'The Rascal' was at a talk with best-selling author Dan Brown the other day who spoke out about Imagine Entertainment's planned adaptation of his already famous "The DaVinci Code" about a murder investigation which leads to uncovering of all sorts of ancient conspiracies and religious secrets:
"Brown said that he was wary of selling the rights to the book. He was first courted by Harvey Weinstein, but found his meetings with him to be distasteful. Eventually he agreed to sell the rights to Ron Howard. Brown indicated that Howard was deciding between Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks for the part of Robert Langdon.
Tom Cruise was trying to acquire the rights but is NOT under consideration by Howard. Although Brown has a veto right over the choice of lead character, he said that he will not overrule Howard, saying: “how am I supposed to tell an academy award-winning director that he’s wrong when I don’t know anything about movies?”
If Brown could choose anyone, he said he’d like to see Ralph Fiennes play Langdon, but said that he knew that Fiennes wasn’t a big enough B.O. draw to be seriously considered for the part. The budget is set at $100+ million and filming will be on location in Paris and England".
Thanks again to 'The Rascal'
