Langdon has been cast for the Da Vinci Code movie

[Jason Fraker]

For those of you who care, Tom Hanks will play Robert Langdon in Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code movie. Not my first pick, but Hanks'll get the job done. My guess for release date: Summer 2006

-Jason

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can even put on its shoes.
-Mark Twain

[morea]

I've actually been meaning to read the Da Vinci code, but doubt that I'll get to it any time soon. Perhaps I shall find a book on tape... I spend enough time in the car now!

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

[Jason Fraker]

It's a really fast-paced thriller, morea. It's a little heavy on fantasy and light on facts, but a great read if you don't take it too seriously. I have a 45-55 minute commute, but I mainly spend it listening to talk radio. That'll all change when I get an ipod mini for Christmas, though!

-Jason

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can even put on its shoes.
-Mark Twain

[morea]

I need an mp3 player, or need to burn some cds, or SOMETHING! My drive is just over an hour each way (which will be fine until the snow gets here). Cat told me that it can actually take 3 hours to get home in the snow, and that's providing that our little car decides to stay on the road this year! It's got a tendency to slide into ditches. Ugh!

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

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[D-Frag]

awesome book, im glad they chose Tom Hanks as Langdon, I think he will do a great job. The whole time reading that book, I kept thinking to myself, damn they should make this into a movie.......alas it is being done, with my luck the movie won't come close to the suspense in the book.

on a side note, I hadn't read a book cover to cover in about 10+ years until I read the Da Vinci Code, and I read that whole book in under a week, some of my friends read it straight through in one sitting. I have since bought every book ever written by Dan Brown, and I can tell you all of his books are excellent reading, esp: Angels & Demons (about the Illuminati conspiring with the catholic church) and Digital Fortress (about the NSA's super code breaking computer) anyways, if ya liked Da Vinci Code, you will love his other books, go out and buy them, you won't be dissapointed!

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[Silence04]

i saw a documentry called 'Breaking The DaVinci Code' a few weeks ago... they were showing DaVinci's view of christian faith by revealing secrets/hidden meanings in all of his paintings.
it also was about how christianity has been blown so out of perportion that only a fraction of christians actually know what thier religion is 'really' about, and not some book of fables.

good movie/documentary, maybe not so good for the die-hard christians that don't like the truth smacked in thier face...

i didn't know there was an actual movie coming out, whats it about?

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[morea]

I saw that documentary... enjoyed it, actually. Actually, I think that most Christians are pretty accepting... while I didn't agree with everything that was said I watched it with a pretty open mind.

I think that people who can think for themselves and draw their own conclusionsprobably won't have a problem with it. Fanatics (or sheep, as I call them), on the other hand might feel differently.

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

[PrintDriver]

I read 'The Da Vinci Code' in a couple of sittings after reading Angels & Demons straight thru. Definitely suspend your reality switch while reading either. What really gets me is that the NY Times Best Seller list touts it as 'deeply researched'.
Ya, right.

For a real look at the errors in this book, check out 'The Da Vinci Hoax'. While written by an editor or writer for a Christian magazine, it is dead to rights in picking out all of the 'facts' Dan Brown supposedly researched. A lot of it is published on-line.

What gets me is the author going on talk shows and spouting his 'facts'.

Sad that the blind masses will take the book and the movie as fact. For an entertaining afternoon, read the reviews on Amazon. They are a hoot.

Anyone notice that the two books have the exact same plot?
a murder.
professor called in.
meets daughter of murdered victim.
some form of church 'corruption'.
the butler did it.

Don't know why Da Vinci did better than Angels. A&D came out first.

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[Jason Fraker]

PD, all three of Dan Brown's pre Da Vinci novels had combined sales of about 20,000 copies. Then DVC comes out and sells roughly 8 million copies with hardcover re-releases of the three other novels. This guy has had phenomenal success, but it was only after four years of writing novels and not selling them. He's persistant, you have to give him that. And he knows what sells. His website has the formula he uses to write these thrillers, and it never fails to thrill, even if it is total BS with cardboard characters and cheesy dialogue. I stumbled onto DVC and was then all over his other books like white on rice.

BTW, the next 'Langdon' thriller takes place on US soil and will involve the history of Washington D.C., the Masons & the CIA. Should be out by summer 2005.

-Jason

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can even put on its shoes.
-Mark Twain

[PrintDriver]

I think he was beat by the movie 'National Treasure'.
Sounds like the same story line.
Can't wait to see how he mangles US history.

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[inevadropit]

I'm right there with you. Both of my parents have read it and it's now sitting in my book case gathering dust. School + Work = hardly any time to do anything. I'm a senior in highschool. Up at 7:30 in class by 8:45. School lets out at 4:05 and work starts at 5:00. I don't get out until about 10:00. Then it's off to the books and doing some hw. I put down the books for awhile though and stumbled on this site. I've been looking for a good place to be and learn about the business and it looks like I've found it.



morea said...
I've actually been meaning to read the Da Vinci code, but doubt that I'll get to it any time soon. Perhaps I shall find a book on tape... I spend enough time in the car now!

[morea]

makes me wish I could just upload things into my brain, like in the Matrix!

and welcome to the gdf!

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.