Saving Mr. Banks
 

I think this is the first I've heard about this movie. Apparently it's the story of how Walt got the uptight PL Travers to give him the rights to make Mary Poppins.
Here's the trailer.

Word on the script was that it was completely fantastic.

How well that gets translated into a movie? We'll see. But based on the incredible response to the script I'm eager for it.

Points of concern:

- John Lee Hooker as director. His high-shine middle brow stuff has only barely worked for me so far and his version of The Alamo is my favorite among that, The Blind Side, and The Rookie so my taste may be suspect.

- Disney doing Disney. Everybody is saying that it isn't hagiography and that he really isn't the center of the movie. And I hope that's true. But it also smells of the DNC doing a production about Obama.

- That accent. I don't know why Hanks is doing it, but it apparently wasn't in an attempt to sound like Walt Disney. Emma Thompson's accent is fine.

Heheh, there was a long discussion about it on the LoT-substitute Lounge of Tomorrow Facebook page yesterday. Most of that, naturally, was about the "mistakes' of filming in modern-day Disneyland - with period costumes but not bothering to change, for example, modern-day (since 1984) Fantasyland out for period-appropriate 1963 Fantasyland.

Some LoTters were at the park on one of the days they were filming there.


It's a must see for me. The trailer seemed charming. I liked Schwartzman and Novak as the Sherman bros.

I had no idea there was a LoT-substitute Lounge of Tomorrow Facebook page.

:eek: Private Group LoT, how did you get missed?

Apparently it is not that uncommon a thing. I did not know about it either.

Ask to join. Lounge of Tomorrow at Facebook.com - the Lounge of Tomorrow - of Tomorrow ... Today!

Uh, your other identity is a member - but I've now invited you to join

I tried to add you, but apparently I can't because you chose to ignore your last invitation - maybe check your "other" mail box - or just keep ignoring us