Here is the full-length theatrical Angels & Demons trailer. It is the prequel to the 2006 movie “The Da Vinci Code.” See photos and the movie trailer video here. The highly anticipated movie will be released in U.S. theaters on Friday May 15, 2009.
Academy Award winning director Ron Howard was the director of the hugely popular though controversial “The Da Vinci Code” and he returns to direct “Angels & Demons,” and Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (picture above) reprises his role as Robert Langdon, a Harvard University professor of art history and religious symbology.
As seen in the Angels & Demons trailer video, this prequel revels that Langdon teams up with a beautiful Italian scientist, Vittoria Vetra, (Ayelet Zurer) and discovers the Illuminati, an ancient secret and powerful brotherhood, is involved in a conspiracy to destroy the Vatican.
As with “The Da Vinci Code” the new Angels & Demons movie is also an adaptation of the Dan Brown novel of the same title. Also returning to the prequel are producer, Brian Grazer, and screenwriter, Akiva Goldsman.
“The Da Vinci Code” was an international box office success, taking in $758 million worldwide. It was sharply criticized by the Vatican for its depiction of Catholic church history, and the controversy generated more publicity and interest in the movie.
The ‘Angels & Demons’ movie has also sparked Vatican disapproval due to its subject matter, which involves cardinals who are murdered and mutilated with strange, unknown symbols.
“We give authorizations to productions that are compatible with religious sentiment,” said the Rev. Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Rome diocese. “With Dan Brown’s books this problem exists.”
Father Fibbi went on to explain that the Vatican never gives permission for filming of its interior; and did not even make an exception for the mini-series on the life of Pope John Paul II. Filmmakers built full-scale replicas of churches, and to recreate the interior of the Vatican, used other locations, including The Caserta Palace.
The controversy the Angels & Demons trailer and speculation over the movie itself equaled the has not equaled the controversy of “Da Vinci Code”
Paul Dergarabedian of box office tracking firm Media By Numbers says Angels will need to impress critics if it hopes to find success.
“Da Vinci Code didn’t get great reviews, but had controversy to help the box office,” he says. “Better reviews could make up that difference for Angels.”
The Angels & Demons trailer does not reveal much, but the cinematography and dramatic tension and the premise of menacing, supernatural evil and murder in nearly two and a half minutes will make viewers want to know and see more.
Here are Angels & Demons movie photos. More photos and the Angels & Demons trailer video are below.
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