Mary Poppins production has been rebroadcast several times on BBC Radio 4 Extra. On 14 September 2015, Disney announced a new "Mary Poppins" film was to be made, with a new plot and new songs, though in P.L. Travers' final will, another movie version was not to be made according to her wishes. The film is directed by Rob Marshall and written by David Magee. Songs are composed by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who both received support from Richard Sherman, who, along with his late brother-collaborator Robert Sherman wrote the iconic song score of the original "Mary Poppins" film. Though the
Mary Poppins film is not a reboot or remake of the original 1964 film, Mary Poppins revisits the Banks children from the first film. It is loosely based on the other seven "Mary Poppins" books by Travers, and expands beyond them. Emily Blunt stars as Mary Poppins, alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in the role of Jack, a similar character to Dick Van Dyke's Bert from the first film. It was announced on 31 May 2016 that the film is titled "Mary Poppins Returns" and takes place in Depression-era London, 20 years after the original film. Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw play grown up