 The
book that has been read by everyone in the world, at least twice, or so
it would seem now hits the big screen in a version directed by Ron
Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou.
Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman,
the Oscar©-winning director and writer of A Beautiful Mind, reunite to
bring Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the most popular and
controversial novels of our time, to the big screen with a cast headed
by two-time Academy Award© winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno,
Sir Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina.
While in Paris on business,
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (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. While
working to solve 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 -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a
gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Tautou), and learns the late
curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society
whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da
Vinci, among others.
In a breathless race through
Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless
powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and
Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient
secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.
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