Tom Hanks's 'Saving Mr Banks' to close BFI London Film Festival

Saving Mr Banks will close the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday, October 20.

Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson star in the Disney drama, which centres on the making of Mary Poppins and the relationship between the book's author and Walt Disney. The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock is directing the film based on a script by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith.

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Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in 'Saving Mr Banks'

Saving Mr Banks producer Alison Owen said of the closing night slot: "Saving Mr Banks is very much about British manners versus American values, as Pamela Travers and Walt Disney battle over the rights to Mary Poppins, so it feels absolutely fitting that the LFF Closing Night should be our European Premiere, and we feel very honoured.

"We hope Pamela Travers would approve wholeheartedly. We filmed the London sequences in the street where Pamela lived, and London was both the start of the journey for Mary Poppins and for our movie, so we feel like we're beginning in the right place."

Clare Stewart, BFI Head of Exhibition and Festival Director, admitted that she found the news "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and described the film as "a magical ode to the brilliance and volatility of the two very different creative forces".

Tom Hanks's Captain Phillips, about the hijacking of a US container ship by Somali pirates, will open the festival on October 9.

Watch the trailer for Saving Mr Banks below:

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