Movie After Da Vinci Code
Jun 23, 2016 - Reporting on movies, television, video games, and pop culture. How Inferno Differs From The Da Vinci Code, According To Ron Howard. Decades, and he has been cranking out original works year after year, from Splash.
It's a truth universally acknowledged that most houses have at least one copy of a Dan Brown book floating around somewhere. The author struck pay dirt with his bestselling mystery novels Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, both which were adapted into feature films starring Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon. It's been seven years since the Angels movie, and Langdon is back with another Judeo-Christian puzzle to solve. Inferno stars Hanks and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones and is based on Brown's most recent novel with the same name. In this cryptic adventure, Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with selective amnesia and then must stop a genocidal maniac with the help of a map of the underworld based on Dante's Inferno. (Alternative title suggestion: National Treasure: Euro Trip.) Could this new movie revive the cat-and-mouse series? If it's a success, Inferno could get a sequel.
Columbia Pictures has not announced concrete plans to produce another Langdon movie after this one. But the source material is there. In fact, an earlier Brown novel was in development before Inferno was even published. According to The Los Angeles Times, Empire's Danny Strong was working on a screenplay adaptation of the 2009 release The Lost Symbol. (Inferno came out in 2013.) The publication also reported that Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard had passed on helming that one.
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Ultimately, The Lost Symbol movie was scrapped in favor of pursuing Inferno. Tom Hanks told Cinema Blend that the decision came down to the former's similarity to the plot of the first two films. Hanks said:
That was interesting because we actually worked on [Lost Symbol] for a while to see if there was something, and at the end of the day, Washington, D.C. and the question of the Masons was very reminiscent of the theoretical dilemmas of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. We had to say that we don't quite think there is something [there] to truly hang on.
In a separate interview with Cinema Blend, Inferno director Ron Howard explained that his team wasn't able to 'internally crack' The Lost Symbol as a movie. Fortunately, if he and Hanks want to make another Langdon flick, they won't have to go back to that well unless they want to. In September, Entertainment Weekly reported that Dan Brown's fifth Robert Langdon mystery, Origins, will be released Sept. 27, 2017. According to a synopsis, the plot will see the hero at 'the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions' searching for 'the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them.' Any bets on the two questions? 'What's the wifi password?' has to be one of them.
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There's a possibility that an Origins movie may not be far behind the novel. But Hanks clarified in the same Cinema Blend interview that neither he nor the studio are contractually obligated to adapt a certain number of these books. 'We have no idea if it's going to come down the pike — if we're going to want to jump on it or not,' Hanks said. 'We'll see.'
Inferno will be in theaters Oct. 28.
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Darren Aronofsky takes on the Bible for his next movie Noah, and though the film won't be in cinemas until 2014, there's already controversy swirling around the big budget drama. Paramount's recent test-screenings - to Jewish, Christian and general audiences - reportedly prompted 'troubled reactions', leading to much speculation about what Aronofsky's epic has in store.
Noah is not the first film to fall foul of church groups - it seems that anytime a movie portrays religion, headlines and column inches swiftly follow. Digital Spy takes a look at six movies that have sparked religious uproar below..
The Devils (1971)
Ken Russell relished his reputation as a provocateur, and his early '70s drama The Devils was prime bait for the tabloids with its depiction of witchcraft, explicit nudity and Vanessa Redgrave as a masturbating nun. The film naturally fell foul of ratings boards and was heavily censored on its initial release. The Devils garnered renewed interest in the early '00s when critic Mark Kermode discovered lost footage.. the fact that it contained a sequence dubbed 'Rape of Christ' probably goes some way to highlighting just why it was so controversial.
'So funny it was banned in Norway!' announced the tag line for this Monty Python film, which centred on a Jewish man called Brian who gets mistaken for the Messiah. Accused of blasphemy and banned in Ireland for an astonishing eight years, the comedy found itself slapped with an X certificate in the UK and prevented from being shown by 39 local councils. Life of Brian, of course, brilliantly satirises the furore surrounding religion so it's perhaps ironic just how much of a fuss it caused.
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's book showed Willem Dafoe's Jesus grappling with human temptations, including lustful desires for Barbara Hershey's Mary Magdalene. A scene of Jesus consummating his marriage with Mary and his crucifixion, in which Satan appears as an androgynous child, drew religious ire for departing from the gospel. Last Temptation found itself banned in several countries and still isn't shown in Philippines or Singapore.
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Dogma (1999)
Kevin Smith's fourth feature film drew protests from the Catholic League thanks to its tale of two fallen angels trying to get back into Heaven. Smith was inundated with hate mail around the time of Dogma's release and, hilariously, the writer/director actually joined a New Jersey group to protest against his own movie.
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
This Mel Gibson film gruesomely depicted the final hours of Jesus's life, with the director's own hands cropping up in an insert shot to hammer Christ to the cross. The film was met by a wave of criticism from the Jewish community, who felt that it was blaming them for the death of Jesus. Gibson denied this and also defended the scenes of extreme violence, saying: 'If you don't like it, don't go. If you want to leave halfway through, go ahead.'
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Both Dan Brown's novel and the subsequent Ron Howard film adaptation stirred up anger with Catholics for suggesting that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a daughter who was part of a 2,000-year-old cover-up from the church. The Vatican denounced the movie on its 2006 cinema release, while countries ranging from Jordan to Samoa banned the film outright. This was presumably to do with The Da Vinci Code's hot potato religious content and not Tom Hanks's highly-offensive hairstyle.