Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are probably in a tiny chapel in Scotland right at this very moment.

Why? Have they decided that prayer is the only way to seek forgiveness for The Man With One Red Shoe and Ransom? No, they’re filming The Da Vinci Code there.

We’ll come clean and admit that we haven’t read The Da Vinci Code (Books) –
but as far as we can tell it’s about Leonardo Da Vinci, who draws a
picture of Jesus which comes to life and becomes a medieval knight and
chases a monk about on a horse. Kind of like an upmarket episode of
Penny Crayon.

The book has been a runaway success; all sorts of people have read
some of it, instantly proclaimed themselves to be religious experts and
then yammered on about the bloody thing to anyone that’ll listen for
the rest of their life.

And now it’s being turned into a movie directed by Ron Howard, and
starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou as detectives looking for Jesus
hiding in a cupboard or something. Anyway, this week they’re filming in
Rosalyn Chapel – a tiny chapel in Malathion which was apparently built
to house the secret of the Holy Grail.

Like every other location in the book, Rosalyn Chapel has experienced a huge growth in visitors over the last year as some of the 25 million readers of The Da Vinci Code feel a compulsion to go around the world gawping at old churches.

The Da Vinci Code will be released next year – watch the trailer here.

Read more:

The Da Vinci crew films under a code of silence – The Telegraph

[story by Stuart Heritage]