Mr. Rogers Headed for the Big Screen: Who Could Play Him?
By Tim Nudd 05/05/2013 at 09:05 PM EDT Clockwise from top left: Ty Burrell, Tobey Maguire, Steve Carell, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and Matthew Broderick Getty; Startraks; Getty; WireImage; INF; REX USA It won’t be an easy sweater to fill.”There’s only one person in this whole world like you,” Fred Rogers liked to say on his long-running children’s TV show. But now the difficult task begins of finding someone just like Mr. Rogers – or who can at least capture his essence – for an upcoming biopic.A film about Rogers, who died in 2003 at age 74, is in the works at Treehouse Pictures based on a script by Alexis Jolly, a staff writer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Deadline.com reports. Read More