Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble producer Scott Jeffrey Chambers has revealed the movie will have Mary Poppins and not many survivors
We had heard that director Rhys Frake-Waterfield and producer Scott Jeffrey Chambers were planning to create a cinematic universe with the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films and other horror movies inspired by children's stories, like Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, Bambi: The Reckoning, and Pinocchio Unstrung. Then, Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios officially announced that this cinematic universe, which is being referred to as The Twisted Childhood Universe, is building up to the crossover movie , which will be released in 2025. Now, JoBlo's own Tyler Nichols has had the chance to talk to Chambers about their plans for Poohniverse - and during their conversation, Chambers revealed that one of the classic children's story characters who will be added into the mix with this movie, which sounds like it's going to be a total bloodbath, is Mary Poppins!
Mary Poppins was created by writer P. L. Travers, who wrote about the character in a series of eight novels. Walt Disney released a musical Mary Poppins film in 1964 that starred Julie Andrews as the character, and in 2018 she was played by Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns.
Frake-Waterfield will be directing Poohniverse from a screenplay he wrote with Chambers. It was previously confirmed that the cast will include Chambers as Christopher Robin, Megan Plactio as Wendy Darling, Roxanne Mckee as Xana, Lewis Santer as Tigger, and Martin Portlock as Peter Pan. Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare and Bambi: The Reckoning are set to receive theatrical releases in the first quarter of 2025, with Pinocchio Unstrung likely to follow later in the year, so we'll be introduced to those horrific characters well before Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble makes it to screens.
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