Mary Poppins Author Hated Movie. Nonetheless Travers expressed her. Vidals 1968 bestseller was a critically acclaimed work about a young man who undergoes surgery and becomes a woman.
This according to Poppins star Dick Van Dyke. An author-filmmaker dispute so legendary that they made an entire movie about it. The author who created Mary Poppins had a spoon full of HATRED for everyone affiliated with her movie.
It reached a gross profit of 1022 million and earned 31 million in North American rentals during its initial run alone.
The story behind the making of Mary Poppins is to be told in a Hollywood film with Emma Thompson earmarked as Pamela Travers the author who signed away the rights to Walt Disney only to regret it. After all it is one of the most successful films in history. Travers hated the film Adaption of her book so much she spent most of the premiere crying and refused to let Disney touch the rest of the series. The Highest Grossing Film on 1964.