It was always going to happen, wasn't it? Even though The Da Vinci Code movie was rubbished by all kinds of people who are paid to professionally tell the public whether films are good or bad, millions of people went to see it.
Even though The Da Vinci Code was pulled apart for being too long, too boring, too full of undisguised exposition, too reliant on Tom Hanks' dreadful haircut for entertainment and too, well, too crap, The Da Vinci Code has now become an official movie success. And where there's success, there's a half-baked opportunistic sequel, which is good news for the five or six people who thought Angels And Demons was any good.
OK, we'll admit it, we caved to The Da Vinci Code hype juggernaut. Not enough to actually go and watch The Da Vinci Code, of course – there are plenty of better things we could do with £7.50 of our money, like buying a mousetrap and setting it off with our testicles – but enough to get caught up in all the Da Vinci Code publicity like everyone else.
The Da Vinci Code court case, all the Catholic Da Vinci Code tantrums, Tom Hanks growing his hair and telling everyone The Da Vinci Code is "hooey," all the critics replacing the word "hooey" with the word "lousy," everyone ignoring the critics and going to see The Da Vinci Code anyway so that they can bore the life out of their friends who couldn't give a toss about it… it all happened, and we reported it. Sorry.
The Da Vinci Code has been such a success, and made so much money, that film studios are getting ready to snap up every other hamfisted airport novel Dan Brown ever wrote. And that starts with Angels And Demons, the first Dan Brown novel to introduce the world to crap-haired scholar Robert Langdon. Columbia Pictures has already reportedly signed a deal to bring Angels And Demons to the big screen. Akiva Goldman, who wrote the screenplay for The Da Vinci Code, is to adapt Angels And Demons into a movie, although neither Ron Howard or Tom Hanks is currently attached to it.
But what is Angels And Demons all about? Well, Angels And Demons is like The Da Vinci Code with 85% less excitement, controversy or entertainment but 100% more dodgy-haired Americans running about Europe shouting GCSE theology to that bloke out of Wimbledon.
Or something.
Read more:
Brown's Demons To Be Turned Into Film – ITV
[story by Stuart Heritage]
bob says
F.Y.I. Angels and Demons is the prequel to The Da Vinci Code.
You obviously didn’t read the book.
yours sincerely bob.