French film star Jean Reno ("Mission: Impossible", "Ronin") has joined Tom Hanks in Columbia Pictures' upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling thriller "The Da Vinci Code" says The Hollywood Reporter.
Reno will play detective Bezu Fache to Hanks' famed symbologist Robert Langdon in the film version of the novel that has dominated the best seller list for almost two years.
Scheduled to begin production in 2005 for a May 2006 release, "The Da Vinci Code" will be directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman.
Reno can next be seen in this year's upcoming remake of "The Pink Panther". Thanks to 'Cryptomer'.
