sci fi wire -- John Calley, producer of the upcoming film version of Dan Brown's best-selling The Da Vinci Code, told SCI FI Wire that he bonded easily with director Ron Howard and Howard's longtime producing partner, Brian Grazer. ... Calley confirmed that Tom Hanks was in the running to play the lead character of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist who races to solve a murder using clues hidden in Leonardo Da Vinci's art work. "That was in Newsweek. Yeah, I think so," Calley said.