SAVING MR. BANKS Trailer, Starring Emma Thompson & Tom Hanks

After the first official image surfaced yesterday, Walt Disney Pictures has dropped the first trailer for the charming Saving Mr. Banks. The untold true story of bringing Mary Poppins to the big screen, focuses on Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) twenty-year struggle to acquire the rights to author P.L. Travers’ (Emma Thompson) novel Mary Poppins and the rocky relationship that formed between the two. Well, judging from the trailer, Saving Mr. Banks could be a significant film for Hancock who has never really turned out much that registered in the Oscar race. Thompson should certainly be in the Oscar race for lead actress, with Hanks in contention for Best Supporting Actor. The supporting cast includes Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Annie Rose Buckley, Ruth Wilson, B.J. Novak, Rachel Griffiths, and Kathy Baker. The film will be released in select theaters on December 13th before going wide December 20th, 2013. Check out the trailer below. Here’s the official synopsis:

When Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Disney’s desire to bring her beloved character to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario’s concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers’ reflects back on her childhood in 1906 Australia, a trying time for her family which not only molded her aspirations to write, but one that also inspired the characters in her 1934 book. None more so than the one person whom she loved and admired more than any other—her caring father, Travers Goff, a tormented banker who, before his untimely death that same year, instills the youngster with both affection and enlightenment (and would be the muse for the story’s patriarch, Mr. Banks, the sole character that the famous nanny comes to aide). While reluctant to grant Disney the film rights, Travers comes to realize that the acclaimed Hollywood storyteller has his own motives for wanting to make the film—which, like the author, hints at the relationship he shared with his own father in the early 20th Century Midwest.