(Tom Hanks & Emma Thompson)
Two-time
Academy Award®–winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks
topline Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks,
inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic Mary Poppins made it to the screen.
When
Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favourite book, P L
Travers’ Mary Poppins, he made them a
promise - one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest
to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising
writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get
mauled by the Hollywood machine. However, as the books stop selling and money
grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s
plans for the adaptation.
For
those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with
imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers,
Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P L Travers, but the prickly author
doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes
increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his
grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers
the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins
free, to make ultimately one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.
Disney
presents Saving Mr. Banks, directed
by John Lee Hancock, produced by Alison Owen, Ian Collie and Philip Steuer, and
written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. Executive producers are Paul Trijbits,
Christine Langan, Andrew Mason and Troy Lum.
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