Tom Hanks Calls ‘Da Vinci Code’ Trilogy ‘Hooey,’ Not ‘Good Commerce’ at the End

Tom Hanks has cracked “The Da Vinci Code”…and dubbed it “hooey.”In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oscar winner Hanks called the Ron Howard-helmed trilogy “as cynical as a crossword puzzle” and an outrageous adventure story ripe for the box office.

The franchise kicked off in 2006 before spurring two sequels, “Angels & Demons” and “Inferno.”“God, that was a commercial enterprise,” Hanks said.

“Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey.

‘The Da Vinci Code’ was hooey.”Hanks continued, “I mean, [author] Dan Brown, God bless him, says, ‘Here is a sculpture in a place in Paris! No, it’s way over there.

See how a cross is formed on a map? Well, it’s sort of a cross.’ Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage…All we were doing is promising a diversion.

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