All smiles and button downed shirts, the starts of Angels and Demons brought all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to Rome to premier Dan Brown’s prequel to the hit film/book The Da Vinci Code.
Brown joined actors Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor and director Ron Howard at Rome’s auditorium Monday to screen the film, which has already sparked controversy over Howard’s charge that the Vatican interfered with getting film permits to shoot scenes in Rome.
Angels & Demons features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon of “The Da Vinci Code” fame, played by Hanks. In the film, the Vatican turns to Langdon after an ancient secret brotherhood called the Illuminati kidnap four cardinals considered front-runners to be the next pope, and threaten to kill one an hour and then explode a bomb at the Vatican.
The film is said to be faster paced and it wouldn’t be a big task to do this. The first was a turtles pace and what was supposed to be drawn out suspense felt like a drawn out yawn. But despite that, the film raked in some serious coin.
There has been a lot of contraversy around Howard’s assertment that the Vatican interfered with permits and other efforts with the film being shot on location in Rome. And now it seems they suited up and ran the red carpet out right in Rome for the Premier.
The Catholic League is always up in arms over any depection of the church, right or wrong, and this WORK OF FICTION can hardly change the public image of the organized religion but there are always going to be people who feel that Hollywood has a specific agenda to undermine the Catholic Faith.
Sorry. Hollywood is an equal opportunity offender.
