![]() ![]() ![]() Even then, I think a domestic increase would have been made null & void as a result of an overseas decrease since that story is significantly less Eurocentric. Now if they had continued sequentially following Angels & Demons and had made a Lost Symbol film in 2013 (matching the strategy of Langdon book/film in same year like what happened in 2009) then perhaps it would have done substantially better. It had simply been too long and the vast majority of those who read the first two books had likely not even touched the Inferno novel. By 2016, the phenomenon was more than over and Hanks’ stardom was suitably nowhere close to what it was in 90s and throughout the 2000s. Inferno on the other hand wasn’t even the third sequential novel in the Langdon series, it was the fourth one, following 2009’s The Lost Symbol. It also released within a typical timeframe for a sequel and Hanks was very much still reliable for bankability. So despite the first film’s terrible reception, there was still enough goodwill in the tank to carry over for the sequel that audiences were also familiar with. The first Da Vinci Code was an insanely indescribable phenomenon when first published, which bled over to Angels & Demons which was actually released first. ![]()
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