In 2003, Sony Pictures acquired rights to the “Angels and Demons Movie” along with “The Da Vinci Code” in a deal with author Dan Brown. In May 2006, following the film release of “The Da Vinci Code,” Sony hired Oscar winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the film adaptation of “The Da Vinci Code,” to adapt “Angels and Demons” into a movie. In November 2006, a teaser trailer of the “Angels And Demons Movie” was shown on the “The Da Vinci Code” DVD.
In the movie “Angels & Demons” two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks reprises his role as Robert Langdon and receive the highest salary ever for an actor – $75,000,000, (including a portion of the film’s profits).
“Angels And Demons Movie” is the sequel to the movie “The DaVinci Code.” However, the book “Angels & Demons” was the prequel to the movie “The Davinci Code.”
The “Angels and Demons Movie” tells the story of Robert (Tom Hanks) Langdon’s brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the world’s most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered.
– in theaters 2012 – is the third in “The DaVinci Code” series.