“I would take the head turns backward on your body thing. Meanwhile, Tom says he’d take having his head on backwards. We’ve all committed those sins and it’s uncomfortable, but you want to work your way through there as quickly as possible, or try to get out because you certainly don’t want nine.” “The first level is, you know, kind of understandable. I mean, I don’t think you want any of them,” he said at a Singapore press conference. Asked which circle of hell is the scariest, Ron says the 9th. To film that, staff had to buy a whopping 9,000 liters of fake blood.ħ. Langdon gets a lot of scary visions of hell in the movie. In real life, the recipe for the “virus:” 40% water, 30% vegetable oil, and 30% tomato ketchup.Ħ. In the film, bioengineer Zobrist wants to unleash a virus that could kill millions. “I was looking for something I was not familiar with, which gave me a scope to explore, to do some kind of research on it. So this part was more attractive to me.”ĥ. “At that point in time in my career, I was not looking for that kind of part,” Irrfan told Rappler. Khan says he was originally offered the character of Christoph Bouchard, played by Omar Sy, but preferred the Provost part instead. To protect the flooring in one of the locations, staff built a fake pool of blood made of silicone in the scene where someone falls from the ceiling of the Hall of the Five Hundred in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.Ĥ. Indian superstar Irrfan Khan plays the Provost of the Command Risk Consortium who must navigate shifting balances in his work. 70% of the film was shot on location in Venice, Florence, Budapest, and Istanbul. (Read more about the “gates of hell” line in this story from The Guardian.)ĭirector Ron Howard told Rappler that Manila isn’t referenced in the movie.ģ. The character of Sienna Brooks, played by Felicity Jones in the film, visits the Philippines and witnesses its extreme poverty and crime, and is also the victim of assault in Manila. The book contains a line that describes Manila as the “gates of hell,” which many Filipinos were less than thrilled at when the book was released back in 2013. Author Dan Brown is credited as an executive producer for Inferno.Ģ. Here are some fun facts about the film, opening Wednesday, October 12, in Manila:ġ. Still, he must uncover clues related to Dante’s Inferno in order to find a way to save the world from a modern-day “extinction-level” event. SINGAPORE – Seven years after Angels & Demons hit theaters, another film based on Dan Brown’s novels makes its way to the big screen. Longtime friends Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard collaborate once more on Inferno, to bring genius professor Robert Langdon back to the movies.īut this time, he battles a bout of amnesia, not remembering why he’s ended up in a Florence hospital, and why people are trying to kill him.