History Trivia / MaryPoppinsReturns

** Creator/JulieWalters plays Ellen the maid. Hermione Baddeley passed away of a stroke at age 79 in 1986.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: After ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' and ''Film/IntoTheWoods'', this marks the third movie in which Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep work together.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The film was released [[SequelGap fifty-four years after the first]]. The first film was released fifty-four years after it was set (1910).

* DoingItForTheArt: Director Rob Marshall had to fight hard to include a sequence with classic-style hand-drawn animation, since the higher-ups at Disney believed audiences were no longer interested in the medium and that the sequence would work better in CGI. Marshall later recruited Duncan Studios in Florida to provide the 2D animation for the film, pulling many older Disney animators out of retirement to work on it. However, a CGI-reliant sequence was indeed included in the form of “Can You Imagine That”, which was itself based on a sequence that was to be 2D animated.

* SequelGap: Comes out a whopping ''fifty-four years'' after the original film. Less time passed ''in-universe'' (the TimeSkip separating the installments being less than half at only 25 years).

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: After ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada'' and ''Film/IntoTheWoods'', this marks at least the third time Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep would work together.

** Considering Arthur Malet's age in the first film when he played Mr. Dawes Jr., the character should be just a few years under 60. At the time of the film's premiere, Dick Van Dyke had just turned 93.

** Considering Arthur Malet's age in the first film when he played Mr. Dawes Jr., the character should be just a few years under 60. Dick Van Dyke is well over 90.

* RoleReprisal: In the Dutch dub, Mary Poppins is dubbed by actress Noortje Herlaar, who previously played her in the Dutch production of the [[Theatre/MaryPoppins stage play]].

** Emily Mortimer plays Jane Banks, succeeding Karen Dotrice, who's in her 60s.

* SequelGap: Comes out a whopping ''fifty-four years'' after the original film.

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/DickVanDyke (Bert and Mr. Dawes Sr. in the original film). His RemakeCameo has him play Mr. Dawes Jr. instead.

* DoingItForTheArt: Director Rob Marshall had to fight hard to include a sequence with classic-style hand-drawn animation, since the higher-ups at Disney believed audiences were no longer interested in the medium and that the sequence would work better in CGI. Marshall later recruited Duncan Studios in Florida to provide the 2D animation for the film, pulling many older Disney animators out of retirement to work on it.

* RefittedForSequel: A RogerRabbitEffect underwater sequence, likely inspired by ''Mary Poppins Opens The Door'''s sixth chapter, "High Tide", was planned for the first film and ended up scrapped and retooled into "Beautiful Briny Sea" in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''. Decades later, one such sequence has been integrated in ''Mary Poppins Returns'', albeit using realistic CGI rather than traditional animation.

* DoingItForTheArt: Director Rob Marshall had to fight hard to include a sequence with classic-style hand-drawn animation, since the higher-ups at Disney believed audiences were no longer interested in the medium and that the sequence would work better in CGI. Marshall later recruited Duncan Studios in Florida to provide the 2D animation for the film, pulling many older Disney animators out of retirement to work on the film.

* RefittedForSequel: A RogerRabbitEffect underwater sequence, likely inspired by ''Mary Poppins Opens The Door'''s sixth chapter, "High Tide", was planned for the first film and ended up scrapped and retooled into "Beautiful Briny Sea" in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''. Decades later, one such sequence has been integrated in ''Mary Poppins Returns''.

** [[https://www.james-baker.com/news/mary-poppins-returns/ Concept art]] reveals that the scrapped "Chimpanzoo" idea from the first film, where humans are kept in cages for the entertainment of animals, was going to be [[RefittedForSequel used here]], before being scrapped once again.

* RefittedForSequel: A RogerRabbitEffect underwater sequence, likely inspired by ''Mary Poppins Opens The Door'''s sixth chapter, "High Tide", was planned for the first film and ended up scrapped.[[note]]It was actually retooled into "Beautiful Briny Sea" in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''.[[/note]] Decades later, one such sequence has been integrated in ''Mary Poppins Returns''.

* FakeBrit: The Puerto Rican Lin-Manuel Miranda as the Cockney Jack the Lamplighter.