Rated 1.4 out of 5 This saga is off to a very bad start! Will Tom Hanks be in it again?

Ron Howard’s Angels and Demons airs tonight on France 3. In this case, we will talk about a possible fourth film adapted from the literary work of Dan Brown, in which Professor Robert Langdon is played on the screen by Tom Hanks.

The saga of Robert Langdon currently consists of 3 films, all directed by him Ron Howard and carried by Tom Hanks. Released in 2006, The Da Vinci Code with Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellen (rated 1.4/5 stars by the press) grossed $760 million at the international box office after 3 years. Angels and Demons Starring Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, and Stellan Skarsgård (2.4/5 press rating) grossed $485 million, and in 2016, Inferno starring Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, and Felicity Jones (2.2/5 press rating) grossed $220 million. million. at the worldwide box office.

Already in 2011, studios are considering adapting the novel for the screen.missing symbol“, the third literary adventure of the professor of symbolism at Harvard. However, the producers decided to help adapt Inferno, the fourth work in the Robert Langdon series.

Published in 2009, “missing symbol“‘s Dan Brown Set in Washington, D.C., Robert Langdon begins a race against time to find Freemasonry’s best-kept secret.

Very quickly, Ron Howard announced that he would not be directing the film. Mark Romanek (Wolfman, Lock & Key) is approached. But the feature film project was eventually abandoned in favor of a series in the form of a prequel.

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard left “The Lost Symbol.”

In an interview with the site CinemaBlend In 2016, Tom Hanks explained that he had been working with Ron Howard on an adaptation of The Lost Symbol for some time to assess whether it would work. But the two people came to the conclusion that the plot was too reminiscent of previous films in the franchise and did not want to continue the search.

The Oscar winner explains: “We worked on The Lost Symbol for a while to see if there was anything we could do, and in the end, the issue of Washington, DC and the Freemasons was very reminiscent of the theoretical dilemmas of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. So we told the producers that we didn’t think there was anything to keep there..”

Therefore, the producers decided to pay for the one-season series, the action of which develops before the feature films. Developed by screenwriters Dan Dworkin and Jay Beatty, The Lost Symbol is set to air in 2021 and will see Ashley Zuckerman reprise the role of Robert Langdon. The cast also includes Valorie Carr, Susie Eddie Izzard and Beau Knapp.

Will Tom Hanks return for a fourth feature?

However, there is little chance that Tom Hanks will return for the fourth opus. In June 2022, the actor told the New York Times that he had no fond memories of filming and that the trilogy was purely commercial.

Both sequels are garbage. The Da Vinci Code is bullshit.

“Oh my God, it was like a business venture. Both sequels are garbage. The Da Vinci Code is garbage.” The American states before adding : “It’s a treasure hunt that’s as historically reliable as James Bond spy movies. But we promised the audience good fun. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to do good business, but Inferno’s box office results proved to us that we weren’t doing that well.”

Grossing $220 million worldwide on a $75 million budget, Inferno was a disappointment and helped lead to The Lost Symbol being adapted into a miniseries.

Therefore, Tom Hanks’ Robert Langdon should not return to the cinema.