BURBANK, California (Reuters) - In the leafy, idyllic setting that is the Disney Studios lot, author P.L. Travers made life hell for writers and composers and Walt Disney himself in a movie that ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” screenwriter Kelly Marcel was a “Mary Poppins” pro as a kid compared to the pic’s co-star Colin Farrell. “It was definitely the film we watched every Christmas,” said Marcel at a ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” is the ultra-Disneyfied version of the tale of Walt Disney convincing a hostile P.L. Travers to let him make a film of her “Mary Poppins” books.

P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

Tom Hanks is Walt Disney and Emma Thompson is writer PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, a story recounting the tumultuous and highly emotional journey that brought Mary Poppins to the big screen. François ...

Ian Collie is an Australian producer whose TV documentary, The Shadow of Mary Poppins , was the inspiration for the feature Saving Mr. Banks, starring Emma Thompson as author PL Travers and Tom Hanks ...