Screenwriters Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster detail how personal experiences with fatherhood led to their new film, ABeautifulDayMovie
For screenwriters Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, their decade-long journey writing the script for the Fred Rogers moviebegan with something as innocuous as a child admiring the cardigan-wearing icon on a computer screen.
While researching Rogers and all of the people that the TV personality had connected with in his life, Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster discovered Tom Junod's 1998article, "Can You Say … Hero?" in which Junod interviews Rogers and goes on to develop a friendship with the children's TV host. But the scribes didn't give up. They continued to talk to Isler, who eventually introduced them to Joanne Rogers, the widow of Fred Rogers. After more than a year of courting them, Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster sent a very long letter to Isler in 2015 that broke down exactly how they'd approach the story. It was after reading that letter that Isler agreed to grant them the rights.
Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster found the best way to show Fred Rogers teaching kindness to a writer estranged from his father was Rogers' own format. "From the onset, Noah and I wanted to write a movie that was an episode ofThe two admit that the most challenging parts of the story to write were the other relationships, such as the journalist Lloyd Vogel's with his estranged alcoholic father, Jerry .
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