Tom Hanks will star in the Mr. Rogers biopic "You Are My Friend" according to a new report from Variety. Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl) will direct the film from a script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.

The story draws from the real-life friendship cultivated between Rogers and award-winning journalist Tom Junod. The story is described as a cynical journalist reluctantly accepting an assignment to write a profile piece on the much-beloved TV personality and "finds his perspective on life transformed."