Inferno (2016)
- The incredible score for Inferno was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Before Tom Hanks was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- Ron Howard originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
Inferno is a 2016 American mystery thriller directed by Ron Howard, the third Robert Langdon film. Tom Hanks returns as the Harvard symbologist, who awakens in a Florence hospital with amnesia and disturbing visions of a plague-ravaged world. With the help of his doctor Sienna Brooks, played by Felicity Jones, Langdon follows a trail of clues connected to Dante's Inferno through the art and architecture of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul, racing to prevent a bioterrorist from releasing a virus designed to halve the world's population as a solution to overpopulation.
The globetrotting locations were the franchise's most visually spectacular asset β Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, Venice's St. Mark's Basilica, and Istanbul's Hagia Sophia were filmed with reverence for their architectural grandeur. Inferno earned $220 million worldwide on a $75 million budget, the lowest gross in the Langdon franchise.
