Jean Reno is set to join Tom Hanks in Columbia Pictures' upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling thriller
The Da Vinci Code, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The feature, helmed by by Ron Howard, will see Reno play gruff detective Bezu Fache to Hanks' famed symbologist Robert Langdon in the film version of the novel that has dominated the best seller list for almost two years.
The project is scheduled to begin production in 2005 for a May 19, 2006 release.