Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon Returns to Solve More Riddles in New INFERNO Trailer
Do you remember the Riddler's ridiculous riddles from the 1966 Batman TV series and movie? Batman and Robin were always capable of almost instantaneously making the most insane logical leaps to find the answers. My favorite example is from Batman: The Movie:
Batman: [reading a skywritten message] "What goes up white and comes down yellow and white?"
Robin: An egg!
Batman: [reading another skywritten message] "How do you divide seventeen apples among sixteen people?"
Robin: Make applesauce!
Batman: [thinking out loud] Apples into applesauce - A unification into one smooth mixture. An egg - nature's perfect container. The container of all our hopes for the future.
Robin: A unification and a container of hope? United World Organization!
Batman: Precisely, Robin!
In the opening minute of this new trailer for Ron Howard's Inferno, the third in his trilogy of films about professor Robert Langdon that began with The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks' character makes a similar logical jump that had me cracking up. This time, Langdon is the only man who can stop an "extinction-level event" that's incredibly preposterous, but somehow fits perfectly in the cinematic world they've created over the years. Inferno hits theaters on October 28, 2016.