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Lit Hub: “We Sent a Poet To Watch Inferno So You Don’t Have To”
This LitHub critique of the movie version of Inferno by poet Mary Jo Bang was spot on. Excerpts below. Full article here. Mary Jo Bang Takes in Tom Hanks on a Friday Night in Missouri November 17, 2016 By Peter … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante, Inferno, movie, poetry
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Battle of the Infernos
Among the curious coincidences surrounding the release of Inferno, the Ron Howard/Sony/Tom Hanks film version of Dan Brown’s 2013 novel of the same title, is the fact that Netflix is premiering another inferno today—Werner Herzog’s documentary Into the Inferno. The big … Continue reading
The Secrets of Zobrist, Part 2: Tom Hanks sees US election warning in thriller ‘Inferno’
Tom Hanks, who is reprising his role as Robert Langdon in Inferno, the third movie to have been based on one of Dan Brown’s books, has had some interesting political comments to make about the mad scientist/biotech billionaire anti-hero Bertrand … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Brown, movie, Tom Hanks
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The Secrets of Zobrist, Part 1: Dan Brown and the World Series…coincidence or an Inferno synchronicity?
With the movie version of Dan Brown’s 2013 bestseller Inferno set to open October 28, we are mindful of a plot-worthy confluence of time, character, and circumstance. In doing the research for our own 2013 book, Secrets of Inferno, we … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, coincidence, movie, opening
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Very felicitous: Felicity Jones to star in film version of Dan Brown’s Inferno?
According to well-informed Hollywood sources, British actress Felicity Jones is being romanced to star as Sienna Brooks in the film version of Dan Brown’s 2013 novel, Inferno. Close readers of the novel (and those who followed our book, Secrets of Inferno) … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, casting, Felicity Jones, Inferno
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Mad Money’s Jim Cramer on bulls, bears, and Dante
CNBC’s Jim Cramer analogized Twitter’s recent earnings call to navigating Dante’s nine circles of hell. After hearing that, we did a little checking and discovered that Cramer frequently alludes to the great Italian poet of the 13th and 14th centuries. … Continue reading
Googling Dante
A Google Adventure Pome by Dan Burstein* My Google Alerts are set to Pick up news about Dante… Dante Alighieri, that is The Dante who is Author of the Divine Comedy Leading poet of the last Millennium Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century … Continue reading
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown’s pre-Da Vinci Code novel, to be adapted for TV
Deadline Hollywood reports that Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress is about to become the basis for a new ABC TV series: After producing the blockbusters The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment is … Continue reading
The Inferno movie is moving toward production
Dan Brown’s 2013 novel Inferno is moving rapidly from page to screen. Sony Pictures, actor Tom Hanks, and director Ron Howard have apparently all agreed to make their third Dan Brown/Robert Langdon adventure flick, following the box office successes of … Continue reading
Dante and the Visual Arts (Continued)
The Metropolitan Museum is currently displaying some of its treasures in a focused show on French 19th century sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Much less known today than Auguste Rodin (who was 13 years younger than Carpeaux, but lived well into the 20th century), Carpeaux … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Carpeaux, Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, inspiration, Rodin, sculpture, Ugolino
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Secrets of Inferno 