Hmm George Clooney, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks and Hugh Jackman all in one movie?

Turkish

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Da Vinci star power

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George Clooney, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, and Hugh Jackman are all in the running to star in a film adaptation of the runaway best-selling book, "The Da Vinci Code," according to author Dan Brown.

Brown disclosed the names of the potential stars of the flick when speaking to an audience in Concord, New Hampshire recently ? and the crowd gave the loudest applause to Clooney, reports the Union Leader of Manchester.

Brown said he resisted having his book made into a film, but Miramax head Harvey Weinstein convinced him that the public needs to know about "The Da Vinci Code" ? and most people don?t read.

?He absolutely appealed to my ego,? Brown said. Paramount, however, is making the film.

woah, I didn't know about this.
 

athithi

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It seemed like it was written for a movie. The premise was fascinating, but he started at Frederick Forsythe, went past Jeffrey Archer ended up somewhere below John Grisham. I hope they tighten up the movie and make it more realistic.
 

CanOWorms

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sounds to me that they're not all to be in the movie, but competing for the lead role. Sorry if you already knew this, but the title sounds like you're saying they're all going to be in the same movie!
 

monk3y

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Hopefully they won't ruin the book with the movie. Sounds like it has potential though.
 

NeoV

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who will play Silas though? None of those guys are Silas material, and he could be the real star of the movie..

your thread title should say "all up for the same role", or something to that effect..
 

Mr N8

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I can't believe you all bought into that book. What a load of crap. It was well written, and was a good read, but it was totally unfounded.
 

Passions

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Originally posted by: MogulMonster
I can't believe you all bought into that book. What a load of crap. It was well written, and was a good read, but it was totally unfounded.

WTF! Are you telling me that Mary Magelene was not Jesus' lover!?????????? :|
 

Arkitech

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Wow this sounds interesting. I just started reading Angels and Demons yesterday, I'll definitely have to pick up the Da Vinci Code
 

azazyel

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Originally posted by: maziwanka
man. was the book really this good?

No, it isn't. All it does is make some people think that they are learing a secret. Truth is the guy is just restating theories that have been arround a very long time.
 

TheShiz

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it seemed to me like the book was written to be made into a movie. with its 3 page chapters, no attention span writing style, goofy action sequences and character interactions. honestly i found the book pretty bad, movie won't be much better.
 

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Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: maziwanka
man. was the book really this good?

No, it isn't. All it does is make some people think that they are learing a secret. Truth is the guy is just restating theories that have been arround a very long time.

It is a secret to some people. I've never known about this before. Nothing was 'popular' enough to catch the public eye, so yes, in a way, this does help expose the 'true' knowledge that was hidden.

That's just like the novel then... the theories themselves are hidden. So it's funny, because Dan Brown is on the quest for HIS grail to educate the public about this. Symbolism man.
 
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Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: maziwanka
man. was the book really this good?

No, it isn't. All it does is make some people think that they are learing a secret. Truth is the guy is just restating theories that have been arround a very long time.

WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT!!!!!
I'm to lazy to leave anandtech and look it up myself.
 

simms

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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon 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. Solving 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?and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, 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. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei?a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret?and a stunning historical truth?will be lost forever.

In an exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown's bestselling Angels & Demons) is the most original character to appear in years. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightening-paced, intelligent thriller?surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly unpredictable?right up to its astonishing conclusion.
 

Doggiedog

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Those choices are interesting. Each actor is very different and I can see one with Russell Crowe more edgy, George Clooney more actiony and Tom Hanks a little brighter and more light hearted.
 

TheBoyBlunder

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That'd be an interesting movie, though I'd probably skip it. The book read like a movie script, but it was a very interesting premise.