Vatican to protest screening Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons
Published 24 March, 2009, 16:57
While Ron Howard is preparing to present his new movie Angels and Demons, based on the novel by Dan Brown, the Catholic Church is arguing over how to react.
The Vatican, which “cannot approve” of the film, plans to call Catholics all over the world to boycott the movie, La Stampa reports.
However Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, the head of the Vatican’s Prefecture for Economic Affairs, believes that may provoke extra publicity to the film-makers.
Ever since the famous novels saw the light, the Catholic Church neglects and derogates Dan Brown’s works because of the controversial religious undertones.
Last summer film-makers were denied permission to shoot the second Dan Brown novel in any of the main locations – Vatican and two Roman churches, Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria.
“Normally we read the script but this time it was not necessary; the name Dan Brown was enough,” says Father Marco Fibbi.
The story will revolve around saving the Vatican from being destroyed by an anti-matter bomb stolen from CERN laboratory in Switzerland.
The film is to be released in May, starring Tom Hanks as the main lead of Harvard professor Robert Langdon.
The first screening of the bestselling novel, the Da Vinci Code, presented back in 2006, infuriated the Vatican. That novel is based on the assumption that Jesus married Maria Magdalene and had children. India, China and Pakistan banned showing the film.
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