Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Directed by John Lee Hancock
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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What critics compared Saving Mr. Banks to
John Lee Hancock ( The Rookie , Saving Mr. Banks ) first wrote the screenplay for The Little Things in the early 1990s for Steven Spielberg before deciding to direct it for himself, and there are elements from the heyday of serial killer movies, catapulted into critical and commercial favor with Silence of the Lambs in 1991 and Seven in 1995, that his story somewhat unashamedly borrows — particularly the latter’s juxtaposition of an older, more measured cop and a younger, hungrier one ready to cut corners if needed to get the job done.
John Lee Hancock, late of The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks , is exactly who I had in mind.
Director/writer John Lee Hancock—whose other films include Saving Mr. Banks , The Blind Side , The Rookie and The Alamo —certainly knows how to put little things, all the details, into crafting a well-built movie story.
Things is reportedly a passion project for Hancock ( The Blind Side , Saving Mr. Banks ), who completed the screenplay more than 30 years ago Early on, names like Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood were attached to direct; he eventually took the reins himself, but kept the script's 1990 setting.
Unsurprisingly, for a filmmaker like Hancock, who has made his bread and butter in “films for the heartland” like The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks , his attempt at stretching his filmmaking chops is dusting off a script he wrote back in the early 90’s and getting it in front of a camera.
Layering in uncertainty, Hancock ( The Founder ; Saving Mr. Banks ) takes a page out of Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel, Esq.
That screenwriter, by the way, is Kelly Marcel, writer of Saving Mr. Banks and adaptor of the Fifty Shades Of Grey movie, with direction by Andy Serkis, who last directed a live action-ish Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, and is best known as the guy in the spandex ping pong ball suit in the featurettes for the Lord Of The Rings and Planet Of The Apes movies, frequently seen discussing the act of jumping around like a chimp with the kind of reverence generally reserved for painting the Sistine Chapel.