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30Dec2008

Preview of 'Angels & Demons' and Its Backlash

DateTuesday, December 30, 2008 at 9:13AM
The Da Vinci Code was an enormous success back in 2006, although had the movie been as entertaining as National Treasure, who knows what the ceiling could have been for it. Still, $750 million worth of movie tickets sold told us what we already knew: There will be other Dan Brown movies.

This summer, we'll get the Da Vinci prequel, Angels & Demons, which will feature Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) in a much less obvious wig. The Catholics were ready and waiting for director Ron Howard and company, both forbiding the film from being shot near religious locations in Rome (although we're still going to see some guerilla footage in the movie, according to Howard) and beginning their assault on the film's message earlier and louder than they did in 2006.

Obviously, there are millions and millions of people who believe some of what they believe in the Dan Brown books, and that scares Catholics, because their entire foundation is kind of cut off at the knees in his completely fictional stories. Maybe there's something to the Illuminati stuff and maybe there's not, but as Dr. House reminds us, if you could reason with religious people there would be no religious people.

This week, Good Morning America correspondent Chris Connelly previewed Angels & Demons, talking with a critic of the film and its message, and giving us a little more production footage of the movie.


Video courtesy of Defamer

Can this make a lot of money when it hits theaters in May? Yes, and because everyone I've talked to says it's a better book than Da Vinci, it could be even more successful than that film. Will it single-handedly bring about the fall of the Catholic Church? Well, if it could withstand Sister Act 2, it should be fine.

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