![]() Walt Disney with expert attention to detail. ![]() Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks delivers extraordinary sense of character as he renders Mr. Here, we have an American icon that plays an American icon. This untold backstory of how Travers' classic work of literature made it to the big screen provides the substance for John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. However, when sales of her book begin to dwindle and with a rough economic climate ahead, Travers reluctantly agreed to travel across the Atlantic to hear what the impresario had to say. Persistent to go 'fly a kite up to the highest heights'. For those two decades, the proud author refused to depart with her precious work in fear of Hollywood's mutilation of it and repeatedly told Mr. ![]() Disney had initially sparked twenty years prior. Who ever would have thought that this was to be the start of such a great legacy? In 1961, Walt Disney invited P.L Travers, the author of "Mary Poppins", to his California studios to discuss the possibility of acquiring the rights to her book - a discussion that Mr. This boy had a piece of paper with a mere sketch of a mouse upon it. Once upon a time (seeing as though that's how all fairy tales seem to start), there lived a boy from Missouri, called Walt Disney. ![]()
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