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,
The Da Vinci Code mathematical message written beside his body and a pentagram drawn on his chest in his own blood. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's "The Templar Revelation" (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. "The Da Vinci Code" provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail