RON HOWARD:Movies are a lot of work.
So I felt like, the story was simply calling for it.
As a director, I love exploring.
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But for me, I love the medium, I love the work.
Its fun, its thrilling, taking some creative risk is a blast.
So this movie is a pretty good example of that from a technical filmmaking standpoint.
And I have to say, we had blast on this movie, we really did.
It wasnt like oh, we gotta, were obliged to do another one of these movies.
Lets go tackle it in as exciting a way as we can imagine.
Were you a fan of his work before helmingInferno?
No, not beyond whatever high school or college reading I did.
Its everything youve seen repeated in every great shock moment in a cool horror film.
Its not every day you see a hero crippled nearly beyond recognition.
Thats one of the things that [Tom Hanks, who plays Langdon] loved about the character.
Heres Robert Langdon with a genius level IQ, and yet hes locked.
Hes not sure what role he has in all this.
That uncertainty creates so much suspense when you know this character is used to having all the answers.
The other thing that was fun was that Felicity Jones character is every bit Langdons intellectual equal.
The female characters this time seem a little more complex than in previous franchise films.
I thought so too.
Its a collision of geniuses.
Shooting took you all over the world: Istanbul, Budapest, Turkey, Florence, and Venice.
Did you receive any pushback from local authorities or officials about shooting in any specific locations?
Its always a careful process of navigating these places and these historic locations.
In some instances you have to replicate portions of it, and we have done that in the past.
In this case, not so much.
We got a lot of cooperation everywhere we went and that allowed us to shoot faster.
It was a look and feel that I worked with in the Formula 1 movieRush.
In the first film, the Catholic Church took issue with certain aspects of the storyline.
Did you find in the filming ofInfernothat there was anything that could potentially raise similar criticisms?
So you know what?
I think thats why audiences seeing this movie will feel theres an immediacy to this.
Is there any chance you might direct a fourth Robert Langdon film should Dan Brown write the source material?
Well, I think Im allowed to say that Dan Brown is working on another Robert Langdon novel.
Hes a friend, hes a wonderful guy, hes an executive producer on the movie.
But hes always very secretive about what it is that hes doing.
So I dont have any insight.
Is that your way of saying yes to the possibility of directing another installment?
