Interview With "Mary Poppins Returns" Screenwriter, David Magee

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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David Magee has already earned himself a reputation in Hollywood as being a go-to man for adapting stories for the screen receiving an Oscar nomination in 2012 for "Life Of Pi" and now he's back with a new film, a sequel to a movie that is over 50 years old, "Mary Poppins Returns." How did he go about writing the story for the much anticipated sequel? What was it like working with Rob Marshall, Disney and the other close collaborators on such a beloved project? Find out all of this and more in our in-depth interview below. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our interview of films such as Finding Neverland and Life of Pie, David McGee, whose latest work is
0:41.3	the sequel to Mary Poppins titled Mary Poppins Returns. David, how are you today?
0:47.0	I'm doing great. Thank you very much. Absolutely. You know, when I list off the credits,
0:52.1	also you're credited with writing Miss
0:54.4	Pettigrew lives for a day. There's only four films listed there, but I mean, that's
0:59.1	quite a body of work that you've accumulated for yourself throughout your screenwriting career
1:03.7	so far. And I have to give you some props and kudos to that too, because I don't know
1:09.2	how much I'm allowed to say necessarily because there
1:11.2	is currently a review embargo on Mary Poppins returns, but I will just say congratulations, sir.
1:17.3	I think you have yet another wonderful hit on your hands here with this one.
1:21.1	Thank you very much.
1:22.1	I appreciate that.
1:23.4	And I'm biased and I'm not under an embargo, so I can say I think it's great.
1:28.8	Well, I want to start us off from the beginning, I guess, then.
1:31.7	So you're nominated for the Oscar for Life of Pie.
1:34.2	That's back in 2012.
1:36.0	Here we are now six years later.
1:38.2	What was the process like between that and Mary Popper's returns?
1:42.2	How did this project ultimately land at your desk, essentially?
1:48.8	Well, you know, projects take a long time to get done, and there are other things I've worked on in the interim,
1:53.9	which I hope will be coming to a theater new use someday soon. But this project came to me three years ago.
1:59.4	I got a call from my agent saying that Rob Marshall had wanted to check and see if I would be interested in working on a sequel to Mary Poppins, new adventures of Mary Poppins.
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