Tom Hanks will return to star in the third Da Vinci Code movie, playing the role of Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist and main character of Dan Brown’s series of bestselling books.

The Inferno film will be directed by Ron Howard, the director of 2006’s The Da Vinci Code and its sequel, Angels and Demons (2009) and, according to information released by the film industry website Deadline, it is expected to be released in December 2015.

The movie is based on the fourth book in Brown’s series, skipping the third installment “The Lost Symbol”.

The story is inspired by Dante Alighieri’s 14th-Century epic poem, “The Divine Comedy”. In Inferno, Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital with amnesia. He teams up with Sienna Brooks, the doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories and prevent a madman from releasing a global plague connected to Dante’s Inferno.