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Colin Farrell To Star In Disney’s ‘Saving Mr. Banks’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 12:08pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Colin Farrell, Saving Mr. Banks, Tom Hanks, Walt Disney
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell is in talks to join the cast of Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, the John Lee Hancock directed and Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney waged a 14-year courtship to persuade Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him rights to make a film out of Mary Poppins. Deadline has told you Tom Hanks will play Disney and Emma Thompson will play Travers. Farrell will play her father, the inspiration for the Mr. Banks character played by David Tomlinson in the 1964 classic film that starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

The heart of this script comes from how close Travers felt to her story of a nanny with magical powers. Mary Poppins was highly personal, and reflected hardships in her own life and her relationship with her father, who died when she was 7. Disney finally persuaded her to let him make the film, but she was prickly all the way to the end. While Mary Poppins was lauded immediately, she hated the animated sequences in the film so much that she refused to sell any of her other works to Disney. Farrell, who is repped by CAA, next stars in the Total Recall remake, and just committed to star in the Akiva Goldsman-directed Winter’s Tale.

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Tom Hanks Now Getting Serious For ‘Saving Mr. Banks’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks, Tom Hanks
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline told you back in February that Tom Hanks was in the mix to play Walt Disney in the John Lee Hancock directed and Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney waged a 14-year courtship to persuade Australian … Read More »

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John Lee Hancock In Talks For Making Of Mary Poppins Pic ‘Saving Mr. Banks’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 27, 2012 @ 4:02pm PSTTags: Disney, John Lee Hancock, Mary Poppins, Saving Mr. Banks
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Blind Side helmer John Lee Hancock is in early talks with Disney to direct Saving Mr. Banks, the Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney waged a 14-year courtship to persuade Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him … Read More »

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Disney Acquiring Black List Script ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ On Making ‘Mary Poppins’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 7:09am PSTTags: 2011 Black List, Julie Andrews, Saving Mr. Banks, Walt Disney
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Walt Disney Company is near a deal to acquire Saving Mr. Banks, the Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney persuaded Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him the rights to make a film out of Mary Poppins. … Read More »

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