Tom Hanks Set To Star As Mister Rogers

Rob McLean(CNN Money) — Tom Hanks has a question for moviegoers: “Won’t you be my neighbor?”
TriStar Pictures announced Monday that the actor will play Fred Rogers in “You Are My Friend.” It’s a film based on the friendship between the iconic children’s TV host and a journalist assigned to write about him.
Rogers’ PBS program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” aired from 1968 to 2001. He died in 2003.
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