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Rob Marshall to Helm New Disney Mary Poppins Film

The director recently worked with Disney on the movie version of Sondheim’s ”Into the Woods”.

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Ashley Brown, Katherine Leigh Doherty, Alexander Scheitinger, and Gavin Lee in a scene from Mary Poppins on Broadway.
Ashley Brown, Katherine Leigh Doherty, Alexander Scheitinger, and Gavin Lee in a scene from Mary Poppins on Broadway.
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Film and Broadway director Rob Marshall (Cabaret) is set to direct a new Mary Poppins film for Disney, according to Variety. John DeLuca and Marc Platt will serve as producers.

The new look at Mary Poppins will likely be set 20 years after the first film. It will continue to take story lines from P.L. Travers’ children books and focus on the nanny’s interactions with the Banks family.

Rob Marshall has previously helmed film adaptations of the musicals Chicago and Into the Woods, the latter of which he worked on with Disney. His many Broadway credits include Tony nominations for choreography for Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me, Damn Yankees, Cabaret, and Little Me as well as a Tony nod for Best Direction for Cabaret.

The original film musical version of Mary Poppins was released in 1964 and starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Disney's Broadway musical version of the story ran at the New Amsterdam Theatre from 2006-2013.