Another "Mary Poppins' movie?
Apr. 9th, 2012 09:01 pmPer Variety; " Hanks will play Walt Disney with Thompson portraying "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers.
Announced for development earlier this year with The Blind Side director John Lee Hancock helming, Saving Mr. Banks made last year's "Black List" of unproduced screenplays and tells the true behind-the-scenes story of the making of Walt Disney Pictures' 1964 film classic, based on Travers' book.
Written by Kelly Marcel, best known as a writer and producer on Fox's "Terra Nova," Banks focuses specifically on P.L. Travers, the woman who wrote the "Mary Poppins" books beginning in 1934 and her fierce apprehension (and later regret) about bringing the character to the screen."
The Hanks, being Tom Hanks, and the Thompson being Emma Thompson.
It's a safe bet given Travers regret about letting Disney make a movie of her stories that this won't be distributed by the mouse house. I will want to see this though, even with Hanks, who is a personality, not an actor.
I wonder if they will include the fact that Disney was anti-semitic?