![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The last thing I would do is tarnish a story I love," Disney tries to reassure her. “You don’t understand what she means to me.” “I won’t have her turned into one of your silly cartoons,” she insists during their first meeting about the Mary Poppins character. He knows he’ll need it, since Travers seems to chew nails for breakfast, her personality coiled as tight as the curls in her hair. (In real life, Travers had already signed a contract when she came to California to meet with the team, but in the movie, she is shown as only agreeing to a two-week collaboration.)ĭisney flies her from London to Los Angeles, prepared with his charm offensive. Novak), as well as Disney himself, as they scripted the movie. Based on a true story but with a fair amount of dramatic license, the movie recreates the combat between Travers and Disney’s creative team: screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and songwriting brothers Richard and Robert Sherman (Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Banks, Travers finally buckles due to insurmountable financial troubles. Travers, was a tough and cantankerous woman who abhorred the very idea of her work being “Disneyfied,” and refused the mogul’s repeated offers to buy the rights to her work.įor Walt Disney, things didn’t always go so smoothly. For Walt Disney, things didn’t always go so smoothly even in his own “Magic Kingdom.” For example, it took him nearly 20 years to fulfill a promise to his daughter and make a movie based on the popular Mary Poppins books that his daughter adored. ![]()
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