Talk:My Little Pony The Movie/@comment-24206774-20170717223045/@comment-188360-20170718153936

Also, P.L. Travers, the author of the original Poppins book, famously disliked the film adaptation so much that in her will, she stated that she only wanted British people to make any further adaptations of her novel, hence the reason why the Sherman Brothers were not involved in the making of the Mary Poppins stage musical. But this film once again has an American director (Rob Marshall), an American writer (David Magee), and American songwriters (Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman of Hairspray fame). Plus, Lin Manuel Miranda, who is Latin American, is playing the Bert-esque role, and I can't even fathom how terrible his cockney dialect is going to be compared with Dick van Dyke's.