Saving Mr. Banks
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• Banks is a 2013 period drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith
• Centered on the development of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the film stars Emma Thompson as author P
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• Travers and Tom Hanks as filmmaker Walt Disney, with supporting performances by Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, and Colin Farrell
• Named after the father in Travers' story, Saving Mr
• Banks depicts the author's fortnight-long meetings during 1961 in Los Angeles, during which Disney attempts to obtain the screen rights to her novels
• Essential Media Entertainment and BBC Films initially developed Saving Mr
• Banks as an independent production until 2011, when producer Alison Owen approached Walt Disney Pictures for permission to use copyrighted elements
• The film's subject matter piqued Disney's interest, leading the studio to acquire the screenplay and produce the film
• Principal photography commenced the following year in September before wrapping in November 2012; the film was shot entirely in the Southern California area, primarily at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, where a majority of the film's narrative takes place