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Angela Lansbury joins Mary Poppins sequel

February 27th, 2017 by Marc Comments

Angela Lansbury has joined the cast of Mary Poppins Returns.

Filming is already underway on the sequel however director Rob Marshall has added the Murder, She Wrote star to an already expanding cast which includes Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Dick Van Dyke. Lansbury will play a Travers-created character called Balloon Lady.

The film, which draws from PL Travers’ other Poppins books, finds the magical nanny (Blunt) returning to the Banks family in Depression-era London to find that her charges Jane and Michael Banks  have now grown up. Michael has three children of his own, and they all need a little help re-discovering the joy in life.

Mary Poppins Returns is scheduled to hit cinema screens on 25 December 2018.

Source: Variety

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….