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Summary:
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ('Tom Hanks') receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
Release: May 19, 2006/May 30, 2006
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Actors/Actresses: Tom Hanks, Jean Reno, Audrey Tautou, Christopher Eccleston (in talks), Kate Beckinsale (rumored)
Notes: "The Da Vinci Code" has been on nationwide best seller lists virtually non-stop since it was released by Doubleday in 2003, including 87 weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Over 20 million copies of the novel are in print worldwide and the book has been translated into 42 different languages.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/ and http://movies.go.com/moviesdynamic/movies/movie?id=635349
Summary:
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ('Tom Hanks') receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
Release: May 19, 2006/May 30, 2006
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Actors/Actresses: Tom Hanks, Jean Reno, Audrey Tautou, Christopher Eccleston (in talks), Kate Beckinsale (rumored)
Notes: "The Da Vinci Code" has been on nationwide best seller lists virtually non-stop since it was released by Doubleday in 2003, including 87 weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Over 20 million copies of the novel are in print worldwide and the book has been translated into 42 different languages.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/ and http://movies.go.com/moviesdynamic/movies/movie?id=635349
