Sony Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have fixed April 2015 as the date to begin shooting the adaptation of Dan Brown's 'Inferno' in Italy, reported Deadline.
Ron Howard is set to direct once again alongside Brian Grazer as producer and David Koepp overseeing the script.
Hanks was last seen as the Harvard symbologist in 2009's 'Angels & Demons', which grossed USD 486 million worldwide.
'The Lost Symbol' is the third novel in Brown's bestselling mystery-thriller series but it is being skipped for the most recent release 'Inferno'.