American-Australian-British historical comedy-drama Saving Mr Banks, starring Tom Hanks in the lead role, is being screened at Star Cineplex.
Directed by John Lee, the film is centered on the development of the 1964 Walt Disney Studios film Mary Poppins. Tom Hanks plays the role of filmmaker Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as author P L Travers and, with supporting roles from Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, BJ Novak, and Colin Farrell.
When Walt Disney’s daughters beg him to make a movie of their favourite book, PL Travers’ Mary Poppins, he makes them a promise which takes 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.