I'll most likely go see this once as I thought the book was about 50 times better than Da Vinci Code. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/12/film.hanks.reut/index.html
Angels & Demons was a much better book than The Da Vinci Code. (Although that's a pretty low standard.) And it'll only be offensive to Catholics rather than Christians as a whole.
lol it was about this scholar who goes off on an adventure in Europe. Meets some foreign lady who joins up with him. Along the way they battle the wits of a mysterious foe who is actually being manipulated and controlled by an unseen mastermind. They discover a conspiracy hidden by the Catholic church that spans centuries and risk life and limb to discover it. oh wait...
It's about an Opus Dei (although, IIRC, it ends up not being Opus Dei) plot to keep a liberal from becoming Pope. They kill all of the liberal Cardinals who have a shot of becoming Pope. It does have some pretty cool examples of the inner workings of the Vatican.
Dan Brown very clearly wrote his books with the idea of tailoring them to be movies and A&D will make a decent one so long as the script guys and Ron Howard are more willing to improve on the novel than they were with DVC. Very basic premise: Takes place in Rome while the Cardinals are in the midst of electing a new pope - murder and mysteries surround! Evan
Akiva Goldsman is the guy who wrote Batman and Robin and Lost in Space. I think the first time I heard of him though was when he won an Oscar for adapting A Beautiful Mind. I looked him up and saw he was responsible for those awful movies, but he succesfully adapts books; The Client, A Time to Kill, Cinderella Man, etc. So as long as he is turning an already popular book into a movie, he's solid. . .
I happened to read Angels and Demons first, and I still think it was the better book. Has a bit of a science fiction element (which I was a fan of, but that's just my replicant side talking) that might, or might not, transfer to the flick, but could be toned down for believability. It was also a longer novel. Anyone familiar with "The Code" that hasn't read it, should run, not walk, to their nearest bookstore to pick up a copy. Great read. Same main charactor. Hanks will be playing him again? Cool. Hope it has a good script.
Neither book is a great read. Read A&D first and found it marginal. Could barely finish DVC. The Bash-The-Church subplot is cool but a novel it does not make.
i don't see how y'all could find one so much better than the other. they're the same book. i really liked both (read DVC first, A&D second), but they're the same. old dude dies, he's part of a secret organization or something, he has a hot female relative (daughter or granddaughter) who's really smart, she hooks up with langdon and they go solving puzzles all over the place, old dude was one of 4 guys to die, all get killed by some hulking, mysterious figure being manipulated by someone else, along the way a menacing person who seems to be after them actually turns out to be on their side, and their closest confidant turns out to be against them. the only thing different is in one the church seems like the good guy but turns out to be bad and in the other the church seems to be bad but turns out to be good. illuminati in this one, opus dei in the other one.
