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SAVING MR. BANKS opens in theaters limited on December 13, 2013 and opens wide on December 20, 2013!
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 favorite
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. But, 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 ultimately make 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, Andrew Mason, Troy
Lum and Christine Langan. The film will release in U.S. theaters on December 13, 2013, limited, and open wide on December 20, 2013.
We were at Disneyland when they were filming this! Can't wait to see it!!!
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