Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns - a.k.a. there are now officially too many sequels

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So I was just fucking around on YouTube and found out this was a thing.


From the Wikipedia page:

Mary Poppins Returns is an upcoming American-British musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall, with a screenplay by David Magee, from a story by Magee, Marshall and John DeLuca. A sequel to the acclaimed 1964 film Mary Poppins, the film stars Emily Blunt in the role of Mary Poppins, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Joel Dawson, Nathanael Saleh, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, and Meryl Streep. Set in 1930s London, 25 years after the 1964 film, it sees Mary Poppins, the former nanny of Jane and Michael Banks, re-visiting them after a family tragedy.
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Way to strike while the iron is rusted from decades of unuse and rotting in a landfill somewhere, I guess.
 
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Quijibo69 said:
'Member when every Disney cartoon had to have a DVD sequel like 15 or 18 years ago.

I member.
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I think I liked maybe one of them. Lion King 1 1/3.

This though...I don’t even know what they’re going for here. It’s like doing a sequel to Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
So I was just fucking around on YouTube and found out this was a thing.


From the Wikipedia page:



Way to strike while the iron is rusted from decades of unuse and rotting in a landfill somewhere, I guess.
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They missed a trick by not setting it in the 40's and having Mary Poppins gunning down the Luftwaffe.
 
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Is the person playing Mary Poppins a singer at the very least? Or are we getting yet another Les Miserable/Mama Mia nightmare of actors attempting songs they can't sing? ( Meryl Streep improved a little between Mama Mia and Into the Woods, but if you ever heard an original cast recording you'd hear how rough her voice is)

Why can't they just bring back dubbing?

I actually kind of pity the actress. I mean she's attempting to play a part that's classic, and will always be compared to the original.
 
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Disney ain't stupid. And if Woke Black Annie (2014) can gross $85 million, who am I to doubt? Annie (2014) doubtless lost money in a purely cinematic sense, since the studio only gets to keep around 50% of the gross, but I'll bet it more than broke even once DVD and streaming shekels are factored in. And you ignore the ridiculous fantasy that is Hollywood bookkeeping; it is designed only to screw anyone eligible for a piece of the royalties pie not to accurately present much of anything.

Not that I saw Annie (2014), and not that I have any plans to see this mess, but there seems to be an audience for repackaged rancid nostalgia and Disney ain't one to leave money on the table.

Yeeb-Renzo said:
Are any live-action Disney movies good tho?
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I quite liked the 101 Dalmatians live action version. Wasn't the best thing I've ever seen, but I did laugh at a few points. 'Course my family happened to own a pure-bred Dalmatian when it came out, so I might be biased.
 
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Isn’t almost everyone involved with the original basically dead now? Except maybe the kids?
 
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