Tom Hanks is Mister Rogers, coming to a neighborhood near you October 2019. pic.twitter.com/2TP3eiPUCx
— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) September 27, 2018
Nobody else alive could do it, of course. And it may be a little hard for Tom Hanks… oh, who am I kidding? Tom Hanks could totally play Mister Rogers. Straight up.
His face looks wrong. I think the problem is that Mr Rogers was 143 pounds for most of his life, and Tom Hanks is probably a good 50 pounds heavier.
Hanks seems to have a pretty good facility for voices and dialects, though. If he can nail the voice, I think that will be enough.
Weight gain and loss in Hollywood is usually controllable, since the resources to control an actor’s diet and exercise are available.
There’s enough of a market for the movies that the beancounters can authorize that cost.