The Da Vinci Code : A better choice for Langdon.

I was never a fan of Hanks as Langdon. I get that he and Howard are buddy buddy since they basically made each other stars with Splash but I never bought him as the lead character. Harrison Ford he aint.

Tim Olyphant would have been 36 in 2006 when the Da Vinci Code came out. If i could go back and retroactively cast someone different for the role of Robert Langdon, he is my choice.

Hanks was solid and effective as Langdon but a younger man could have allowed for a more physically robust performance as well as perhaps a little romance with Audrey Tautou's character Sophie. Matt Damon would have been my choice.


The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.

Jason Bourne as Robert Langdon ??? Hanks is good as Langdon and plays him as a very smart academic and not as some Indiana Jones type hero. As to the OP's choice,Timothy Olyphant, not a bad idea, but I don't think he's ever had the responsibility of headlining a big movie such as this was in its day.

Agreed, spookyrat. Hanks haa the intelligence and charm in his screen persona to make him a convincing Langdon. Langdon was never a traditional action hero, so casting him as one would have missed the point, and a romantic entanglement with Sophie would merely have clouded the narrative. I don't understand why people want to keep pushing films into obvious pigeon-holes.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.