Trailer for SAVING MR. BANKS with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney

Disney has released the first trailer for their upcoming new film Saving Mr. Banks, which features Tom Hanks playing the legendary Walt Disney.  The film is based on a true story that centers on Disney trying to convince the author of Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), to let him turn her book in a movie.

I've been looking forward to this movie since it was first announced. I'm a huge fan of Hanks and all of the actors involved with the film. Mary Poppins is one of those classic Disney films that I grew up watching all the time, and it will be interesting to see long road it took to the big screen. 

When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite 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.

The movie is set to be released on December 20th.

Thanks to MSN