Cathedral will host the Da Vinci code

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May 24, 2005


By Ruth Gledhill
The controversial bestselling novel is to be filmed in the home of the infamous Lincoln Imp



DAN BROWN’S bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code is to be filmed this summer in Lincoln Cathedral.

The medieval building, notorious for the devilish “Lincoln Imp”, which is blamed for everything from sex scandals to the misfortunes of Lincoln City Football Club, will be the backdrop for the climactic scenes when the protagonists meet at the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton.

The film will star Tom Hanks, as Robert Langdon, and Audrey Tautou, as Sophie Neveu. The cathedral will be made to look like Westminster Abbey, where the scenes are set in the 593-page book.

The Da Vinci Code has sold 25 million copies in just over a year and earned its author $140 million (£77 million). It portrays Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Roman Catholic Church, as a sinister, Mafia-style organisation and propounds the theory that Christ married Mary Magdalene and had a child.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1625256,00.html

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1. Oh my! I didn't know Audrey Tautou was in it. . .

Now I'll have to see it :) Audrey is awesome :)

[AllegroRondo]

2. Wow! Its on my must see list now!

Amelie is on my all-time favorite list.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Audrey Tautou fans should see

"He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not," which you might think of as the dark side of "Amelie."

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4. It's in my queue on Netflix, but I have pretty long queue :)

I'll get to it eventually :)

[mr blur]

5. Hope the script isn't as badly written as the awful book (nt)