> Posted on 12/28/2018 8:08:15 PM PST by Eddie01
Hearts around the world were warmed earlier this year when Sony Pictures released its first image of Tom Hanks suited up for his role as Fred Rogers in the upcoming movie about Rogers’ incredible life of gentle love for children. Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers is an equation hardwired to explode hearts around the world with delight, so this movie jumped to the top of a lot of people’s Most Anticipated Movies of 2019 lists. And now, it has a title.
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Yep, the movie will be called It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. That makes a lot of sense, even if it’s maybe not quite as good a title as Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which was the title of the Fred Rogers documentary that came out earlier in 2018.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor set a high bar for Mister Rogers movies, providing an astonishing, intimate look at a very unusual man who was able to deploy his unique sensitivity and gift for communication towards making children feel safe, valued and loved through a television screen. So It’s a Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood has book shoes to fill, but there’s reason to be optimistic.
The movie will be directed by Marielle Heller, who’s made a career out of quiet, excellent little movies like the Melissa McCarthy-starring Can You Ever Forgive Me? and 2015’s very good Diary of a Teenage Girl (Heller has a thing for long movie titles, it seems.) The script is being written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, who garnered attention for their work on the Amazon Prime original series Transparent.
During his life, Rogers made no secret of his Christian convictions, and how they motivated him to do the work that made him a household name across America. He was a Presbyterian minister with a divinity degree, and he viewed his work as a children’s show host in pastoral terms. “The space between the TV screen and whoever is watching is very holy ground,” he said once, and he took that belief seriously. We’ll see if the movie based on his life follows suit this October.
As soon as he stopped doing bawdy comedies and doing “serious” stuff, he started to think his turds didn’t smell.
#16. I thought the donkey was the best actor in “Bachelor Party”. /sarc, heehaw, heehaw!
Hey, at least they didn’t entitle it “Mr. Roger’s Hood”.
No idea where Castaway fell in the timeline of that but he became someone who, when I saw them listed in the cast, I said “Meh” and flipped the channel.
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I think it was when he did “Philadelphia” when he became insufferable. When Hollyweird started canonizing Sodomites is when it officially lost its mind.
I actually think Tom Hanks will do a great job. He really is good in these roles. My mom worked with Walt Disney and she was amazed at how Hanks captured him.
I never liked Mr. Rogers as a child. And I was a shy, timid child! He seemed far too scared and shy for even me. The way he talked to us as though we were terrified of our own shadows really creeped me out. I hated his female voice impressions and that stupid cat. I just never connected with him at all.
Tom Hanks is a really nice, normal guy for being a film star. I interacted with him online in a different kind of forum and he was so normal, like anyone. I know we might not agree politically but he’s a decent person, a good person.
I always thought he was a pedophile.
NO. NO. JUST NO.
Reminds me of the white horse in Dean Wormser’s office in ‘Animal House’. Same results.
Nice find!
He was the furthest thing from that you moron.
adults and kids all ran thru showers together years ago and speedos were the suits serious swimmers wore
Two movies for Mr. Rogers, but nothing for Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit or Tom Terrific... Looks like the fix was in for the strange one all along.
And that Lady Fairchild looked like a drunk with a swollen red nose. And the creepy human cast! Yuck! It was the kind of kiddie show adults thought we should watch.
And Springsteen, who contributed to the film’s soundtrack, also became a boorish, hypocritical SJW.
Bummer.
I thought he was always a boorish, hypocritical, rich Communist asshole who hates America. Never liked him or his music.
Like I said, I never liked the guy. He was like a strange, kid-friendly, creepy uncle that my parents always told me to stay away from.
And yes, I did think he was a closet pedophile.
So now that I've repeated my opinion, what kind of ad hominem attack are you going to use on me?
When I was a kid Mr. Rogers was one of those shows I’d surf into and stop and look at for a second or two to wonder WHO THE HELL WATCHES THIS DAMN THING!? His soporific quality fascinated me.
Zuckerberg is cracking down.
Oops! Should be FR, not FB.
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