SAVING MR. BANKS Mini-Featurette Released

Disney’s publicity machine for Saving Mr. Banks is starting to gear up after the press junket for the film began last week. Recently, a mini-featurette was released online to coincide with several interviews showing up in anticipation of the November 29th release in the UK and a December 13th release in the US. The featurette takes a look at how Emma Thompson took on the challenging role of P.L. Travers for Saving Mr. Banks. Take a look and let us know what you think in the comment section below!

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‘Saving Mr. Banks’

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 Walt 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. Inspired by true events, Saving Mr. Banks is the extraordinary story of how 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.

Saving Mr. Banks is 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.

 

You can find out more about Saving Mr. Banks by visiting the following links:

Saving Mr. Banks official site:  http://movies.disney.com/saving-mr-banks

Saving Mr. Banks Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/SavingMrBanks

Saving Mr. Banks Twitter: https://twitter.com/SavingMrBanks

 

 

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