That knowledge lets them then wander off in other directions. “I always research what is absolutely correct and I share that with the director and the writers and the producers,” he says.
He says he immerses himself when creating a look for a movie. Knowing what the Banks’s world really would have looked like is an important consideration of Myhre’s. He’s going through tough times after the death of his wife and subsequent financial struggles, troubles echoed throughout the country as 1934 England experiences “the Great Slump.” When we first reunite with the Banks family in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Michael (Ben Whishaw) from the original is grown and has children of his own.
“As a designer, you’re not just designing pretty sets, you’re designing sets to help tell the story.” Myhre, a two-time Oscar winner for art direction (“Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha”), has seen the original “Mary Poppins” many times since that first theater visit as a kid, but says he referred to it less for the new film’s source material. Myhre notes that he and his collaborators based their vision on the new script, written by director Rob Marshall. 6, 2018, the film was nominated for four Golden Globe awards, including for best motion picture – musical or comedy. to r., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pixie Davies, Joel Dawson, Nathanael Saleh and Emily Blunt in 'Mary Poppins Returns.' On Dec. It won Oscars for editing, visual effects, score, song (“Chim Chim Cher-ee”), and its star.įrom l. The original, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, is still beloved today. “It was a really terrific, rich period that really suited our story, which is a completely different story from the first movie.” Travers about the British nanny was published in 1934. “I really embraced 1934 in England,” he says in a phone interview, noting that the first of the books by P.L. 19, Myhre has had a hand in everything from the furniture in the children’s nursery to the use of real greenery on iconic Cherry Tree Lane.įor Myhre and those he collaborates with – including the animators, costumers, and director – the challenge with the sequel was to create visuals that connect to the Oscar-winning original, but that allow for a new adventure set some 20 years later. As the production designer on “Mary Poppins Returns,” which debuts Dec. How a production designer tackles envisioning the new with a nod to the old.įive decades later, the Oscar-winning production designer got his childhood dream job: the chance to design a world for the magical nanny. John Myhre was a fan of the 1964 classic film as a child, and now he’s helping bring its sequel to a new generation.
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