--- title: Mary Poppins: Anne Hathaway Is Favorite for Nanny Role description: The Disney reboot was announced on Monday canonical: https://time.com/4035983/anne-hathaway-mary-poppins/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-16T10:34:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:06.718Z og:title: Mary Poppins: Anne Hathaway Is Favorite for Nanny Role og:description: The Disney reboot was announced on Monday og:url: https://time.com/4035983/anne-hathaway-mary-poppins/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd717b56251367030/698786e0e53abacca74d86e3/anne-hathaway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Anne Hathaway og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mary Poppins: Anne Hathaway Is Favorite for Nanny Role twitter:description: The Disney reboot was announced on Monday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd717b56251367030/698786e0e53abacca74d86e3/anne-hathaway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Anne Hathaway Is Bookies' Favorite to Play the New Mary Poppins > Sponsored content. 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Anne Hathaway arrives for the premiere of the film "Interstellar" in New York, in 2014. Carlo Allegri—Reuters by [Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / Entertainment Weekly Sep 16, 2015 10:34 AM UTC With the news Monday that Disney is developing a new live-action musical film featuring Mary Poppins, people are already starting to wonder who could possibly play the practically perfect nanny. And, it seems, some are already placing bets on the subject. BoyleSports, an Ireland-based online betting firm, announced Tuesday that Anne Hathaway is the current favorite to pick up Poppins’ bag and umbrella, with 6/4 odds. Other actresses in “contention,” at least as far as bettors are concerned, are leading ladies with vocal chops like Emily Blunt (5/2), Amy Adams (7/2), Kristen Bell (11/2), and Anna Kendrick (10/1). More actresses who made BoyleSports’ list include Amanda Seyfried (12/1), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (16/1), Lea Michele (33/1), and Anna Camp (50/1). The new film, which has _Into the Woods_ director Rob Marshall and producers John DeLuca and Marc Platt on board, will take place in Depression-era London, some 20 years after Disney’s classic 1964 _Mary Poppins_, and will draw from existing Poppins tales in the rest of author P.L. Travers’ children’s book series. Songwriting duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (_Hairspray, Smash_) are on board to compose original songs and a new score for the movie, and David Magee (_Finding Neverland, Life of Pi_) is attached to write the screenplay. Head here for more details on the project, news of which first broke here at EW. 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