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Hanks Gets Jedi Guidance In That DA VINCI CODE Prequel!!
Merrick here...
Ewan McGregor looks to be joining Tom Hanks and and the recently announced Ayelet Zurer (details HERE) in ANGELS & DEMONS, Ron Howard's forthcoming borification of Dan Brown's novel.
McGregor is set to take on the role of a powerful Vatican insider who assists Langdon.
Story centers on religious art scholar Robert Langdon (Hanks), who once again finds himself entangled with powerful forces with ancient roots: the Illuminati -- the most powerful underground organization in history -- and the Catholic Church.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Story centers on religious art scholar Robert Langdon (Hanks), who once again finds himself entangled with powerful forces with ancient roots: the Illuminati -- the most powerful underground organization in history -- and the Catholic Church.
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now what would make you say such a thing, hmmm?
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Eh, I got nothing else.
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...and fuck you for asking.
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Naveen Andrews shines when he's bad, and it would continue well with his knack for playing characters that die in the movie (Planet Terror, The Brave One)
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McGregor, come on? I thought you had a better stink-dar to avoid films like this. The prequels have thrown off your judgment.
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Me, I'm holding out for the big budget "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", complete with CGI, explosions, and 8 nubile virgins impaled on a giant menorah. Seriously, why does any rational person insist on buying a ticket to this conspiracy-laden, bigoted, craptastic, fantasy garbage?
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I answered my own question: a "rational" person wouldn't.
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Nah, won't do it. But I think I know who he's playing, and it sounds like a great choice to me. He'll do a great job with the role. Now if only it wasn't Howard directing again... *sigh* And yes, Naveen Andrews NEEEEEEEEEEEEDS to play the Hashasheen or however it was spelled. Argh, every major issue I have with the movie stems from the fact that it's Ron Howard again! Well, A&D is far superior to Code, maybe Howard will kick it into high gear this time. This is NOT a slow-paced story.
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Is a far better book than Da Vinci Code, far better pacing and some incredible action scenes, but seeing as Richie Cunningham managed to take all the pacing out of the previous book and turn it into a snore fest I do not have much expectation for this. Shame.
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Bigoted? Conspiracy-laden?Spoken like a true ignoramus. Angels & Demons is NOT The DaVinci Code. A&D will take flack simply for having an incredibly controversial central mystery. But there is nothing about the Illuminati, or the Masons, or the Priory, or any other crazy cult. Oh wait, my bad, it's about the Catholic Church. I guess this IS a conspiracy story about a crazed cult... OOOOOOH, NO HE DIH-INT!
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As I have stated before (and who cares if you care), the Da Vinci Code was a terrible movie and appealed to the whole laptop Starbucks pseudo intellectual crowd full of soccer moms. These hack fucks read the book and see the movie and all of a sudden they're a conspiracy theorist and start googling the Rosslyn Chapel and planning their next vacation to Scottland and start spewing ignorance about the Knights Templar. Give me a big fucking break you clueless hacks.
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You are right, Naveen Andrews needs to be cast as the hashassin. He rocks.
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This should kick some royal ass! The book was a solid page-turner, much more entertaining than the Da Vinci Code.
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...a group of anonymous, Latin-American meat packing Illuminati...
...huh?
This film will be just as dull as the first one was.
oh, and 5 cents to anyone who gets the subreference I made...
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I like Ron Howard a lot, I really do. . .but for some reason all of his movies bore me. I don't know why, they just seem overly bland, but it can't be all on him, can it? The stories tend to be bland, the characterizations, the camera shots, nothing sticks out for me. I don't want to slam the guy because he's obviously very talented and a good person, it's just how I feel.
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The Da Vinci code was entertaining and I read the whole thing. Angels and Demons was fucking boring unless you have a hardon for Vatican City. I'm sure they will take a lot of the boring stuff out of the movie, but the basic plot is not even especially imaginative or interesting, so the movie will probably be a bore.
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I read this first during the big Da Vinci Code hysteria a few years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I read Da Vinci and, though I was entertained, I felt it was a moderate repetition of A&D. And it wasn't as much fun.
I think everyone just latched on the the whole familiarity aspect with Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci and all. That's why Da Vinci Code ended up being such a big friggin' deal. -
It's just wrong.
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Please, just hook up with Spielberg again... Not more Dan Brown nonsense! His recent film choices have me a bit disappointed. I'd love to see him work with the Coens again too.
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Apr 25, 2008 8:58:02 AM CDT
These films are abominations. Not against god
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
just good taste.
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Harry, can you set that up for me?
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Angels & Demons > Da Vinci Code. And I'll re-re-re-restate the obvious: Harrison Ford > Tom Hanks as John Langdon (duh).
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The hate is
swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon.
Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it.
Give in to your anger. With each passing
moment, you make yourself more my servant.
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the movie, that is...is that they should have taken the tone/pace/style of National Treasure. Da Vinci Code was a popcorn movie style book if I ever read one. It really needed to take on that National Treasure, mindless entertainment tone, rather than trying to take itself so seriously. It was one of the quickest reads I've ever picked up, and they take all the fun out of it and turn it into a long, meandering crapfest. Hopefully Rappin' Ronnie Howard learned from his mistake. Oh, and while I enjoy his books, Dan Brown is an absolute hack. He follows the same "villain formula" for every single one of his books. I put it to the test with either Deception Point or Digital Fortress, I honestly don't recall which one and frankly I don't care, and I had figured out the villain just based on how he was described upon first appearance. Brown never, ever, ever fails to be predictable.
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You should ask yourself. Better yet, you probably looked it up on Wikipenis before you asked me.
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NT was ok...just ok for a pop movie. DC? no more comments. Shame too because I really like Tom Hanks. "The Burbs" rocked!!
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I just rewatched Charlie Wilson's War and as much as Harry is right about PSH owning ass in that movie, Hanks' really does carry it as a character and the acting is superb...esp. when you see the real Charlie Wilson in the extras.
Boo on this. Boo boo boo...putrescence. Ron Howard could make a sequel to the shlockfest Far and Away that would be better use of time than this. -
***SPOILER ALERT*** In the book, Langdon jumps out of a plane without a parachute and lives. /END SPOILER
I almost threw the book across the room when I read that. That better not be in the movie. Everything else is kind of interesting - it made me want to go to Rome and see the dirty saint statues. -
the helicopter bit was inane.
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....where he's holding a small canopy to reduce wind resistance as he falls reminded me of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure where they use the sun-roof as a parachute as they fall off a cliff, or in Temple of Doom where they fall out of a plane in an inflatable raft, or something out of a Wile Coyote cartoon.
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...did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
Where's my 5 cents? ;^)
P.S. If it wasn't for the Nips being so good at building ships, the yards would still be open on the Clyde. But it can't be much fun for them, beneath the rising sun, with all their kids committing suicide. ;^) -
Apr 25, 2008 9:39:06 AM CDT
When it comes to Dan Brown and ' the book being better'
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I lose all respect for any person who utters that phrase. I got all of 10 pages into Davinci Code, wondering what I was missing. When I threw it away in disgust at Dans' contempt for his readers, I realised the world has turned to shit and the meek HAVE inherited the Earth. If by meek you mean simpletons.
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Ewan McGregor's American accent. See, in particular, Black Hawk Down and Deception.
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"Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics and Catholics hate the Protestants and the Hindus hate the Muslims and everybody hates the Jews"
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He just looked completely lost in the Da Vinci Code, he's great when he plays a boy in a man's body but terrible when it comes to actually playing a man.
I think Richard Gere would have been perfect for the role - yes, he only has two emotions (blinking and not blinking), but he's dynamic and believable. -
... They did well on Apollo 13, etc. However, I found Hanks to be flat here, and what's up with that hair?! To his defense, it sounded like he had a cold and/or was sick throughout much of the production. That said, the movie didn't live up to the book and its own hype.
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Merrick Should be fired for his constant predictable negativity. He is a lousy writer too.
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They can appear to themselves everyday on closed-circuit TV, to make sure they're still real. It's the only connection they feel!
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What role are they considering him for? I really doubt it's Janus... not exactly an ally of Langdon's.
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...a group of anonymous, Latin-American meat packing Illuminati...
...huh?
This film will be just as dull as the first one was.
oh, and 5 cents to anyone who gets the subreference I made...
Ah...the truly classic Final Cut by Pink Floyd. The song (with it's Illuminati reference) is "The Fletcher Memorial Home", named for songwriter Roger Waters father, Eric Fletcher Waters.
I love the title track from that album..."If you negotiate / the minefield in the drive / or beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes / and if you make it past the shotguns in the hall / dial the combination...open the priesthole...and if I'm in...(shotgun blast)...
The Doc -
Heh, maybe I'm wrong...
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I think The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons read better as books than watched as films. All that cryptology and symbology didn't really fit into a movie in The Da Vinci Code film adaptation. Brown's novel was one heck of a page-tuner, where as the movie was kind of on the dull side.
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Really,who gives a shit?
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was going to appear to open a can whop ass on those self rightous ass wipes at the Vatican. That would be a movie I'd see. In the interest of balance on fairness, I'm an atheist so I hold all religion in equal comtempt not just the cathlic church!!
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Only saw the movie. Thought it was a pretty good flick, nothing to great but good none-the-less. So did everyone I went to see it with.
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Ewan McGregor is refreashed. I look forward to seeing him in every movie ever made for the next two years again.
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The Da Vinci Code used the exact same formula with a shittier McGuffen.
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Merrick, nice to see you've made a pretermined opinion of the movie without having seen it yet. This is why I'll never take your opinion seriously.
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It was rubbish in "Cassandra's Dream"
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Pink Floyd
album The Final Cut
song The Fletcher Memorial Home -
Ah well....
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Ummm, duh. He's obviously playing the Camerlengo.
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Hope he does the music for this one. Beyond that I could give a shit.
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Then again, they'll make a prequel/sequel to anything.
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Like in Arrested Development. That's what they should've done with DVC.
Some Random Dude: Yo, you should think about what the result will be before you cut your hair like that, Tom Hanks.
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The Illuminati are the main conspiracy cult organization focused on in Angels & Demons. I saw written above that there were no crazy cult references in this book, and I wanted to correct the error. In fact, one of the big themes of the book is the history of the war between the Illuminati and the Catholic church.
Supposedly the Illuminati was founded by a group of scientists who want to destroy religion as revenge for the suppression of truth and spread of superstition that they believe the church is responsible for.
And as for all the Dan Brown writing criticism; Dan Brown was a History, Art and Conspiracy buff, not a literature expert. He did a fantastic job, in my opinion, of writing exciting, simple, page turning, fun thrillers that discussed ideas previously only talked about amoung scholars, history buffs and conspiracy nuts. The phony, and so fake, literature snobs say it wasnt well written, but lets see one of them even try to write a book that makes history, art, science and math ( Digital Fortress ) exciting and fun for the uneducated masses that they look down upon.
Most of the hate that Dan Brown gets that doesnt come from the fundamentalist christians who are threatened by the historical challenges to their religion in Davinci Code, is coming from the usual group of knuckle heads who hate on anything popular because it makes them feel so superior.
The last two minutes of "The Rock" made me wonder how Michael Bay would have handled the exposition aspects of The Davinci Code. He would have been perfect for the cheesy pulp style cliff hangers of the book that didnt make it into the movie. -
Grizzly bishop murders, antimatter bombs, wheelchair bound geniuses, and a new pope that is an utterly nuts character who pulls off totally implausible actions, and Tom Hank's epic haircut. God I pray this is fun. If they even have an iota of seriousness the whole thing is doomed.
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Oh fuck me thats the word of the day! It sums it all up. You sir deserve a drink and a wench..
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Apr 25, 2008 7:58:17 PM CDT
I'm not 100% sure... Da Vinci Code was pretty good, as is this b
by avon
..last time out. I am waiting for an improved portrayal...and lose that hair cut. Something more natural would be good, likewise the character in the book is a bit younger now, so Hanks needs to shed a lot of weight to fit the part.
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yeah.
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He alone makes me wish for the writers strike to continue...
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oh - about that inflatable raft as parachute thing - I think I saw on Mythbusters one time they actually decided that was totally plausible...
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Apr 26, 2008 3:42:19 PM CDT
Raft? I thought i was a blanket or some kind of cloth
by blindambition238
Yea that scene ruined the entire book for me.
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Hanks tootles around again with aweful Hair and a puffy face... No ta!
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Same story on both, scientist hooks up with eminent guy's daughter, finds himself in the middle of a religious conspiracy, chased by a weird assasin and a bitter authority figure and finding out the guy who he thought was helping him was actually the bad guy all along. Yes both books have very, very insteresting premises, but they're very poorly written.
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I agree with the poster who said that The Da Vinci Code movie took itself way too seriously. When you break it down, the movie was basically a series of talking heads scenes inter-cut with a couple brief 'suspense moments'. When you read the book you can digest all the trivia that they try to throw out while the plot moves forward, but in the film its just exposition, trivia, exposition, chase, repeat. At the same time, the film had really great production values, such as the excellent cinematography and sweeping score, but they contradict the pacing of the movie trying to tell you everything your seeing is grand and exciting, but in reality its still just talking heads. I think this book had some more 'action' in it, but they really should try to embrace the trashy airport novel aspect which I think the author does pretty well (its a 'popcorn movie' version of novels) instead of trying to overcompensate.
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is a hack writer. he has the same cookie cutter formula when he writes so you can very easily pick out the villain-pretending-to-be-good by the 3rd chapter in his books.
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someone mentioned Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
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Stupid fucking elitist humor. Go back to the 60's and please never re-post this crap for fuck sake.
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I love and share your taste in music, but the actual lyric is "glitteratti", not "Illuminati".
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...time I've ever felt ahead of the curve on this site. 'Cause I refused to read any of Brown's drivel or go see the movie in the first place. Like I need a tip-toeing, bullshit-daring "Indiana Jones" ripoff to tell me that the vatican is full of secrets, lies, and greed. Cripes, no wonder the world's in the shape it's in if consumers think they're being somehow naughty and sacrilegious just by lapping up that pale horseshit. What's next, some of them might dare to eat meat on a Friday? What a gutsy, brave bunch of sheep.......
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Apr 27, 2008 2:06:03 PM CDT
"Trust your feelings, Robert! Something is out of place here!"
by mrmysteryguest
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it is for the money, that is why. He is being given 25 million up front along with some sort of incentive if the movie is a hit. If it is (which it probably will be) it has been said that he would get another 25 million at least. With all that coinage, at least he could get that World War II monument built that he always wanted to see. Sorry if I'm messing with bad grammar too much on this post, nursing an awful hangover. I liked Da Vinci Code even though I can see how people hate it and cannot wait for this flick, just to see how they handle dark matter as a special effect for one thing. The main problem I had with the book was that the warrior villain in it was also a tall hulking figure like Da Vinci Code, except this time he was an Arabic pot smoking sex fiend assassin instead of European, Albino and penitent doing a service for his "religion." If they want to go by physicality they should either cast that pro wrestler El Gigante (if he is still alive) or this one tall guy that Antonio Banderas had to fight in the first Zorro film (and then just dub in a voice if he cannot speak good English)
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This will be awesome, as long as they use the Ambigrams and and the whole Illuminati vs Catholic Church plot. Angels & Demons is far better than DaVinci Code....they should have made this film first.
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I don't know why they want to make these books into movies. For Ewan to be in it now. Makes me kinda sad. Why can't he be offered good projects? He's got talent. I mean, he used to. He was so raw before. Now he's like, will say yes to this?!
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Good one! Just as long as Ron Howard doesn't chumpatize himself...
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