# Disney making "Mary Poppins" sequel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265 "2015-09-14T21:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/21 "2015-09-15T13:03:23Z")
I could see Miley Cyrus as the new and improved Mary Poppins. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/22 "2015-09-15T14:35:50Z")
Maybe she’ll fight the MoonChild, as in Alan Moore’s _Century_ series of _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_. Or Voldemort, like at the London Olympics. Or she’ll be Jesus’ nanny, as suggested in Neil Gaiman’s “The Problem of Susan”. [http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2012/07/mary-poppins-vs-voldemort/](http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2012/07/mary-poppins-vs-voldemort/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/23 "2015-09-15T14:38:35Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That’s right-[Disney is supposedly making a sequel to “Mary Poppins” set 20 years later.](http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2015/09/14/disney-plans-new-mary-poppins-movie/) 20 years later . . . **Mary Poppins Meets Jeeves!** ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/24 "2015-09-15T15:31:07Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 20 years later . . . > > **Mary Poppins Meets Jeeves!** That I would watch. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/25 "2015-09-15T15:35:20Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I don’t know about Julie, but I have a feeling that [Dick could handle it…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoPugqYMISM) That was great. Thanks. There’s the proverbial aging portrait of Dick Van Dyke hidden in an attic somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/26 "2015-09-15T17:33:13Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maybe she’ll fight the MoonChild, as in Alan Moore’s _Century_ series of _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_. When I heard that _League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ was going to be remade, my first thought was that Mary Poppins would be great in that group. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/27 "2015-09-15T17:49:03Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > I could see Miley Cyrus as the new and improved Mary Poppins. Uh, Mary. You’re only supposed to _dance_ with the penguins. No, that kind of dancing is **not** better! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/28 "2015-09-15T18:35:18Z")
Maybe a Harry Potter crossover: “Mary Poppins and the Snort of Derision”. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/29 "2015-09-15T18:56:10Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > …Bert went to the War, was blinded, had both legs and an arm blown off… Did they give him a wooden leg? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/30 "2015-09-15T19:03:30Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > I could see Miley Cyrus as the new and improved Mary Poppins. > [@Voyager](#): > > Uh, Mary. You’re only supposed to _dance_ with the penguins. > No, that kind of dancing is **not** better! I don’t do this often but: LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/31 "2015-09-17T21:54:57Z")
**The Simpsons** already did it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKGRE7DlB8I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKGRE7DlB8I) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265/32 "2015-09-17T22:03:50Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I don’t know about Julie, but I have a feeling that [Dick could handle it…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoPugqYMISM) That totally fucking rocked! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-making-mary-poppins-sequel/731265.md?page=1)