http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 21:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/09/19/saving-mr-banks-starts-shootin.html http://boingboing.net/2012/09/19/saving-mr-banks-starts-shootin.html#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:05:36 +0000 Jamie Frevele http://boingboing.net/?p=182101 Saving Mr. Banks follows the 14-year effort by Disney as he tried to convince P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins, to allow him to make a movie out of her book. It will flash back and forth from Travers' childhood with her father (on whom Mr. Banks was based), to the 1940s, '50s, and early '60s, when Disney was trying to make Mary Poppins into a movie that Travers ended up hating. Also starring are Emma Thompson (as Travers), Rachel Griffiths (as the aunt who inspired the character of Mary Poppins), Colin Farrell (as Travers' father), Ruth Wilson, Paul Giamatti, BJ Novak, Jason Schwartzman, and Bradley Whitford. Shooting began today, and among the locations are Disneyland and Burbank's Disney Studio. Well doesn't that all sound practically perfect in every way? (via Screen Rant, Empire)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/09/19/saving-mr-banks-starts-shootin.html/feed 13