Sony Pushes Ron Howard's Film Adaptation of INFERNO to 2016

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Sony Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have shifted Ron Howard's INFERNO, the third film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling series, to 2016.

Tom Hanks returns as 'Robert Langdon', in the Howard-helmed film. It was previously scheduled for a December 18, 2015 release, and would have GONE up against STAR WARS: EPISODE VII.

Hanks and Howard previously partnered for Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE and ANGELS & DEMONS.

David Koepp, who also wrote the big screen script for ANGELS & DEMONS, wrote the screenplay.

INFERNO is officially described as: "In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered."