Next, and last, up in Trailer Tuesday (an event so rare the Mayans predicted it would never happen) is a film I've been looking forward to some a while. Saving Mr. Banks is the real story of the twenty year effort Walt Disney made to badger P.L. Travers for the rights to adapt her children's books about a nanny called Mary Poppins (don't tell me if he succeeded or not, I don't want to spoil the ending). In the film, Disney is played by Tom Hanks, and Travers is played by Emma Thompson. As awards-bait as that may sound, I'd watch those two tear apart a phonebook and use it to insulate a small den, or work room.
The film also stars just a pile of talent, like Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Rachel Griffiths and Ruth Wilson. That, and I'm a sucker for any movie whose basis is "film can be magical." Something about that ideal tugs at the mechanical vacuum where my heart should be. Instead of a automated system of valves, and a dedicated little gerbil that has to be replaced every two months.