And while Dick Van Dyke does appear in the film, the role of her chimney sweep pal is now played by Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Mary Poppins Returns opens in theaters on December 19.
More than 50 years after she first floated onto movie screens around the world, Mary Poppins returns in the very appropriately titled Mary Poppins Returns. She hasn’t aged a day the characters in the film say, so she’s no longer played by Julie Andrews; now Emily Blunt fills the role.
But the imagination and animation sequences do definitely resemble the ones from the classic Disney film, which had those wonderful Sherman brothers songs.