![]() The film, which will be released Friday in the US, drags Dante's poem kicking and screaming - quite literally in the case of some of the hellish visions we see - into the modern day.ĭirector Ron Howard poses with actors Felicity Jones and Tom Hanks at a publicity event for "Inferno" in London this month. Just like the previous Dan Brown adaptations, " Inferno" stars Tom Hanks as brainy art history professor Robert Langdon and introduces Felicity Jones as the equally brainy Doctor Sienna Brooks. The latest artist to take on this somewhat intimidating text is director and actor Ron Howard, who has just turned Dan Brown's best-selling thriller "Inferno" into a movie set primarily in Dante's hometown of Florence, Italy. ![]() Dante Alighieri's influential poem "Inferno" defines our modern understanding of hell and has been interpreted, reinterpreted and repurposed by numerous artists since it was written in the 14th century. ![]()
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