![]() ![]() Paramount Pictures was balking at its $50 million budget. It’s important to remember that Hanks took a big gamble with his payday for 1994’s Forrest. It was reported extensively at the time that, before the cameras started to roll, Hanks agreed to take a lower salary upfront in return for a bigger share of the back end (first-dollar gross). Quite a risk, considering this was considered a quirky film that took nine years to get made. ![]() According to data banks, Hanks made $70 mil from Forrest Gump in gross and profit participation $40 mil from Dreamworks / Paramount’s Saving Private Ryan including gross and profit participation, $20 mil from Warner Bros.’ The Green Mile and $20 mil from 20th Century Fox’s Castaway. Don’t fret, Forrest! I’m told that Sony’s Da Vinci Code is now Tom Hanks’ biggest movie at the box office, passing his previous record-setter Forrest Gump from Paramount. Reportedly, the actor’s salary for the religious thriller was $18 million, plus a perk of profit participation. He is also described as a very athletic swimmer who is in great shape. My other mental image was of Sam NeillĪctually in Angels and Demons he seems to drive a stick shift fine, so he lost that skill somehow in the next year. No, Robert Langdon is primarily a thinker. Certainly, he is not a take-charge sort of man. I got the feeling he was unfamiliar with firearms, not particularly physically fit and uncomfortable with a stick shift. Remember he was terrified of the notion of jumping out of the Louvre window. Reading the book, my picture of Langdon was never as a physical hero. Are they going to rearrange the streets of Paris so they fit into the book's order, or will they have Paris be arranged properly? Will they claim that the Louvre Pyramid has 666 panes, even though the movie will undoubtedly feature scenes WITH the pyramid visible, where viewers can clearly count that this is incorrect? Only time will tell! Perhaps one of the most important questions is whether the movie will give a more accurate view of history and reality, or if it will further perpetuate some of the errors that the book contained. What's funny of course is that he isn't even French, but he keeps getting cast as Frenchmen. He's a great actor, and that seems a good fit. Couldn't they find ANY French woman in her 30s to play this part? That's pretty depressing to those of us in our 30s, that we are too old to play our own age group!įor the cop Bezu Fache, Jean Reno seems to be the chosen one. That only makes her 27 when they filmed the movie. So he's at the top end of the age scale.įor Sofia, the French female lead has been set to Audrey Tautou, that seems a good choice, but Audrey was born in 1978. Tom was born in 1956, making him just turning 50 in 2006. So I feel "let down" that it went to Tom Hanks. Russell Crowe was also being spoken with to take this part and he would have been equally brilliant, judging from his past performances of men who were both very bright and also physically capable. ![]() He would have been my ideal pick here, too. I was really thrilled by Mark Wahlberg in The Italian Job as a man who was very sharp, savvy and intelligent but also able to physically carry through on doing the job. a man who is intelligent and enjoys research, but also enjoys the physical aspect of research. The Langdon of the book is supposed to be an Indiana Jones professor type - i.e. I'm not sure that I buy this connection as much. Tom Hanks will be handling Langdon's character. Since The Da Vinci Code will involve a fair amount of both, that's a good first step. To me that shows that he's good both with the action-motion movies as well as the inner turmoil-thinking types. He was the producer for A Beautiful Mind and The Alamo, amongst other things. This was also a key casting decision in Name of the Rose - that the actors reflect very vividly the mix of ethnicities found at the monestary. It is critical that the cast reflect that multi-dimensionality. Each character is rather stereotyped, but they are definitely not all "American". The book features international characters who roam all over Europe. As soon as The Da Vinci Code became a best selling book, we knew it would turn into a movie. ![]()
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