[Apologetics] Da Vinci Code won't translate easily to big screen

[Art Kelly]

Da Vinci Code won't translate easily to big screen
By SHARON WAXMAN
New York Times News Service

LOS ANGELES — On the face of it, Hollywood projects
don't get much simpler than The Da Vinci Code, a movie
being shot in Europe this summer, based on the
international publishing phenomenon by Dan Brown.

All the ingredients are there: a blockbuster book with
36 million copies in print, an Academy Award-winning
team in the writer Akiva Goldsman and the director Ron
Howard (for A Beautiful Mind), and an Oscar perennial,
Tom Hanks, in the lead, as the Harvard professor
Robert Langdon. Sony Pictures, the studio behind the
film, would seem well on its way to that rarest of
successes: an adult-oriented franchise with a built-in
audience and plenty of potential for sequels.

But Da Vinci, set for release in May, is shaping up as
one of the movie world's more complicated exercises —
so much so that Sony has dropped a scrim of secrecy
over the affair, refusing to discuss anything but the
barest details. The script has been closely
controlled. Outsiders have been banned from the set.
And those associated with the film have had to sign
confidentiality agreements.

The complete article is at
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3303056




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