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MARY
POPPINS TAKES FLIGHT IN THE WINTER ISSUE OF DISNEY
TWENTY-THREE
EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEWS WITH SAVING MR. BANKS
STARS TOM HANKS AND
EMMA
THOMPSON HIGHLIGHT A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE
WORLD’S
MOST FAMOUS NANNY
Plus, D23.com online exclusives include
video of the 1964 Mary Poppins
premiere,
galleries of the film’s matte paintings,
and an interactive map of the Walt Disney Studios
featuring locations used in Saving Mr. Banks.
BURBANK,
Calif. – November 4, 2013 – To celebrate the release of Saving Mr. Banks and the upcoming 50th anniversary of Mary Poppins, D23: The Official Disney
Fan Club has dedicated the entire winter issue of its flagship magazine, Disney
twenty-three, to our beloved nanny. The publication, available
exclusively to Gold Members of D23, includes exclusive interviews with Saving Mr. Banks stars Tom Hanks, Emma
Thompson, and Bradley Whitford, as well as
director John Lee Hancock. It takes readers behind the scenes of the making of
this spectacular new film, which opens this Christmas and looks at the creation
of Disney’s Mary Poppins and the sometimes
combative but respectful relationship between the character’s creator, P.L.
Travers (Thompson), and Walt Disney (Hanks).
Disney twenty-three’s Winter
issue also offers a look inside the fascinating life of P.L. Travers, with a personal reminiscence by her friend, author Brian
Sibley, whom she once told, “I don’t feel for a moment that I invented her. I
feel visited by her.” And original film composer Richard M. Sherman, visual consultant
Tony Walton, and choreographers Marc Beaux and Dee Dee Wood offer exclusive
insight into the creation of the 1964 Disney classic, which will officially
celebrate its 50th anniversary next August.
Also
included in the Winter issue of Disney
twenty-three:
- A
first-person account of the creation of the stage musical Mary Poppins from Disney Theatrical
Productions president Thomas Schumacher
- “Elements
of Fun,” looking at 50 years of unique “Mary merchandise”
- An
in-depth look at the film’s groundbreaking special effects
- A
walk down the red carpet for the Mary
Poppins premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
All
D23 Members are invited to visit www.D23.com, where the fan club is kicking
off its year-long celebration of Mary
Poppins’ 50th anniversary with a
unique video reconstruction of the Mary Poppins world premiere,
containing five minutes of never-before-released material. Although the
original telecast of the event appears to have been lost forever, this
22-minute segment includes audio from the premiere’s two separate interview
locations, combined with all the surviving color film and black-and-white
newsreel footage—re-creating the excitement and glamour of this stellar
premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on August 27, 1964.
Other features planned for D23.com’s
online celebration include:
- Extensive Mary
Poppins galleries, including a look at the film’s breathtaking matte
paintings.
- An interactive map of the Walt Disney Studios with
photo locations from Saving Mr.
Banks
- Rarely heard audio files from the making of Mary Poppins
- An in-depth Mary
Poppins production timeline
- A look at the sodium screen/traveling matte process,
which gave the film its unique visual look
- An exclusive interview with Mary Poppins visual
consultant Tony Walton
Also in the Winter
issue, D23 Gold Members will receive a
reproduction of the ticket mailed to invitees for the Mary Poppins premiere
at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Disney twenty-three, which is delivered
directly to fans’ doorsteps, is offered exclusively to D23 Gold Members as a
benefit of their membership.
