Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Ron Howard team up once again, this time for the big screen version of "The Da Vinci Code" based on the enormously popular best-selling novel by Dan Brown. For those unfamiliar with the book, Hanks stars as Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist called in to help the French police decipher a riddle left at the scene of a murder. Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) soon find themselves involved in a baffling mystery involving the works of Da Vinci and the secret society of Priory of Sion."The Da Vinci Code" Trailers
Casting Poll - Was Tom Hanks the Right Choice?
"The Da Vinci Code" Credits, Photos, Release Date and News
My initial reaction to the news of Hanks being cast as Langdon was disbelief. After reading the novel, I know that personally Hanks never popped into my mind as the right actor for the role. It's not that he doesn't have the skill to pull off the part. That's not an issue. It's simply that he doesn't match how I pictured Langdon while I was reading the book. Now that I've seen the trailer, I'm semi-okay with the casting decision. And despite any misgivings about the cast, "The Da Vinci Code" is one of the movies I'm most looking forward to seeing this year.
More on "The Da Vinci Code"