More Pics From SAVING MR. BANKS, Starring Tom Hanks & Emma Thompson

Take another look at Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, the leading duo of John Lee Hancock‘s latest pic Saving Mr. Banks, which is set to hit theaters next month. As you already know, the movie will tell us the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic Mary Poppins made it to the screen. Head inside to check them out… John Lee Hancock directed the movie from a script written by Kelly Marcel, which follows the life of Travers, shifting between 1907 with her childhood in Queensland, Australia, the negotiations with Walt Disney and the making of Mary Poppins in 1961. Beside the above mentioned duo, the rest of Saving Mr. Banks cast includes Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Annie Rose Buckley, Ruth Wilson, B.J. Novak, Rachel Griffiths and Kathy Baker, and as we said – it is set to hit theaters on December 20th, 2013. Check out the official synopsis once again:

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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