for all of you breathlessly following the casting of the da vinci code movie...well, for me then: tom hanks has been cast in role of robert langdon, havard symbologist.

interesting facts from the article: the movie's producer, brian grazer, originally wanted to use the plot of the book as a storyline for the third season of "24" (!!!), but dan brown wouldn't sell the rights to a piddly tv show. also, they plan on using foreign actors to fill the foreign roles, ie for hottie cryptologist sophie neveu and french cop bezu feche (jean reno is on the shortlist. huzzah). apparently a "recent oscar winner" wanted to play sophie (i'm guessing nicole kidman; can you imagine her attempt at a french accent? eesh), but they turned her down.

you can read tommy's hilarious interpretation of the da vinci code here.