Check Out The Very Sweet Poster For Disney’s SAVING MR. BANKS

Earlier in July we got our first look of Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers in the trailer for SAVING MR. BANKS.

Today the shadows of Mickey Mouse and Mary Poppins feature prominently in this first poster for director John Lee Hancock’s film. There is such an emotional finesse to the simplicity of the figures walking side-by-side that harkens back to the glory days of Disney.

Its so very sweet and when a studio gets it right, a poster like the one above hits you right in the gut.

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.

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.

So many great names in this movie – bet on a big Oscar push – especially for Hanks! Hey, if Daniel Day-Lewis can get 3 Acting Oscars, its not a stretch for Tom.

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.

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