Tom Hanks explains why the Da Vinci Code and other Robert Langdon films were “hooey”

Tom Hanks is generally recognized as one of our greatest living actors. He has played many iconic roles, won more than one Oscar and generally found good parts in good films that critics love. He is an actor who typically avoided getting into the blockbuster franchise’s movie machine, but there was one exception, the three times he played Robert Langdon in films based on Dan Brown books love you Da Vinci’s code”. According to most critics, these weren’t the best moments for Hanks, and Hanks seems to agree, calling the movies “hooey”.

Da Vinci’s code” and its two suites, Angels and Demons Yes Hell, are not the best commented works of the actor. They are, however, among his more profitable works than him, with Da Vinci’s code” being Hanks’ highest-grossing live-action film in the world . It has often been seen that there is a clear line between films that are made to be commercially successful and those that are “art” and Hanks admits that uh that those films were largely commercial endeavors, and now he doesn’t seem to have a very positive opinion of them. Hank said …

Da Vinci’s code” it was the largest book in the world in the early 2000s, so it was destined to receive the film adaptation treatment. Seeing Tom Hanks in the lead was a bit of a surprise, as we’ve never seen him in this kind of summer popcorn movie before. It certainly worked, as the film made a lot of box office money and spawned some sequels. The most recent, Hellreleased in 2016.

Tom Hanks doesn’t seem to hate movies or regret making them. He calls them “delicious treasure hunts”, but he certainly seems to understand what movies were and what they weren’t. And Hanks has no problem making films that focus more on box office receipts than anything else. There’s a place for it, but the actor ultimately says Langdon’s films weren’t “good deals”. He continues…

Hell it still grossed $ 220 million worldwide against a budget of $ 75 million, in particular thanks to the international success, so it wasn’t exactly a flop, but Hell he struggled at the box office and it was certainly a huge box office drop of $ 758 million Da Vinci’s code”. This is what you call “good trading”.

So if you expected it Tom Hanks and company would adapt the Robert Langdon book they skipped , this seems unlikely. It seems unlikely that Tom Hanks will be involved in another large commercial venture again. It seems unlikely we’ll see him in a Marvel or Star Wars movie, but who knows. It could happen.