"Inferno" Moves Off "Star Wars" Date

Variety reports that Sony Pictures has pushed back the release date of the third film featuring the Robert Langdon character in author Dan Brown's series. The film was initially set to open December 18th 2015 opposite "Star Wars: Episode VII". Instead, it has been delayed by almost a full year and will now hit screens on October 14th 2016.

Star Tom Hanks and filmmaker Ron Howard are set to reunite here. The pair already turned "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" into films but they have opted to skip the in the works adaptation of the book "The Lost Symbol" in favor of Brown's novel called "Inferno".

This time Langdon wakes up in hospital with amnesia, various brutal mercenaries out to kill him, and a mysterious madman seemingly intent on unleashing a pandemic on the world. The key to this riddle lies within an artist's rendering of Dante's Inferno

"Angels" scribe David Koepp returns as well to pen the adapted script.