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Tom Hanks & Ron Howard returns for the next Dan Brown movie 'Inferno'

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UPDATE, 1:52 PM: Tom Hanks and Ron Howard, the star and director, respectively, of Sony’s first two tentpole movies based on Dan Brown’s novels, are returning for Inferno, we’ve learned. Hanks had been expected to reprise his role as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon for The Lost Symbol, the third novel in Brown’s book series. But Howard had bowed out of the project, which is now on the back burner, saying he wanted to produce it with Brian Grazer and their Imagine Entertainment but not direct. Now we’re hearing he’ll return for Inferno.

PREVIOUS BREAKING…Inferno was released in May and is the fourth Robert Langdon book written by The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons author Dan Brown. Sony, which has film rights to the franchise, has just set a December 18, 2015 release date for it. David Koepp, who wrote Angels & Demons, is aboard to write the script. The news means Brown’s third installment of the thriller series, The Lost Symbol, will not be the next movie for Sony. Danny Strong had been set to write that adaptation in March 2012 and the expectation was the film would be directed by Mark Romanek after Ron Howard opted out of directing as he had done on the first two pics. Not much has been heard of that project since, and now Sony is leapfrogging it for Inferno.

Inferno the novel is set in Europe and inspired by Dante, author of the 14th century poem The Divine Comedy, the author’s journey through hell, purgatory and heaven. The protagonist is once again is Langdon, the Harvard symbologist at the heart of all of Brown’s books. The franchise is an important one for Sony: Da Vinci Code grossed $758 million worldwide in 2006, and while Angels & Demons dropped off to a $486 million worldwide gross in 2009, that is still a big box office haul.
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http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/son...r-december-2015-will-come-before-lost-symbol/
 
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What are the Dan Brown books like? I've been thinking of getting into them.
 
Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I really like these films. I know the critics hate them, but I've always enjoyed watching them. So I'll be looking forward to this.
 
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these films are the poster child for "let's get characters talking crazy amounts of exposition between each other even tho they are actually talking to the dumb audience", wich kinda bothers me from a filmmaking standpoint (and i'd expect better from ron howard), but they're okay.
 
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SalsaShark said:
I read 2, I didnt like them. There were no breaks, exhausting to read.
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I am 100% with you here. I feel like I'm alone when I say this. I read the Da Vinci Code and started A&D but gave up. Every chapter ends on a cliff hanger, every one, and the dialog is all "edge of your seat" perfect line/perfect retort like dialogue. Didn't like any of them because of it.
 
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The Albatross said:
I am 100% with you here. I feel like I'm alone when I say this. I read the Da Vinci Code and started A&D but gave up. Every chapter ends on a cliff hanger, every one, and the dialog is all "edge of your seat" perfect line/perfect retort like dialogue. Didn't like any of them because of it.
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yup, made for movies. Just that they deserve a crappier director.

jtb said:
skipping the lost symbol?
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they're very clearly doing whatever. I mean Angels & Demons was like, a sequel film instead of a prequel, right?
 
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The Albatross said:
I am 100% with you here. I feel like I'm alone when I say this. I read the Da Vinci Code and started A&D but gave up. Every chapter ends on a cliff hanger, every one, and the dialog is all "edge of your seat" perfect line/perfect retort like dialogue. Didn't like any of them because of it.
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That sounds like it gets tired quick. Thanks for the info guys.
 
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Talladega Knight said:
what is the ending that might have people up in arms? and the twist?
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The entirety of the book see's Langdon running from a shadowy agency. You are led to believe they want to kill him, and that they are holding an older woman hostage and are going to kill her.

Then, the big reveal is that they are actually trying to protect him from the woman who has been aiding him this entire time, and the old woman wasn't being held hostage, she was taking meds which made her loopy. They ask you to do some serious mental gymnastics here to make sense of it all.

The ending is that someone releases a virus into the wild that is supposed to reduce the human population. In effect it renders 1/3 of the planet sterile, has been released for weeks by the time they actually follow the clues and get to the site, and there is no cure, making it all a big theatrical performance with their discovery having zero impact on the outcome of events.
 
obin_gam

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Yey! Really liked both A&D and DaVincis both the books and the movies. They are cheap mysteries but they are entertaining nonetheless. Psyched for this!
 
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I hope it's like Angels and Demons!

Where do we go now? Hey, that statue is pointing that way, lets go there because there is no way that statue has been moved in the slightest in the past half millenium. We're here, now what? Another pointing statue!
 
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8byte said:
The entirety of the book see's Langdon running from a shadowy agency. You are led to believe they want to kill him, and that they are holding an older woman hostage and are going to kill her.

Then, the big reveal is that they are actually trying to protect him from the woman who has been aiding him this entire time, and the old woman wasn't being held hostage, she was taking meds which made her loopy. They ask you to do some serious mental gymnastics here to make sense of it all.

The ending is that someone releases a virus into the wild that is supposed to reduce the human population. In effect it renders 1/3 of the planet sterile, has been released for weeks by the time they actually follow the clues and get to the site, and there is no cure, making it all a big theatrical performance with their discovery having zero impact on the outcome of events.
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There is also the twist that confuse you on who is the lover of the scientist. That make sense reading it in a book but they will have to change it a bit in the movie
 
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Inferno wasn't very good but I guess I'd say it was probably better than The Lost Symbol. The writing in his books is really poor but I think he tells a decent tale typically so I keep reading them. I'll be curious to see what happens in the next one after the events of Inferno.
 
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t26 said:
There is also the twist that
confuse you on who is the lover of the scientist.
That make sense reading it in a book but they will have to change it a bit in the movie
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I've spoilered your spoiler in case someone is a book reader who hasn't finished it yet. I admit that this twist got me. I wasn't SHOCKED necessarily by the way it was framed later but I didn't suspect it at the time.
 
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QuantumBro

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Was Ron Howard inspired by this image?
Dan-Brown-Inferno.jpg
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Zero315

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8byte said:
Would prefer The Lost Symbol. Inferno's ending is going to leave a lot of movie goers upset.
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Really? I'm only about a third of the way through Inferno, but man, Lost Symbol's ending was just bad. Actually, The Lost Symbol was just bad.
 
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8byte said:
The entirety of the book see's Langdon running from a shadowy agency. You are led to believe they want to kill him, and that they are holding an older woman hostage and are going to kill her.

Then, the big reveal is that they are actually trying to protect him from the woman who has been aiding him this entire time, and the old woman wasn't being held hostage, she was taking meds which made her loopy. They ask you to do some serious mental gymnastics here to make sense of it all.

The ending is that someone releases a virus into the wild that is supposed to reduce the human population. In effect it renders 1/3 of the planet sterile, has been released for weeks by the time they actually follow the clues and get to the site, and there is no cure, making it all a big theatrical performance with their discovery having zero impact on the outcome of events.
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sounds confusing
 
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