This news has made the internet very happy. Tom Hanks has signed on to star as Mr Rogers in a new biopic titled You Are My Friend, based on the relationship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod, who got to know the star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood while writing a profile of him for Esquire magazine in 1998
This isn’t the only movie about Rogers in the works. A documentary called “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” will open in theaters in June.