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The new live-action film will reportedly take place 20 years after the original, which starred Julie Andrews.

In today's reboot-happy Hollywood climate, it seems as though it was only a matter of time before Disney decided to revive one of its most celebrated movie characters, Mary Poppins, for a new film. And today, we learn that the studio is busy creating a new project for the magical, P.L. Travers-masterminded nanny which Rob Marshall (

Thankfully, Disney is restraining itself from a by-the-numbers remake of the 1964 classic, which was recently revisited in 2013's behind-the-scenes biopic

. Instead, the studio will spin the clock forward on Mary Poppins, the character that earned Julie Andrews her only Oscar, to Depression-era London, two decades after the events in the original film.

, which first broke the news, reports that “the new project (which is decidedly not being developed as a sequel) will explore Mary’s further adventures with the Banks family and beyond as illustrated by Travers’ seven additional novels.” David Magee (

Not only will there be a new plot, but the new Mary Poppins movie will feature entirely new songs and score, composed by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (

adds that Disney and Marshall “are collaborating with the Travers estate and have already earned support from Poppins’ co-composer Richard Sherman, who penned the original film’s famous songs like 'Chim Chim Cher-ee' and 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' with his late brother, Robert.”

There is no word yet on when the movie is expected to reach theaters, or who might succeed Andrews as Mary Poppins 2.0. (Who else can see Anne Hathaway, Andrews’s

Take a look at Andrews as the iconic character singing “A Spoonful of Sugar,” and consider who might make a worthy Mary Poppins successor below.

Andrews and Plummer, with the Alps in the background, on location for

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