John Lee Hancock In Foretells Model Of Mary Poppins Pic Saving Mr. Banks

EXCLUSIVE: The Blind Side helmer John Lee Hancock is at early talks with Disney to direct Saving Mr. Banks, the Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of techniques Wally Disney fought against a 14-year courtship to help Australian author P.L. Travers to promote him rights to produce a film from Mary Poppins. Disney is near a deal to obtain the Black List script, which would be to establish with producer Alison Owen of Ruby Films. Disney seems an all-natural place for that script, taking into consideration the studio has many rights from making the 1964 classic film that starred Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson, the 2nd who carried out Mr. Banks inside the film. This is often a hot project — names like Tom Hanks to see Disney and Meryl Streep to see Travers come in the wind — and Disney’s intention is always to put it into production this year. A person's heart from the script arises from how close Travers felt to her story from the nanny with magical forces. Mary Poppins was highly personal, and reflected struggles within their existence and her relationship along with her father, who died when she was 7. Disney finally convinced her to permit him increase the risk for film, but she was prickly completely for the finish. While Mary Poppins was famous immediately, she hated the animated sequences inside the film a great deal they rejected to promote any kind of many other actively works to Disney. Hancock recently attached themselves to produce and direct The Partner at New Regency, using the John Grisham best-selling novel. He's repped by CAA.