But they first started working together on Howard’s second feature film, where Hanks played a man who fell in love with a mermaid in Splash.
Tom Hanks and Ron Howard’s collaborations go back decades.
Only, that wasn’t the role he initially tried out for, as Howard recalls in a new video from Fandango.
Inferno, hitting theaters this Friday, marks the fifth film that Howard has directed with Hanks in the lead (it’s also the third of their adaptations of the Dan Brown novels centered around Robert Langdon).