But Allen might have expanded the character and given her a more dramatic and complicated temperament.
Travers first introduced Poppins in a 1926 short story and later expanded the character's adventures into a novel.
In her place, the new team has expanded the character of Norman Osborn, who becomes the joke-spewing Green Goblin, originally a primary player in Act I.
In her novel Villette (1853), she used plot material from The Professor and expanded the character of Crimsworth into that of Paul Emanuel.
The first episode expanded the character from the odd joke of his "Happy Days" appearance and established his new world, contemporary Boulder, Colo.
Originally intended to have only one line, the filmmakers were impressed with Pierce's performance and expanded the character's role significantly, eschewing a mute Music Box character.
The developers expanded the character's set of moves threefold to allow more interaction with the environment, like swinging on ropes and kicking open doors.
It greatly expanded the character of Slugworth, who enlists the film's children as candy spies, urging them to poach Wonka's most important creation yet, the Everlasting Gobstopper.
The problem is that in expanding the characters from his life and his songs into these stories, Davies does not necessarily make them more vivid.
Encouraged by the online support, Joe Lawson, the copywriter of the Geico commercials, along with Josh Gordon and Will Speck, the directors, wrote a pilot script for a "Cavemen" sitcom that would continue to expand the characters' world.
