--- description: The actress in in talks to star in an upcoming Disney sequel to the 1964 original. title: Emily Blunt May Be the Next Mary Poppins image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1c77144b59f7fc3/698866610b72e3420e6e61ec/emily-blunt.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Emily Blunt May Be the Next Mary Poppins by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 19, 2016 1:04 PM CUT  Actress Emily Blunt attends HFPA Annual Grants Banquet at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on Aug. 13, 2015. Actress Emily Blunt attends HFPA Annual Grants Banquet at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on Aug. 13, 2015.Frazer Harrison—Getty Images by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 19, 2016 1:04 PM CUT [Emily Blunt](http://time.com/4047838/at-the-border-a-star-crosses-hollywood-boundaries/ "undefined") is in talks to star in an upcoming _Mary Poppins_ sequel, [Entertainment Weekly](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/18/emily-blunt-mary-poppins-disney "undefined") reports. Blunt is in negotiations to play the magical nanny in an [upcoming Disney follow-up](http://time.com/4033915/mary-poppins-musical-movie/ "undefined") to the original 1964 film. Rob Marshall, the film’s director, previously worked with Blunt on another Disney musical film, 2014’s _Into the Woods_. The new film will take place some 20 years [after the original](http://time.com/3178096/mary-poppins-feminist-anniversary/ "undefined"), which starred Julie Andrews as a nanny with magic powers who stumbles into various adventures while watching the Banks children. [Read more at Entertainment Weekly](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/18/emily-blunt-mary-poppins-disney "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4230330/emily-blunt-mary-poppins/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4230330/emily-blunt-mary-poppins/"},"headline":"Emily Blunt May Be the Next Mary Poppins","datePublished":"2016-02-19T13:04:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:12:55.433Z","description":"It would be a sequel to the 1964 original","url":"https://time.com/4230330/emily-blunt-mary-poppins/","keywords":["movies","celebrity","emily blunt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1c77144b59f7fc3/698866610b72e3420e6e61ec/emily-blunt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1c77144b59f7fc3/698866610b72e3420e6e61ec/emily-blunt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Emily Blunt","caption":"Emily Blunt","creditText":"Frazer Harrison—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4230330/emily-blunt-mary-poppins/","name":"Emily Blunt May Be the Next Mary Poppins"}}]}] ```