Prequel to "The Davinci Code" now filming in Rome

[underpants]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808151/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808151/plotsummary

Angels and Demons was the reclusive author's third novel after he gave up his job as an English teacher. It tells the story of Langdon's brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the world's most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered. Written by anonymous





Tom Hanks ... Robert Langdon

Ewan McGregor ... Carlo Ventresca

Director:Ron Howard

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That sounds interesting!

Great cast, and director too...

I'll be looking for this one ...

Thanks for the heads-up, my dear underpants!

:hi:

[underpants]

5. My dear CaliforniaPeggy

no problem

[Drum]

2. without Audrey Tautou???

Unthinkable!

[underpants]

4. The rest of the cast-accordig to imdb

Ayelet Zurer ... Vittoria Vetra
Masasa Moyo ... South African Reporter

Kristof Konrad ... Polish Reporter

Jonas Fisch ... Swiss Guardsman (uncredited)

Toffoli Nico ... Carabiniere Riot #1 (uncredited

[Pierre.Suave]

10. She is so very cute

I LURVE her.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Ooh! Ooh! Is it called "The Da Vinci Treasure"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810817/

Starring C. Thomas Howell as Michael Archer?

[ceile]

6. Good book

Better than Da Vinci Code, I thought. I'm sure they'll ruin it.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. I liked it too.nt

[arcadian]

7. It's the same fucking movie!

I read both and they are the exact same novel except one is set in Paris and one is set Rome: Murder, let's run over here while a shadowy network pursues us!, a clue, a painting pointing to some dead pope, let's run over here while a shadowy network pursues us!, a statue with a hidden compartment and weird writing on it, a clue, plot twist, let's run over here while a shadowy network pursues us!, final clue and resolution.

[cemaphonic]

9. Except that instead being full of annoyingly idiotic history,

it's full of annoyingly idiotic history AND science. Then there's the Illuminati. Aside from being a pretty banal and derivative choice as secret societies go(I mean, c'mon they have a popular board game based on them), you should at least start with the historical framework of the actual Illuminati instead of just making shit up. Oh yeah, and the trying to drown someone in a fountain that is about two feet deep max, and surrounded by huge crowds at all times.

Plus the main suspense plot hinged on the supposed impossibility of locating the source of a constant radio transmission of known frequency. Maybe that's why the Italians lost WWII, although you would think that they would have worked it out eventually.

I'm all for willing suspension of disbelief, and pretty tolerant of goofy science and history in fiction, but the near constant assault of gross factual errors shattered it to pieces, and he compounded it by making the protagonists supposed world-class experts in these subjects. And he can't write. Dean Koontz is probably a better prose stylist than he is.

[arcadian]

12. They are screenplays that he novelized.

That's the way I look at it.

[KatyMan]

11. I agree

His books all follow the same formula. And the shadowy network is always led by an old guy the protaganists trust.

[arcadian]

13. His book set in Washington D.C. was supposed to be out last year.

Anybody know about this books whereabouts? The Solomon Key I think it's called.

[Orsino]

14. Neat sci-fi plot...

...atrociously written, as with DaVinci Code.