Robert Langdon | |
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Directed by | Ron Howard |
Based on | Robert Langdon novels by Dan Brown |
Starring | Tom Hanks (See list below) |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
2006–2016 | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $350 million[1] |
Box office | $1,463,474,856[1] |
- Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.
- Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.
- NBC has given a formal pilot order to Langdon, a drama based on Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller novel The Lost Symbol, as the network is wrapping up its pilot pickups.
The Robert Langdon films (or Robert series) are a series of American action-adventuremystery-thriller films directed by Ron Howard. The films, based on the novel series written by Dan Brown, center around the fictional character of Robert Langdon. Though based on the book series, the films have a different chronological order, consisting of: The Da Vinci Code (2006), Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016). Despite negative critical reception, the film series as a whole has grossed almost $1.5 billion worldwide.
Development[edit]
Dan Brown's novels about Professor Robert Langdon: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003) and Inferno (2013), quickly became international bestsellers; they were soon adapted into films by Columbia Pictures with Ron Howard directing and producing.
Author Dan Brown explains why The Lost Symbol hasn’t been made into a movie yet and why he's cool with the filmmakers changing some of the Inferno story. Author Dan Brown explains why The Lost.
Films[edit]
Film | U.S. release date | Director | Screenwriter(s) | Producer(s) |
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The Da Vinci Code | May 19, 2006 | Ron Howard | Akiva Goldsman | Brian Grazer and John Calley |
Angels & Demons | May 15, 2009 | Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp | Brian Grazer, John Calley and Ron Howard | |
Inferno | October 28, 2016 | David Koepp | Brian Grazer and Ron Howard |
The Da Vinci Code (2006)[edit]
A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Angels & Demons (2009)[edit]
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon continues to work to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
Inferno (2016)[edit]
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Television[edit]
Following the worldwide successes of the first two films,[2][3]Columbia Pictures began development on a film adaptation of The Lost Symbol.[4][5] Hanks and Howard were scheduled to return as star and director, with Brian Grazer and John Calley as producers, while a script was collectively co-written by Steven Knight,[6] original author Dan Brown,[7] and Danny Strong.[8] By January 2013, the final draft of the script was near completion, with pre-production expected to start later that year.[9] However, in July Sony Pictures announced they would adapt Inferno as the next film instead.[10][11]
In June 2019, the project was announced to be re-conceived as a television series tentatively titled Langdon. The series will serve as a prequel to the film series, with Daniel Cerone serving as creator, showrunner, chief executive producer, and screenwriter. Dan Brown, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo, Samie Falvey and Anna Culp will act as additional executive producers. The show will be a co-production between Imagine Television Studios, CBS Television Studios, and Universal Television Studios and was ordered to series on NBC.
The plot reportedly revolves around a young Robert Langdon, who is hired by the CIA to solve a number of deadly puzzles when his mentor goes missing.[12] By March 2020, Ashley Zukerman had been cast in the lead role.[13]
Cast and characters[edit]
- A Y indicates the actor portrayed the role of a younger version of the character.
Character | Film | ||||
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The Da Vinci Code | Angels & Demons | Inferno | |||
Professor Robert Langdon | Tom Hanks | Uncredited actorY | Tom Hanks | ||
Sophie Neveu | Audrey Tautou | Garance MazureckY | |||
Daisy Doidge-HillY | Lilli Ella KelleherY | ||||
Sir Leigh Teabing The Teacher | Ian McKellen | ||||
Bishop Manuel Aringarosa | Alfred Molina | ||||
Capt. Bezu Fache | Jean Reno | ||||
André Vernet | Jürgen Prochnow | ||||
Silas | Paul Bettany | Hugh MitchellY | |||
Jacques Saunière | Jean-Pierre Marielle | ||||
Remy Jean | Jean-Yves Berteloot | ||||
Father Patrick McKenna | Ewan McGregor | ||||
Dr. Vittoria Vetra | Ayelet Zurer | ||||
Cdr. Maximilian Richter | Stellan Skarsgård | ||||
Cardinal Strauss | Armin Mueller-Stahl | ||||
Lt. Chartrand | Thure Lindhardt | ||||
Dr. Sienna Brooks | Felicity Jones | ||||
Christoph Bouchard | Omar Sy | ||||
Bertrand Zobrist | Ben Foster | ||||
Elizabeth Sinskey | Sidse Babett Knudsen | ||||
Harry Sims The Provost | Irrfan Khan |
Additional crew and production details[edit]
Film | Composer | Cinematographer | Editor(s) | Production companies | Distributing companies | Running time |
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The Da Vinci Code | Hans Zimmer | Salvatore Totino | Dan Hanley & Mike Hill | Columbia Pictures Imagine Entertainment Skylark Productions Government of Malta | Sony Pictures Releasing Columbia Pictures | 2hr 28min |
Angels & Demons | Columbia Pictures Imagine Entertainment Skylark Productions Panorama Film Studios | 2hr 18min | ||||
Inferno | Dan Hanley & Tom Elkins | Columbia Pictures Imagine Entertainment LSG Productions LS Capital Film Corporation Mid Atlantic Films | 2hr 1min |
Reception[edit]
Box office performance[edit]
Film | Box office gross | Box office ranking | Budget | Ref(s) | ||||
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Opening weekend (North America) | North America | Other territories | Worldwide | All time North America | All time worldwide | |||
The Da Vinci Code | $77,073,388 | $217,536,138 | $540,703,713 | $758,239,851 | #146 | #71 | $125 million | [14] |
Angels & Demons | $46,204,168 | $133,375,846 | $352,554,970 | $485,930,816 | #390 | #170 | $150 million | [15] |
Inferno | $14,860,425 | $34,343,574 | $185,677,685 | $220,021,259 | #2,244 | #586 | $75 million | [16] |
Total | $385,255,558 | $1,078,936,368 | $1,464,191,926 | $350 million | [1] |
Critical and public response[edit]
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
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The Da Vinci Code | 24% (225 reviews)[17] | 46 (40 reviews)[18] | B+[19] |
Angels & Demons | 37% (255 reviews)[20] | 48 (36 reviews)[21] | B+[19] |
Inferno | 23% (238 reviews)[22] | 42 (47 reviews)[23] | B+[19] |
Difference between novels and films[edit]
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The Da Vinci Code[edit]
- In the film, Sophie is the last of Jesus' bloodline, Jacques Saunière is not her actual grandfather, but she has a surviving brother who is also part of the bloodline. In the novel, Saunière is Sophie's grandfather.
- In the novel, there are two cryptexes, one (white and large) from Saunière's bank locker and another (black and smaller) from the larger cryptex.
- Sophie is a love interest for Langdon in the novel while there is no attraction present in the film.
Angels & Demons[edit]
There are many differences between the novel and the film.[24]
- In the novel, the papal conclave attracts relatively little public attention. In the wake of the huge international interest in the 2005 election of Pope Benedict XVI, this was judged to be out of date.[25]
- The character of CERN Director Maximillian Kohler does not appear in the film.
- The Italian Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca is changed to the Irish Patrick McKenna, portrayed by Ewan McGregor.
- The Boeing X-33 that takes Langdon from the United States to Geneva and then to Rome is absent in the film.
- In the novel, Commander Olivetti is the commander of Swiss Guard, and his second-in-command is Captain Rocher, whereas in the film, Richter is the head of the Swiss Guard.
- In the novel, the Assassin contacts members of the BBC in order to influence how they present the story of his activities, but this does not happen in the film.
- The character Leonardo Vetra is named Silvano Bentivoglio in the film, is not related to Vittoria and his death scene is changed.
- Vittoria is a love interest for Langdon in the novel while there is no attraction present in the film.
- In the novel, Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca is revealed to be the late pope's biological son, in the film he is his adoptive son.
- In the book, the assassin has Middle Eastern looks whereas in the movie he is portrayed by a Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas. In the film, he is killed by a car bomb, whereas in the book he falls from a balcony at the top of the Castel Sant'Angelo and breaks his back on a pile of marble cannonballs which eventually kills him.
- In the novel, Vittoria is kidnapped, whereas in the film, she follows Langdon almost everywhere. In the book, all four preferiti are killed by the assassin and eventually the high elector, Cardinal Saverio Mortati, is elected as the new pope whereas in the film, the fourth preferito, Cardinal Baggia, is saved by Langdon and is elected the new pope. The high elector, renamed Cardinal Strauss, becomes the Camerlengo to the new pope.
- In the end, the new Camerlengo hands over Galileo's book to Langdon instead of a Swiss Guard handing the 5th brand, the Illuminati diamond (which is also different in the movie and looks like two crossed keys). In the movie before the explosion Langdon doesn't get on the helicopter unlike in the book where he does and right before the explosion jumps out, barely surviving.
Inferno[edit]
- In the novel, the Inferno Virus causes sterility in one third of the human population. At the end of the novel it is revealed that the virus was released before the events of the book, as the date given in the video was when the virus would be worldwide, thus searching for its whereabouts was futile. In the film, the virus was projected to kill one half of the human population but was contained by Sinskey and the WHO.
- In the novel, Dr. Sienna Brooks intends to prevent the virus from being released and to destroy it as she believes Governments and other organisations will use it as a weapon and at the end of the novel she is offered a position in the WHO in order to address the crisis.
- In the novel, Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey is not a former romantic interest of Robert Langdon.
- In the novel, Sienna Brooks has blonde hair that is actually a wig whereas in the film, she has long, black hair.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Robert Langdon'. Box Office Mojo. November 13, 2016.
- ^'The Da Vinci Code'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
- ^'Angels & Demons'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
- ^Fleming, Michael (2009-04-20). 'Columbia moves on 'Symbol''. Variety.com. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^'The Mystery of Dan Brown'. The Guardian. London. September 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
- ^Siegel, Tatiana (February 3, 2010). 'Columbia finds 'Symbol'; Knight to adapt third book in 'Da Vinci Code' series'. Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
- ^Fernandez, Jay A.; Kit, Borys (2010-12-20). 'EXCLUSIVE: Dan Brown Taking Over 'Lost Symbol' Screenplay'. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^Williams, Owen (March 2, 2012). 'New Writer For The Lost Symbol: Dan Brown 3 gets an overhaul'. Empire
- ^Nicole Sperling (January 15, 2013). 'Dan Brown: What's the film status of his book 'The Lost Symbol'?'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^Tom Hanks' 'Inferno' Shifts Opening to 2016
- ^'Tom Hanks And Ron Howard To Return For Next Dan Brown Movie 'Inferno'; Sony Sets December 2015 Release Date'. Deadline Hollywood. July 16, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^https://deadline.com/2019/06/robert-langdon-drama-dan-brown-the-lost-symbol-nbc-imagine-tv-studios-1202627753/
- ^https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/robert-langdon-nbc-pilot-ashley-zukerman-1203520978/
- ^'The Da Vinci Code'. Box Office Mojo. October 22, 2016.
- ^'Angels & Demons'. Box Office Mojo. October 22, 2016.
- ^'Inferno'. Box Office Mojo. November 13, 2016.
- ^'The Da Vinci Code'. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ^'The Da Vinci Code'. Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ^ abc'Cinemascore'. Cinemascore.com. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ^'Angels & Demons'. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ^'Angels & Demons'. Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ^'Inferno'. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
- ^'Inferno'. Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
- ^'What's the Difference between Angels and Demons the Book and Angels and Demons the Movie'. thatwasnotinthebook.com. Retrieved 18 Oct 2013.
- ^Hanks, Tom; interviewed by Charlie Rose (May 13, 2009). 'A conversation about the film 'Angels and Demons''. PBS television (transcript). Archived from the original on May 17, 2009. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
External links[edit]
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I’ve finished Dan Brown’s new Robert Langdon thriller, Origin, and I suppose it’s significant that it took me more than a week. At no point did I feel compelled to stay up all night to finish it. In fact, my reading speed slowed at the somewhat talky climax.
Others have mocked Brown as a writer. Not exactly George Eliot, a friend sniffs. And it’s true that he reaches hungrily for clichés. Yet generating plots for novels like this one, or his best-known book, The Da Vinci Code, generously sprinkled with intriguing intellectual tidbits, is no unimpressive feat. You try it! He’s the #7 bestseller on Amazon at the moment. That’s for a good reason.
You could attack him, too, for using, or abusing, the research of MIT physicist Jeremy England. What follows is a spoiler, so be warned: At the climax, Brown recounts the contents of a splashy video by atheist computer savant and “futurist” Edmond Kirsch, supposedly demonstrating that England in his research has explained how life originated through the laws of physics alone. This echoes a claim about Dr. England made by some journalists, which we’ve addressed before.
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England himself protested last week in a well-timed Wall Street Journal article, pointing out that he himself is a religious believer, an Orthodox Jew, and that the physics of life’s origin presented in Brown’s book is a vacant space: “There’s no real science in the book to argue over.”
That’s all fine, but in a book pushing atheism, with a warm nod to assisted suicide as an added bonus, I was startled to find the protagonist, Langdon, endorsing a familiar argument for intelligent design. The argument is made in various forms by Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Phillip Johnson, and others. Yes, it’s “only vaguely described,” as England says of his own work as touted in the book. But it’s nevertheless recognizable.
Here is the story in a nutshell, and again be warned of spoilers. Computer genius Edmond Kirsch is semiotician Robert Langdon’s former Harvard student. Kirsch, an eccentric billionaire, calls Langdon to Spain for the world premiere of the video proving how life originated on Earth without design, or God, through physical laws. At the swank event at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Kirsch is assassinated by a mysterious admiral retired from the Spanish Armada.
Langdon embarks on a rapid journey across Spain, with many lessons about the history of art, politics, and religion sprinkled along his path. He’s accompanied by the disembodied voice of Kirsch’s computer assistant, Winston, an unprecedented wonder of AI, and Ambra Vidal, beautiful and brilliant fiancée of the Prince of Spain, soon to be King when his ailing father dies. Several further murders occur across Europe and the Middle East. Meanwhile, Winston, Langdon, and Ambra seek a code that will allow the world to view the amazing, transformative atheist video.
It’s not really as silly as that sounds. But now to the punchline. While Brown never writes about ID by name, the debate about so-called “creationism” is on his mind, with mentions of Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box, two titles by Phillip Johnson (Darwin on Trial, Defeating Darwinism), atheists Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and invoking Daniel Dennett on how “complex biological designs” could arise unguided through natural selection. A hero of the story is Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), his work infused with “biological design” and “biomimetic design.”
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Kirsch thinks computer simulations have demonstrated that the seeming designs of biology are entirely explained in materialist terms, a play of entropy and order. What about Langdon, hero of Brown’s series of bestselling novels?
Once almost all the action is over, Ambra Vidal puts this question to Langdon directly. She asks: “[A]re the laws of physics enough?” Do “laws spontaneously create life”? Langdon answers with a discussion of patterns versus codes.
A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature — the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, et cetera.
On the other hand, “Codes are special….Codes, by definition, must carry information. They must do more than simply form a pattern — codes must transmit data and convey meaning.” The kicker:
[C]odes do not occur naturally in the world. Musical notation does not sprout from trees, and symbols do not draw themselves in the sand. Codes are the deliberate inventions of intelligent consciousness.
Ambra answers, “So codes always have an intention or awareness behind them.”
Langdon: “Exactly. Codes don’t appear organically; they must be created.”
Ambra: “What about DNA?”
Langdon: “Bingo….The genetic code. That’s the paradox.”
Ambra: “You think DNA was created by an intelligence!”
Langdon: “Easy, tiger!…You’re treading on dangerous ground.” She sure is. And yet, he goes on:
When I witness the precision of mathematics, the reliability of physics, the symmetries of the cosmos, I don’t feel like I’m observing cold science; I feel as if I’m seeing a living footprint…the shadow of some greater force that is just beyond our grasp.
But this, all of it, is exactly something that proponents of intelligent design say. The leap from law-driven patterns, needing no inference to design, to the coded information in DNA, bearing meaning and absolutely requiring such an inference, is a major theme in Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell. Arguably it’s the major theme. “Repetitive patterns,” Meyer says, like the ones cited by Brown, can be the work of “natural causes and processes,” “law-like necessity.” Code, on the other hand, whether in the form of computer code or DNA, must trace back to an intelligent agent. It deliberately conveys meaning in every case we know, thus requiring a designer.
ID advocates often give the illustration of the repetitive pattern in snowflakes and other crystals, a product of physical laws just like the patterns that Langdon mentions, triggering no design inference.
Here’s Phillip Johnson:
The heart of the problem is that physical laws are simple and general, and by their nature they produce the same thing over and over again. Law-governed processes can produce simple repetitive patterns, as in crystals, but they can’t produce the complex, specified sequences by which the nucleotides of DNA code for proteins any more than they can produce the sequence of letters on a page of the Bible.
William Dembski contrasts the formation of snowflakes, “irrelevant to the processes necessary to generate biological information,” with that of the bacterial flagellum. The issue is Complex and Specified Information. Here is Casey Luskin writing right here at Evolution News:
Snowflakes are a crystal, and form easily by natural laws. They actually have a very low level of complexity. Download autocad 2018 bagas31. Like all crystals, they can be described easily by the laws that govern chemical bonding and atomic packing. For that reason, among others, nobody claims that snowflakes or crystals require explanation by design. Because they are characterized by low CSI, or “Complex and Specified Information,” we wouldn’t expect them to trigger a design inference.
“Easy, tiger! You’re treading on dangerous ground.”
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I don’t, obviously, have any idea what Dan Brown was trying to communicate to his legions of fans and readers. A message of atheism? Or of intelligent design? No, he’s no George Eliot, but this is an interesting book in part because at the end it seems so conflicted about what it wants to say.
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A fuller presentation of ID, in the form of a Dan Brown-style thriller, is available in Bruce Buff’s recent book, The Soul of the Matter. Buff is the better prose writer, and frankly his story is the more dramatically tense of the two.
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But good for Mr. Brown. He appears to have waded a little distance into the design debate. Will he go further? We’ll look forward to his next book and see.
Photo: Dan Brown, by Web Summit [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.