Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Better than my script for the exciting backstory in the production of "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" anyway. No studio will touch it... too controversial to this day.> They're all crazy, Toony. It's a great script. And in this day and age everyone knows the 'Helen Hayes' secret anyway...
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Yet, "Finding Neverland" starred Johnny Depp, and is very well written, acted and well-received.<< I know that a lot of people liked it, but I just didn't care for it. I'm generally not a huge Johnny Depp fan, so that didn't help, but the story just wasn't engaging to me. The characters were all pretty forgettable, and after finishing it, I felt like I'd just spent 2 hours I'd never get back.
Originally Posted By oc_dean There is a place for easily-followable "Block Buster Summer" flicks ..... And THERE IS a place for films like The King's Speech, Iron Lady, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy, The Age of Innocence, Howards End, and a story on PL Travers.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Naturally .... it is very possible Disney could place the wrong producer, director, sriptwriters into the mix. Look at the Bewitched film with Nicole Kidman - BLEECH!!! So ... I hope they are carefully crafting this together .... It could be very well done. If they were to get Streep ... YOU KNOW .... she could pull out all the stops! She has over, and over again .. throughout her career. Still trying to picture Tom Hanks as Walt. Isn't this the very first time Walt will be portrayed by another actor? Those of us who've followed his life very closely .... If they don't get just the right actor to play him ... with an excellent make-up job ... it could be a nail-biting experience on the big wide screen.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <n't this the very first time Walt will be portrayed by another actor> Wasn't Walt portrayed in "The Aviator'?
Originally Posted By oc_dean Just reading the comments to the main link to this story - <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/disney-acquiring-black-list-script-saving-mr-banks-on-making-mary-poppins/" target="_blank">http://www.deadline.com/2012/0...poppins/</a> ........ and ... GEEZ LOUISE!! The ugly, NEGATIVE tripe from some people! What the F is wrong with them?! You just want to smack people in the head, and tell them to go for a walk in an open field .. and smell some flowers! Anyway ... I'm getting more excited about this .... One person suggested Giovanni Ribisi to play Walt. He seems to have the right facial structure. Yes? No? And for Dick Van Dyke ..... Zach Efron? And somebody else mentioned Benedict Cumberbatch. After a quick Google search of both .... Benedict may be my choice. What do the rest of you think?
Originally Posted By oc_dean And back to Anne Hathaway as Julie ... that idea is growing on me .. more and more. Anybody ever see Anne's satire as Mary Poppins on Saturday Night Live a few years ago?
Originally Posted By oc_dean Here you go ..... <a href="http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=416034" target="_blank">http://www.videolog.tv/video.p...d=416034</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Just thought of Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) for George/David Tomlinson .... but he is rather tall.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Wasn't Walt portrayed in "The Aviator'?<< Just went through the entire cast for The Aviator - no. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/fullcredits" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...lcredits</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Michael Sheen? <a href="http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2010/11/05/previews/Michael%20Sheen-BBC-018397.jpg" target="_blank">http://images.starpulse.com/pi...8397.jpg</a> to <a href="http://cdn.images.2.ranker.com/list_img/1/115956/full/miranda-cast-and-actors-in-this-movie.jpg?version=1323316811000" target="_blank">http://cdn.images.2.ranker.com...16811000</a> Could be done! Like your choice.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Pretty good. Michael is currently 43. David Tomlinson, at the time of shooting for Mary Poppins ('63) David was 46. So ... easier to make a younger person look a bit older ... than the other way around. Which may make my Martin Clunes idea obsolete. As he'll be 51 this November. (Too tall anyway. ;-)
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA The movie where Walt is portrayed by an actor is called RKO 281 -- about Orson Welles and the making of "Citizen Kane." The actor is Roger Allam -- who has also been in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"
Originally Posted By oc_dean <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/rko-281?before=1313174605" target="_blank">http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/r...13174605</a> Not exactly the best depiction of Walt at the time Citizen Kane was being made. Doesn't appear to be a role that lasted beyond a few minutes .... So .. it's safe to say ..... If a movie on the 14 year development of Mary Poppins happens ... This will be the very first time Walt is properly portrayed throughout a full length feature film.
