Not too long ago, my grandmother’s best friend sent me a copy of the new Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol.  Turned out she’d gotten an extra copy, so I got the spare one.  Anyway, I’m reading this, and every time I see “Robert Langdon” crop up–and he crops up a LOT–I can’t help but think of Tom Hanks.

And apparently, neither can Tom Hanks.

They haven’t even started casting for the probably inevitable conversion of Dan Brown’s newest The Lost Symbol, but already Tom Hanks has expressed interest in coming back to reprise the Langdon role.

In fact, the only real question mark right now is Ron Howard returning to handle directing duties.  But considering that Angels and Demons cleared three hundred fifty million worldwide, I think Columbia will be more than willing to sign just about any reasonable offer that comes out of Howard’s camp to get him on board.

No word about release dates–no word about START dates–so keep it here for all the latest.