Posted on 04/20/2005 1:12:58 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Ian McKellen, famous for his role of Gandalf, and Alfred Molina will be joining Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou in The Da Vinci Code.
Ian McKellen, famous for his role of Gandalf, the wizard from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Alfred Molina of Spider-Man 2 will be joining Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou in The Da Vinci Code, according to Variety.
Alfred Molina is set to play zealous Bishop Arigarosa, who’s keenly interested in the sleuthing activities of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) and cryptographer Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou).
Sir McKellen will play Sir Teabing, a wealthy man who acts as a resource for Langdon even as he shows his own ambitions to uncover the Holy Grail.
The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard is an adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller of the same name.
Production of The Da Vinci Code begins in June for a May 19. The Da Vinci Code will be released in 2006.
Hollywood can't get enough of this Catholic version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
You mean "Ian McKellen, Rabid Homosexual and God/Bible/Christian Hater"? He's perfectly cast to be in the "DiVinci Fraud."
Neither can just about anyone else based on the sales figures. No one claims this anything other then a work of fiction.
The DaVinci Code SUCKS!! It's terrible, poorly-written trash! It made my eyeballs bleed to read it!! My wife read it and got sterile!!!!! A man came and took away all my beer for reading it!! I can't overemphasize how BAD THIS BOOK IS!! IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT READING THIS BOOK I WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SHOW UP AT YOUR HOME AND SLAP YOU ACROSS THE FACE UNTIL YOU AGREE TO DO PENACE AND RENOUNCE NOT ONLY THE BOOK BUT THE AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, PUBLICIST, PROOFREADER, AND THE COMPANIES THAT MADE THE PAPER AND INK USED TO WRITE IT!!!
The unanswered Holy Grail question: If Jesus is just some guy that got crucified and had a baby, why should anyone care about his 'bloodline'?
Roger Ebert put it well... "The Da Vinci Code is a book to read only to come to the conclusion that life is too short to read books like the Da Vinci Code"
Boy, you certainly woke up on the wrong side of the bed...
Ebert hates anything that the public likes by default. I could say the same thing about movies and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
No, I've read McKellen's unfortunate opinions about the Bible and Christians.
Or as Office Barbrady from South Park would put it:
"Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read Da Vinci Code. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of s**t, I am never reading again."
Actually he's very populist for a respected critic...has given his Thumb Up to stuff like 'National Treasure' and 'The Matrix'. And he's become more so over the years.
If the Roman Catholic Church had the entrepreneurial and evangelical spirit of Evangelical Protestantism, it would see all this as an outreach opportunity -- and buy ads in movie theaters, to run just before the screening of "the Code," welcoming viewers to explore the true claims of Christ.
Therefore they accept wholesale all the false "historical" data about the Catholic Church and the biblical canon and accept Dan Brown's version of the life of Jesus as a "plausible theory".
Except for those who read it and consider it to be based upon fact.
"No one claims this anything other then a work of fiction."
Seems to be the 'mantra', or in other words, "I don't really hate Christianity, this is only a book of fiction".
Every person who I've talked to, who has read this book, claimed it was revealing a hidden truth. I would say the majority of readers believe it is more or less true. And the author has more or less presented it that way. The book heb plagiarized it from claimed to be nonfiction.
Also Officer Barbrady. :-)
That's a great idea. I hope someone passes your idea "upstairs."
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