More Casting News On The DaVinci Code Amelie’s Audrey Tautou Joins Tom Hanks January 25th 2005 05:20am | Posted by: Robert Falconer HNR Senior Editor French actress Audrey Tautou is set to star in her first American film, playing French cryptologist Sophie Neveu in the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling—though historically challenged—novel, The DaVinci Code. In the movie, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci—clues visible for all to see—yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret—and an explosive historical truth—will be lost forever. From The Hollywood Reporter: “Audrey Tautou is ready to make her American film debut. The French actress, starring in ‘A Very Long Engagement’ and best known for playing the title role in ‘Amelie,’ is in negotiations to star opposite Tom Hanks in Columbia Pictures' ‘The Da Vinci Code.’ Ron Howard is directing the screen adaptation of the Dan Brown best seller. Tautou would play French cryptologist Sophie Neveu. It is her grandfather's murder in the Louvre that brings her and a Harvard professor (Hanks) together to search for his killer as they also try to unravel a secret that involves the foundation of Christianity. Jean Reno also is on board, playing Detective Bezu Fache. Brian Grazer and John Calley are producing. Production is scheduled to begin in mid-2005 with an eye for a May 19, 2006, release. Matt Tolmach and Andrea Giannetti are overseeing for the studio.” Source: HNR In: Movie News |Visit the HNR Forums

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