Movie Adaptation
The books were later adapted for the films Nanny McPhee (2005) and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010). In these motion pictures there are only seven children, and Nurse Matilda is renamed Nanny McPhee - her first name is not mentioned.
The most significant departure from the books, however, is the absence of Mrs. Brown. In Brand's stories, Mrs. Brown is alive and well, whereas in the first film she is dead, having fallen ill after the birth of the youngest child, Agatha. Mr. Brown is forced to marry the foul Selma Quickly, a garishly clothed, thrice-widowed gold-digger, whose character did not appear in the books.
The sequel Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010) is loosely based on the trilogy of Nurse Matilda books. The film does not closely follow the plot of the trilogy, but several individual scenes are obviously derived from the three books. Emma Thompson started to write the script based on Brand's books in the spring of 2007.
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