Overview
- In May 2026 anniversary pieces, outlets revisited Tom Hanks’s 2022 New York Times comments calling the Robert Langdon movies “nonsense.”
- Hanks said the stories lacked logic and historical credibility, describing them as fun scavenger hunts with authenticity on par with James Bond’s take on espionage.
- He called the trilogy a purely commercial venture and said the third film showed it was not what he considers good commerce.
- The three films earned about $1.5 billion worldwide, with the 2006 opener topping $800 million and the 2016 installment near $220 million, showing sharp decline over time.
- The coverage reports no new sequel or reboot, focusing instead on Hanks’s critique and the series’ mixed cultural footprint.