We knew it of course, they are going to make a movie out of the book. Tom Hanks will star as Langdon. Ron Howard will be the director. What do you think of Tom Hanks as the main character?

i dunno what i think of tom hanks being the main character but when is it coming out...i wonder if the movie will be as good as the book?????????

I like Tom Hanks, but that's not who I picture in that role. I kinda like your idea of Mark Wahlberg for Langdon, but... actually, a 40-year old love-child of Hanks and Wahlberg would work pretty well.

Kate Beckinsale--yeah, she's not French, but I've have a mad girl-crush on her since Cold Comfort Farm, so I wouldn't complain about her playing Sophie. Sophie is quite the Mary Sue character, so, whomever they come up with will probably work for me.

I have just finished reading Da vinci code & I think its a masterpiece. There are details which are otherwise proved fictional by you on basis of some books, now how can you ask us to believe those books & not the story told by Dan. See my point is that you have been too quick to disregard everything written in this book, & you are perceiving it the way you want to. Give him a break man!!! You are so against this novel that you are now even against the choice of the movie cast. Tam Hanks is an awsome actor & his uniqueness lies in the fact that he moulds himself according to the character (proved by his role in ""cast away" and most recent "the terminal" both being completely different). My point is that it takes guts to come up with a book like this & we must not try to just undermine the author's efforts, its the 21st century man, think for yourself. Atleast leave the movie alone not try to shred it to pieces even before its release.

Nidhi - actually there have been many, many books on this same topic So it doesn't take guts. In fact another author claims that Dan Brown stole most of his content and there seems to be some basis for that claim.

My whole point is that people SHOULD think for themselves, instead of blindly believing what this author says is true. I told people to go look at the photos of the Louvre and count for themselves the # of panes. If you think you can't trust photos of a pyramid over Dan Brown's claim of 666 panes, well then, you can always simply go there yourself. These are real world situations we're talking about. You don't have to trust a book. Go and learn.

Katarzyna - I suppose we'll see. I've seen a ton of Tom Hanks movies and respect him as an actor - but there is something to be said of actually matching a character. Danny DeVito is a brilliant actor too, but there are some roles that aren't meant for him to play. You can't make a racehorse out of a rabbit. Each person has their own talents in their own areas.

I thought I had heard that Nick Cage was going to be in the Movie. Am I mistaken?

well an intresting read alltogether, just finished it after 11 hrs straight so i'm pretty red eyed, but i guess looking at the factual errors made by the author he could have done better, anyway , i hope the movie comes out fine , the choice of tom hanks aint right, somehow he always strikes me as having a confused look on his face even when he's enlightened and doesnt seem like langdon to me atleast , and nidhi , sab ke baate sunne chahiye na, you cant rant about giving him a break , he's creatign a part of history here to be archived and stored. Who knows a few thousand years from now "the dan brown code" could be the next bestseller??

I'm getting confused now, just found this site
http://www.fortressinternational.com/france_paris.html
Which says Russel Crowe will be in the film, no mention of Tom Hanks which would suggest that Mr Crowe has the leading role.

imdb.com shows Hanks as Langdon.

I reckon they are going to have make a lot of changes to the movie. The book is a treasure hunt where clues are uncovered, and a huge secret is slowly revealed by means of people lecturing each other.

Every reader now knows the 'big secret', deciphering anagrams won't make good cinema, and Langdon is little more than baggage, not really hero material.

It is Sophia who rescues him from the police at the Louvre, she send them on a wild goose chase, she disarms the Louvre guard, she gets her & Langdon out the building, she lays the false trail at the rail station, she who pulls the gun on the taxi driver and hijacks his cab, she who has to drive it because he can't, she who works out the correct bank code.

Meanwhile Langdon's bright idea takes them and the cryptex straight to the baddy and into danger.

It is Teabag who disables Silas, with his crutches(!) while Langdon is on the floor.

Langdon doesn't even solve the series of clues left by Sauniere. It is up to Mary Chauvel to lead him by the hand and explain it all to him.

Not much of a hero, methinks. Less Russell Crowe, more Woody Allen!