collaboration with Marshall, his producing partner John DeLuca and producer Marc Platt on “Into the Woods,” Disney was eager to partner with the filmmakers on another project and suggested a sequel to one of its most treasured titles, “Mary Poppins,” a film that turned out to have a deep personal connection on for each of them.

‘Mary Poppins’ was the first film I saw as a child, and it opened up my mind to movies and to the love of musicals, adventure and fantasy in film,” says Marshall. “But when they came to me it was quite daunting, because how do you follow that iconic film? But I was thrilled at the same time and excited about the idea of taking on something like this…I’d never had the chance to create an original musical for film before.” Marshall continues, “This is probably the most personal film I’ve ever done because of the profound nature
of what it says about finding the child inside and keeping hope alive in a very dark time. It also feels especially timely to me because of the current world climate that we are in.” (Source:  Walt Disney Studios).

Blu-ray Special Features

• Back to Cherry Tree Lane: Dick Van Dyke Returns
• The practically perfect making of Mary Poppins Returns
• Sing-along edition
• Practically perfect blooper reel
• “Seeing Things from a Different Point of View”: The Musical Numbers of Mary Poppins Returns
• Deleted song “The Anthropomorphic Zoo”
• Exclusive included with digital code – audio commentary
• And more!

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