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Saving Mr. Banks
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Saving Mr. Banks is an upcoming biographical drama film about the production of the popular 1964 Walt Disney Studios film Mary Poppins. The film will star Tom Hanks as filmmaker Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers. Directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay by Ian Collie, Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, it is tentatively scheduled for a release in 2014, with filming slated to start September 2012. Cast * Tom Hanks as Walt Disney * Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers * Colin Farrell as Travers Robert Goff. As Travers' turbulent father, Goff served as inspiration to the character Mr. Banks. * Paul Giamatti as Ralph, Travers’ chauffeur around Hollywood * Jason Schwartzman as Richard M. Sherman, * Ruth Wilson as Travers' mother According to the 40th Anniversary DVD release of the film in 2004, Disney had been working since 1938 to acquire the rights to the book that was written in 1934, but Travers had great misgivings about how her stories would be filmed. She finally relented and allowed Disney to film the story but was so disappointed with the animated portions of the film that she refused to allow any other stories to be filmed.<ref name="Guardian" /> 
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