Inferno (2016 film) taste." Inferno (2016 film) Inferno is a 2016 American action mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by David Koepp, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Dan Brown. The film is the sequel to "The Da Vinci Code" (2006) and "Angels & Demons" (2009), and is the third installment in the "Robert Langdon" film series. It stars Tom Hanks, reprising his role as Robert Langdon, alongside Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Foster, and Irrfan Khan. Together with the previous film, it remains Hanks' only live-action sequel. Filming began on April 27,
Criticism of The Da Vinci Code in "The Da Vinci Code". On April 11, 2005, novelist Lewis Perdue sued Brown and his publisher Random House for plagiarizing his novels "The Da Vinci Legacy" (1983) and "Daughter of God" (1999), claiming "there are far too many parallels between my books and "The Da Vinci Code" for it to be an accident." On August 4, 2005, District Judge George B. Daniels granted a motion for summary judgment and dismissed the suit, ruling that "a reasonable average lay observer would not conclude that "The Da Vinci Code" is substantially similar to "Daughter of God." Any slightly similar elements are