If you are looking for a potential Oscar contender then Saving Mr Banks is perhaps one of the films you should be putting your early money on.

Directed by John Lee Hancock the movie follows author P.L. Travers as she travels to Hollywood to discuss with Walt Disney the film adaptation of her novel Mary Poppins.

Emma Thompson is set to play Travers in the film, while Tom Hanks will play Walt Disney.

Now, we all know how the Academy loves a biopic - throw in the fact that Disney and Mary Poppins is loved by just about everyone - and you have a real contender.

This is one of the January movies that I am most looking forward to, as I can't wait to see Thompson and Hanks share a screen together.

Ruth Wilson, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti and Jason Schwartzman are all also on the cast list.

Hancock is back in the director's chair for what is his first film since the success of The Blind Side back in 2010.

Saving Mr Banks is released 17th January.


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