Angels & Demons to take off in February

Posted on October 26, 2007
Filed Under Actors, Directors, News

Finally it’s friday. To celebrate the weekend I’m gonna give you an update on one of the biggest films of 2008…

Variety.com reports that Columbia has formalized a February start in Europe for “Angels & Demons,” the Ron Howard-directed sequel to “The Da Vinci Code” that will be released in December 2008.

The producers are seeking to finalize the shooting script before next week’s deadline. Meanwhile, the “Angels” team have begun casting around Tom Hanks, who will reprise his role as Robert Langdon.

Hanks’ character, a Harvard-based expert on religious symbols, this time sleuths a mystery that involves a secret society and a conspiracy that leads to Vatican City and threatens the future of the Catholic Church.

The film guarantees a manic year for Howard, who will be multi-tasking to get the picture done. Howard will shoot “Angels & Demons” as he supervises editing and post-production on the screen adaptation of the Peter Morgan play “Frost/Nixon.” That film, which Howard wrapped shooting last week, has tentatively been slotted for a late 2008 release. This means Howard will have two high-profile projects opening in a relatively short time.

Just like most of you, I’m sure, I truly enjoyed the books written by author Dan Brown. And like most of you I felt a bit disappointed by the movie adaptation of “The Da Vinci Code”. Not a bad movie at all but it doesn’t really give justice to Dan Browns colorful mystery novel.

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