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New Television Series in Development to Adapt Original Mary Poppins Books
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A live-action Mary Poppins television series is in development, drawing on P. L. Travers’ eight novels rather than retelling Disney’s familiar film story. Tom Winchester is developing and producing the project for Pure Fiction Television with the Travers estate trustees, who granted him the rights. The series is at an early pitch stage, with no showrunner yet secured. Discussions with Disney are preliminary, but the project does not require the studio’s participation to proceed.
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Travers’ Mary Poppins was markedly different from the film’s warm, endlessly caring nanny: she was described as stern and vain, and Travers objected to the film making her too sweet and pretty.
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The novels’ adventures range well beyond the Banks household, including journeys by compass, a Halloween party with the children’s shadows, an undersea garden party and cats on other planets.
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Pure Fiction Television is backed by See-Saw Films, the company behind Slow Horses and Heartstopper, and UK talent agency Hamilton Hodell.
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Travers also objected to the 1964 film’s animated sequences, musical numbers and plot changes, including making Mrs. Banks a suffragette; her dispute with Disney later formed the basis of the film Saving Mr. Banks.
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