Saving Mr Banks is one of the November movies that I am already looking forward to, as Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson team up for the first time.
Hanks is set to play Walt Disney, while Thompson will play Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers in the John Lee Hancock directed film.
There are a few exciting looking biopics on the horizon through the autumn, and Saving Mr Banks promises to be one of the best.
Here is the brand new UK trailer for you to take a look at:
The last time we saw John Lee Hancock in the director's chair he was at the helm of The Blind Side; the movie that saw Sandra Bullock win a Best Actress Oscar.
He returns with another biopic project, but this time he has not penned the screenplay; Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith have brought the story to life.
A fantastic cast are on board alongside Hanks and Thompson, as Paul Giamatti, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson and Jason Schwartzman are all also on board.
When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favourite book, P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins, he made them a promise - one that he didn’t realize would take 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.
For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge.
He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.
It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.
Saving Mr Banks is the film that will close this year's BFI London Film Festival and I can't wait to see it.
Saving Mr Banks is released 29th November.
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