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20-08-05, 03:40 AM
Film is based on the novel & author’s claim that every description in his book was based on fact
For the up coming movie Tom Hanks and the rest of the cast and crew have started shooting in Paris and are to take over the Louvre museum – a key location – later today, the producers said.
The 100-million-dollar film version of the US novel penned by Dan Brown is due out in May next year.
It stars Hanks as its professorial hero Robert Langdon, who has to decipher a number of clues linked to historic works, including Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting, to crack a centuries-old secret protected by a mysterious and deadly sect.
French actors Audrey Tautou of Amelie fame and Jean Reno (The Professional, Godzilla) also feature in the movie, which is directed by Ron Howard, the onetime TV actor who made Cocoon, the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind and the upcoming Cinderella Man.
The Columbia-Sony studio behind the production has refused French media access to the locations. Several books in France and in the United States have highlighted inconsistencies and challenged the author’s claim that every description in his book was based on fact.
Filming began late yesterday at the Ritz hotel in central Paris, according to Le Parisien newspaper.
It was to continue all night at the nearby famous Louvre, where the “Mona Lisa” is kept, for the novel’s opening scene in which the museum’s fatally wounded director leaves a cry
For the up coming movie Tom Hanks and the rest of the cast and crew have started shooting in Paris and are to take over the Louvre museum – a key location – later today, the producers said.
The 100-million-dollar film version of the US novel penned by Dan Brown is due out in May next year.
It stars Hanks as its professorial hero Robert Langdon, who has to decipher a number of clues linked to historic works, including Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting, to crack a centuries-old secret protected by a mysterious and deadly sect.
French actors Audrey Tautou of Amelie fame and Jean Reno (The Professional, Godzilla) also feature in the movie, which is directed by Ron Howard, the onetime TV actor who made Cocoon, the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind and the upcoming Cinderella Man.
The Columbia-Sony studio behind the production has refused French media access to the locations. Several books in France and in the United States have highlighted inconsistencies and challenged the author’s claim that every description in his book was based on fact.
Filming began late yesterday at the Ritz hotel in central Paris, according to Le Parisien newspaper.
It was to continue all night at the nearby famous Louvre, where the “Mona Lisa” is kept, for the novel’s opening scene in which the museum’s fatally wounded director leaves a cry