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| AutoPost
Fri 2/10/2012 1:46p | This topic is for Discussion of Latest: Disney Nearing Deal for Film Based on Walt's 14-Year Effort to Secure Rights to Mary Poppi
In one of the more interesting stories I've read in a while, Deadline.com reports Disney has acquired a script called "Saving Mr. Banks" about the very long process of convincing Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to sell the rights to make a movie based on Mary Poppins to Disney. Actors being considered are Tom Hanks for Walt Disney and Meryl Streep as P.L. Travers. I can't wait ot see this one! |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Fri 2/10/2012 1:55p | Hey cool! They could include scenes of early Disneyland! |
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| oc_dean
Fri 2/10/2012 4:19p | Very interesting!
Is this the very first time an actor will portray Walt?
How would they do early scenes of Disneyland? My guess is they have to go to rides and areas that have not changed much since the 1950s to early 60s. And when you think about it .. there is not a lot.
CGI?
Create entire sets on a parcel of land? And interiors in Soundstages? |
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| Liberty Belle
Fri 2/10/2012 4:51p | Cool! Can't really picture Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, though... |
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| mawnck
Fri 2/10/2012 5:42p | "The Devil Wears Pearlie"
I'm sure Meryl will be wonderful, but why not Julie Andrews as P. L. Travers? (And while they're at it, maybe Anne Hathaway as Julie Andrews!)
Anyhoo, I've been pooh-poohing a Walt Disney biopic as too boring for any real audience to sit through, but THIS sounds like it has potential. |
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| oc_dean
Fri 2/10/2012 6:12p | I think your Anne H. as Julie ... and Julie as PL Travers is a BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT idea!!
It's established Anne and Julie have a good working rapport with one another ... with the two Princess Diaries films. |
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| danyoung
Fri 2/10/2012 9:58p | I wonder if the story will be told of how Ms. Travers didn't like a lot of the material being shot, and really didn't like the casting of Dick Van Dyke, a YANK, as Bert. Supposedly Walt continued to tell her all through production that they would be making changes later, but for now they needed to get on with production. On opening night Ms. Travers was reported to ask Walt when they would be starting the re-shoot and re-edit, and Walt responded something like "Madam, I have made the movie I wanted to make", and that was the end of it.
I've had a deep interest in Walt, his life and his career. Hew did a lot of things right, but I've always thought that this wasn't one of them.
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| basil fan
Sat 2/11/2012 8:17a | I read that she hated the animated sequences and wanted them out of the picture. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Sat 2/11/2012 9:36a | <I"ve had a deep interest in Walt, his life and his career. Hew did a lot of things right, but I've always thought that this wasn't one of them.>
Are you saying that you don't like Mary Poppins? |
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| Rsey103
Sat 2/11/2012 11:27a | Streep would be a perfect Pamela. |
