A release date has been set for the big screen adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling book 'The Da Vinci Code'.
The Hollywood Reporter says that movie studio Columbia Pictures has announced that the film will be released worldwide on 19 May 2006.
Columbia also confirmed that Tom Hanks would play the lead role of symbologist Robert Langdon in the film, which will be directed by Ron Howard.
Production on the film will begin next year in Europe and the US.
