Casting Call for the DaVinci Code-The Movie - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Dawson70 · 12-06-2004, 09:58 PM

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7198

So far...Ron Howard will Direct the film and he has choosen Tom Hanks to play the lead. Tom Hanks and Russel Crow were the two in the running but Crow backed out.

I trying to picture if Tom Hanks fits the role.
Anyone else see this as a match?

Willravel · 12-06-2004, 10:24 PM

Well if no one else wants it, I guess I'll step up to the plate.

RogueHunter65 · 12-06-2004, 11:35 PM

I think that Robet Langdon (sp?) could be played by Tom Hanks. I think that a the role would be better filled by Jude Law. Thats who i'd cast.

WillyPete · 12-07-2004, 03:05 AM

Anthony Head. (Giles from buffy.) But that would be falling for a stereotype.

RogueHunter65 · 12-07-2004, 10:15 AM

WillyPete, now that you mention it Anthony Head would fit the character very nicely. I didnt think of him before. When reading the book I pictured someone who looks extremely similar to him, just a little buffer though.

WillyPete · 12-07-2004, 10:37 AM

Yeah, he's the first person I think of when considering a 'bookish' character.

I suffer from stereotyping too.

Xell101 · 12-07-2004, 12:35 PM

I've never seen Tom Hanks do a bad job with anything. Every time my expectations are low, he does a good job at it. Anything he gets in he seems to fit.

Dawson70 · 12-07-2004, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Xell101

I've never seen Tom Hanks do a bad job with anything. Every time my expectations are low, he does a good job at it. Anything he gets in he seems to fit.

I agree with this. Tom has done so many different roles from a dying AIDS laywer to a shipwrecked castaway to a Apollo 13 commander to a hitman in the Irish Mob.

He molds into each roll.
My issue is that I have already read the book. I guess this will a good test for Hanks.

Personally, I pictured Harrison Ford in this role, but I guess it would be too Indiana Joneish.........

Derwood · 12-07-2004, 07:05 PM

I think Tom Hanks is all wrong. I would cast a lesser known actor, like Robert Forrester or the guy who plays Grissom on CSI.

How about Audrey Tatou as Sophie?

-Ever- · 12-07-2004, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Derwood

How about Audrey Tatou as Sophie?

Definitely someone like her. I was thinking a little taller and longer faced though...

Locke7 · 12-08-2004, 06:43 AM

Tom will work perfectly. He can act anything. Famed symbologist should be that far of a stretch. Oh and Kate Beckinsale for Sophie, just change the accent to French, she would be perfect.

jvwgtr · 12-08-2004, 08:35 AM

No way is Tom Hanks right...I was picturing more of a Harrison Ford type.
Hanks is too goofy looking. Crowe would have been a better pick.
Hell, I'd take Tom Cruise over Tom Hanks.

trickyy · 12-08-2004, 08:38 AM

yeah, nothing like an imaginary occupation as an acting challenge
the movie really should be a campy comedy like the book
gramps and sophie sure had a weeeird relationship
anyway, gramps could be ian macgandalf
evil british guy could be patty stewart
how about monica bellucci for sophie. (not nearly young enough, but it's monica bellucci.)

they need to work jean reno in somewhere.
wow, he's in the pink panther "prequel" starring steve martin

(not a goofball)

-Ever- · 12-08-2004, 09:45 AM

For some reason, I kept on picturing the British friend to be the old rish British guy from Crank Yankers

(maybe some of you know what I'm talking about...)

M.T. Promises · 12-08-2004, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by -Ever-

For some reason, I kept on picturing the British friend to be the old rish British guy from Crank Yankers

(maybe some of you know what I'm talking about...)

Niles Standish

trickyy · 12-08-2004, 02:44 PM

kept picturing this guy as aringarosa

also i think jack black would be a good bumbling french cop

begforme2 · 12-08-2004, 07:14 PM

I think Johnny Depp could do a good job with the role. I'm getting tired with Hanks. He's in everything now a'days.

-Ever- · 12-08-2004, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by trickyy

also i think jack black would be a good bumbling french cop

I don't think he'd be the best for that role, cause if he were in the movie, I wouldn't buy a ticket....

-Ever- · 12-08-2004, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by M.T. Promises

Niles Standish

Yes, that's him alright

I think I pictured him throughout the book because I listened to it on CD when I drove from SF to SD and the reader sounded like him when he spoke with an English accent.

Architeuthis · 12-09-2004, 06:13 PM

Characters in the books by Dan Brown are so cardboardish that the most fitting cast could be hired in Southpark

12-06-2004, 09:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dawson70 Here to Help My Fellow TFP'er Location: All over the Net....(ok Wisconsin)	Casting Call for the DaVinci Code-The Movie http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7198 So far...Ron Howard will Direct the film and he has choosen Tom Hanks to play the lead. Tom Hanks and Russel Crow were the two in the running but Crow backed out. I trying to picture if Tom Hanks fits the role. Anyone else see this as a match? __________________ "I Finally Finished My Goal....You Can Too! Yippie Ki Ya...

12-06-2004, 11:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
RogueHunter65 Insane Location: Boston, MA	I think that Robet Langdon (sp?) could be played by Tom Hanks. I think that a the role would be better filled by Jude Law. Thats who i'd cast. __________________ I suffer from amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I have forgotten this before

12-07-2004, 10:15 AM	#5 (permalink)
RogueHunter65 Insane Location: Boston, MA	WillyPete, now that you mention it Anthony Head would fit the character very nicely. I didnt think of him before. When reading the book I pictured someone who looks extremely similar to him, just a little buffer though. __________________ I suffer from amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I have forgotten this before

12-07-2004, 07:05 PM	#9 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	I think Tom Hanks is all wrong. I would cast a lesser known actor, like Robert Forrester or the guy who plays Grissom on CSI. How about Audrey Tatou as Sophie? __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

12-08-2004, 09:45 AM	#14 (permalink)
-Ever- Junkie Location: San Francisco	For some reason, I kept on picturing the British friend to be the old rish British guy from Crank Yankers (maybe some of you know what I'm talking about...) __________________ Embracing the goddess energy within yourselves will bring all of you to a new understanding and valuing of life. A vision that inspires you to live and love on planet Earth. Like a priceless jewel buried in dark layers of soil and stone, Earth radiates her brilliant beauty into the caverns of space and time. Perhaps you are aware of those who watch over your home And experience of this place to visit and play with reality. You are becoming aware of yourself as a gamemaster... --Acknowledge your weaknesses--

12-06-2004, 10:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Well if no one else wants it, I guess I'll step up to the plate.

12-07-2004, 03:05 AM	#4 (permalink)
WillyPete Addict	Anthony Head. (Giles from buffy.) But that would be falling for a stereotype.

12-07-2004, 10:37 AM	#6 (permalink)
WillyPete Addict	Yeah, he's the first person I think of when considering a 'bookish' character. I suffer from stereotyping too.

12-07-2004, 12:35 PM	#7 (permalink)
Xell101 Junkie	I've never seen Tom Hanks do a bad job with anything. Every time my expectations are low, he does a good job at it. Anything he gets in he seems to fit.

12-08-2004, 06:43 AM	#11 (permalink)
Locke7 Insane	Tom will work perfectly. He can act anything. Famed symbologist should be that far of a stretch. Oh and Kate Beckinsale for Sophie, just change the accent to French, she would be perfect.

12-08-2004, 08:35 AM	#12 (permalink)
jvwgtr Completely bananas Location: Florida	No way is Tom Hanks right...I was picturing more of a Harrison Ford type. Hanks is too goofy looking. Crowe would have been a better pick. Hell, I'd take Tom Cruise over Tom Hanks.

12-08-2004, 08:38 AM	#13 (permalink)
trickyy ►	yeah, nothing like an imaginary occupation as an acting challenge the movie really should be a campy comedy like the book gramps and sophie sure had a weeeird relationship anyway, gramps could be ian macgandalf evil british guy could be patty stewart how about monica bellucci for sophie. (not nearly young enough, but it's monica bellucci.) they need to work jean reno in somewhere. wow, he's in the pink panther "prequel" starring steve martin (not a goofball)

12-08-2004, 02:44 PM	#16 (permalink)
trickyy ►	kept picturing this guy as aringarosa also i think jack black would be a good bumbling french cop

12-08-2004, 07:14 PM	#17 (permalink)
begforme2 Tilted Location: UMBC, MD	I think Johnny Depp could do a good job with the role. I'm getting tired with Hanks. He's in everything now a'days. __________________ we've been running from day one never even thought to ask why or what from

12-09-2004, 06:13 PM	#20 (permalink)
Architeuthis Upright	Characters in the books by Dan Brown are so cardboardish that the most fitting cast could be hired in Southpark