Sony Pictures has set an early January to start ‘Angels & Demons’ - a prequel to The Da Vinci Code, one of the most controversial films.
A hollywood reporter in Los Angeles informed that the actor-director duo of Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are in final negotiations to reunite for a prequel to The Da Vinci Code. A-list casting directors have already been hired to fill out the thriller’s supporting roles.
Akiva Goldsman, who is to finish his adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-seller, ‘Angels & Demons’, in which Hanks’ character, Harvard professor Robert Langdon, becomes embroiled in murders involving the Illuminati and the Vatican.
The Da Vinci Code had grossed $758 million worldwide despite a critical pasting. The movie based on Dan Brown’s novel by the same name, attracted worldwide condemnation by the Christian community. The main argument being the story was offensive to Jesus Christ and the Catholic church.
Brown’s theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene or many more claims about Christianity’s historic origins and theological development, chagrined the community no end. However, the moderates possibly in the majority, felt it was up to people to decide whether the theories belonged to Brown’s imagination or the skeleton of facts that supported them.
Via: Reuters
