FLORENCE, ITALY – Dan Brown, the author of thrillers as The Da Vinci Code, said he would like Italian actor Roberto Benigni to be in the film adaption of his new book ‘Inferno’ during a press conference in Palazzo Vecchio.
“It would be a great honor to have him in the movie – said Brown -. He’s a great Dante scholar”. Brown’s earlier novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were eventually turned into Hollywood films that had huge success at the box office. His 2009 book The Lost Symbol, the third in the series, is currently being turned into a movie in which Tom Hanks is expected to pick up his role as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon.
Today, at the event #repidee2013 in Palazzo Vecchio, Brown paid tribute to the city and its most famous son, mediaeval poet Dante Alighieri, whose work “The Divine Comedy inspired me for Inferno.In some ways I think Dante invented hell,” Brown said.
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