The Code…is back
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- June
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The Archdiocese of Rome will not allow the filming of scenes for the upcoming Angels & Demons at Catholic churches in the Eternal City.
Angels & Demons, of course, is based on a novel by Dan Brown, author of the mucho controversial Da Vinci Code. The Code (in case you’re among the 12 people who didn’t read it) is a novel that insists it is based on real facts. And its plot centers around a 2,000-year-old conspiracy orchestrated by the Vatican to cover up the truth about Jesus and the roots of Christianity.
Angels & Demons (which, like the movie version of the Code, will star Tom Hanks) is a prequel to the Code and is set mostly in Rome.
Apparently, the film’s producers asked the city for permission to film in several churches. But the city asked the archdiocese. And the answer was no.
“I don’t think they would have asked us directly because they knew what the answer would be,” the Rev. Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the archdiocese, told Reuters.
Here’s the real issue: If the movie inspires protests, I may have to read the book.
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