Author Talks Big Screen "DaVinci"

[Khephra]

'The Rascal' was at a talk with best-selling author Dan Brown the other day who spoke out about Imagine Entertainment's planned adaptation of his already famous "The DaVinci Code" about a murder investigation which leads to uncovering of all sorts of ancient conspiracies and religious secrets:

"Brown said that he was wary of selling the rights to the book. He was first courted by Harvey Weinstein, but found his meetings with him to be distasteful. Eventually he agreed to sell the rights to Ron Howard. Brown indicated that Howard was deciding between Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks for the part of Robert Langdon.

Tom Cruise was trying to acquire the rights but is NOT under consideration by Howard. Although Brown has a veto right over the choice of lead character, he said that he will not overrule Howard, saying: “how am I supposed to tell an academy award-winning director that he’s wrong when I don’t know anything about movies?”

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040226c.php

[KittyWampus]

1. Interesting Thread Kephra! Davinci Code Movie Could Outshine The Book

the book being a bit of a jumble IMO.

Ron Howard has a good handle on storytelling without relying too heavily on the Special Effects machine.

Lot of great imagery for the public to take in. It could help raise our group consciousness an iota.

[Khephra]

3. I agree about your take on the book

Very jumbled, but it could be one of the few movies that end up being better than the original book.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. I heard Russel Crowe in the lead. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

4. Let's see how up in arms the fundies are

when this movie comes out! It will be an interesting counter to
The Passion.

[youngred]

5. NO!

The plot sucked even though the information brought up was fantastic.

Don't make it a movie, they'll cut out the wheat and leave the chaff

[nemo137]

6. neat. but can't we go in order?

i liked angels & demons better, myself.