Tom Hanks as Mr. Rodgers in You Are My Friend

I knew and loved Fred Rogers. He's no Fred Rogers.

Oh hell naw

Wtf? Hold me David, I'm scared!!

Tom will do Fred justice he has the smarts, sensitivity and chops to pull it off.

I’m damn near wearing that same outfit today.

I'm sure Hanks will do a fine job and get nominated again. I just wish they'd leave some things alone and allow us to have our memories without spreading on a layer of hollywood frosting. Not necessary. He was an original, a one off. Leave it that way.

I will not rest until I have portrayed every single real-life famous admirable mensch-type figure!

He looks as authentic as Mr. Rogers as he did as Walt Disney.

Mr. Rogers had herpes??

Forrest Rodgers. NO FANK YOU!

I hope its being made on a low budget because I don't think anyone outside of the US is familiar with the man that it is based on.

I wonder if TH is actually proud that he is the most middle brow actor of his generation?

He's always just TH playing a character. You never forget it is TH pretending to be someone else.

Not true R11. It was always broadcast in Canada.

So many of Hanks movies include him urinating. Please let this one be pee-free.

I won't be seeing it. They have to monetize and ruin everything, but I don't have to buy in.

Tom looks really good with all the weight loss.

A first-rate documentary has already been made about Fred Rodgers. This is bullshit and I'm sick of Hanks playing deities.

That's because Banks wants to be a deity.

I will never stop making money off dead people!

I'm getting kind of tired of Hanks playing all these biographical roles....he always seems like he's playing himself and I never truly believe he is the person he is portraying.

I want Hanks to play some really slimy no-good motherfucker. Think it'll ever happen?

He'd be playing himself then R21.

Closest he came was Road to Perdition, R21. He was an anti-hero, but the fact is that he was a gangster who killed anyone his boss (Paul Newman) ordered him to.

no. just no.

He looked nothing like Walt Disney in that film.

Walt Disney was an evil fuck. We can thank him for the mass delusion distraction with his multiple, shiny piles of shit he peddled as 'entertainment' while our democracy died. Thanks, Mickey.

Gag me with a spoon.

Charlton Heston used to be the go-to guy for Mr. Bigger-Than-Life; Tom Hanks is now the go-to guy for Mr. Nice. Sorry, but I'll take Chuck in his loincloth any day.

Tom Hanks is a national treasure.

The people of Pittsburgh seem happy with Hanks and they inew him best.

r13, I disagree. In both Forrest Gump, and Philadelphia he completely gets lost in the roles. I don't think anyone could have pulled off Forrest Gump the way he does. A truly original character, and groundbreaking performance.

He doesn't necessarily look like Rodgers here, but I can picture a higher pitched Forrest Gump sounding somewhat like Rodgers.

He played a slimy character in Cloud Atlas. Also played a hero in Cloud Atlas, but he did a great job at the slimy part. He was rather slimy in Ladykillers as well.

R14 OK then. Outside of North America then.

This was Tom Hanks' greatest role.

Learn to spell, dumbass

D-U-M-B-A-S-S

Dumbass.

He looks like the Pedophile we always suspected Fred Rogers to be but he wasn't.

[quote]He's always just TH playing a character. You never forget it is TH pretending to be someone else.

How dare you!, r13?

Well, it's definitely not going to be a documentary, because Mr. Rodgers wasn't a mean drunk with fuzzy rightwing leanings....

Why should Mr. Rogers be white? He was a black man; Eddie Murphy played him . More Hollywood racism.

If Hilary Swank married him she would be Swallowing Hanksl

Sorry for being out of the loop, but why the sudden influx of interest in Fred Rogers? They made that documentary about him last year, there's this version with TH being made, and Google had a Fred Rogers doodle recently (which I don't has been done before). When I kept hearing about FR all of a sudden, I assumed that he had died recently or something but turns out he died 15 years ago.

Maybe the darkness of our current political climate makes people yearn for simple, gentler, more innocent times and feel-good stories.

I don't know why this movie is necessary, though, when there is a widely acclaimed recent documentary you can watch instead. I hate biopics as a rule.

Hi Tom at R4.

[quote]I don't know why this movie is necessary, though, when there is a widely acclaimed recent documentary you can watch instead. I hate biopics as a rule

It's also weird that they decided to go with calling the TH movie "You Are My Friend," which is frankly odd and creepy-sounding, because they couldn't call it "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (which actually was Fred Roger's catchphrase, and the title of the documentary from last year).

Why couldn't they have just called it "Mr. Rogers" or "The Fred Rogers Story" or something.

"You Are My Friend" is the title of one of Mr. Rogers' songs.

Fred Rogers' corpse wants you all to leave him alone and let him rest already. Damn!

Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow & meow.

Meow?

who the fuck is "Mr. Rodgers"? how the fuck can they sell this outside America?

Was Mr. R gay? I think so.

Mr. R in his twink years

A crew member died working on this pointless movie. Clearly it's cursed.

Was Mr. Rogers a homosexual?

Trailer.

Out in November.

Will they bring up Fred Roger's bisexuality?

Hard to believe that anyone will pay $15 to go to a movie theater to see this.

Waiting for someone on Youtube to cut the trailer as a horror movie a la Mrs. Doubtfire in 3,2,1....

This movie seems kind of pointless.

The person who authored the linked tweet in that article about his bisexuality is only 21 years old and there's no way in /fucking hell/ that they would know who he is.

I thought the trailer was kind of drab. Redditors are going nuts about how emotional it made them, but it seems like a fairly standard film.

Almost didn't recognize Matthew Rhys in that trailer.

If Hanks is such a good guy, why did he raise such a horrible creature as his son?

I loved Diary of a Teenage Girl and Can You Ever Forgive Me, Marielle Heller's two earlier movies, so I can't wait for this

^^ Hanks isn't a good guy, he's a raging alcoholic with anger issues in his private life.

This will be a nice change from all of the endless superhero and animation and sequel garbage at the movies. I look forward to taking my mom to see this over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Jfc, the trailer made me cry. No way am I going to see that in a theater.

People were reportedly walking out of theaters in tears when the documentary about Mr. Rogers ran last summer, R67.

Marys!

OP's photo makes me HORNY as HELL!