Splendid First Trailer For SAVING MR. BANKS Arrives

Here’s the new trailer for director John Lee Hancock’s SAVING MR. BANKS. Inspired by true events, SAVING MR. BANKS is the extraordinary, untold story of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen – and the testy relationship that the legendary Walt Disney had with author P.L. Travers that almost derailed it. Two-time Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar-winner Tom Hanks star.

Looks good! I’m already loving the chemistry between Thompson and Hanks. Let’s see how it goes over with Academy voters during this Oscar season. “Mary Poppins” won five awards of its 13 Academy Award® nominations at the 1965 ceremonies: Best Actress (Julie Andrews), Best Effects, Best Film Editing, Original Score and Original Song (“Chim Chim-Cher-ee”). Among the nominations were Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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.

The film also features Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Annie Rose Buckley, Ruth Wilson, B.J. Novak, Rachel Griffiths, and Kathy Baker.

SAVING MR. BANKS opens in theaters limited on December 13, 2013 and opens wide on December 20, 2013.

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