10 Movie Franchises That Embarrassed Their Creators

7. Mary Poppins

Though Mary Poppins only recently met the bare minimum qualification for a franchise - that is, two movies - the author of the classic book series on which the original 1964 film was based, P.L. Travers, was staunchly against Disney's approach for the legendary musical.

Travers was fiercely protective of the character, for which she wrote eight books between 1934 and 1988, and served as a script consultant throughout the film's production.

She ultimately felt that Disney's Mary Poppins sanitised the harsher aspects of the title character (as well as making her too physically attractive), didn't care for the music nor the romantic implication between Mary (Julie Andrews) and Bert (Dick Van Dyke), and hated the inclusion of animated elements.

Travers reportedly wept through the film's premiere and subsequently stipulated that only English-born writers could be involved with any future adaptations of Mary Poppins.

For the rest of her life she insisted that Disney had betrayed her, and though Travers died in 1996, one can't imagine she'd have much approved of the whimsical, animation-packed belated sequel, last year's Mary Poppins Returns, starring an extremely appealing Emily Blunt no less.