Ben Foster has signed on to star in the Inferno film adaptation. Foster’s character, a villainous scientist named Bertrand Zobrist, has an obsession with Dante Alighieri’s famous poem.
This project, based on Dan Brown’s 2013 novel, marks the return of Tom Hanks as the symbologist Robert Langdon. Ron Howard, the director behind both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, will also come back to take the helm.
Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter: “Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, and Irrfan Khan also are in the cast. The story sees Langdon drawn into a conspiracy to unleash a deadly plague centered on Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ the 14th century epic poem about the nine circles of hell.” Click here to download a free eBook of The Divine Comedy.