Tom Hanks's Mr. Rogers Film Gets an Official Title
Tom Hanks taking on the role of Mr. Rogers in the upcoming biopic is such wonderful casting, and I’m looking forward to seeing how he ends up bringing Fred Rogers to life in this film.
Sony Pictures has announced that the film will be called A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which is a perfect title for the film.
The film is inspired by the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and award-winning journalist Tom Junod. In the story, “a cynical journalist begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write a profile piece on the beloved icon and finds his perspective on life transformed.” You can read the piece that he wrote here.
The movie is also being directed by Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl) from a script written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue, and Noah Harpster. The director had this to say about the film in a previous interview:
“It’s a story for our times, a story about kindness and family connection and trying to tap into our better self. God knows we need that right now! In the research for the movie, the writers found that more people than they could possibly count credited Mr. Rogers with changing their lives…. [It’s about] one man who’s in a critical point in his life — becoming a new father, having issues with his own father — and meeting Mr. Rogers to write a piece about him, thinking it’s going to be a bit of a puff piece, but it ends up changing his entire life.”
I’m looking forward to this movie and I’m curious to see how Hanks ends up playing the character, especially how he captures the soft-spoken voice of Mr. Rogers. What do you think of Hanks’s look in the film?
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is set to hit theaters on October 18, 2019.
Source: Variety