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Sir Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina Join the Cast The Da Vinci Code
Toronto Fashion-Monitor.com ^ | April 20, 2005

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.


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1 posted on 04/20/2005 1:12:59 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff

Hollywood can't get enough of this Catholic version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".


2 posted on 04/20/2005 1:14:29 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: churchillbuff

You mean "Ian McKellen, Rabid Homosexual and God/Bible/Christian Hater"? He's perfectly cast to be in the "DiVinci Fraud."


3 posted on 04/20/2005 1:15:18 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: wideawake

Neither can just about anyone else based on the sales figures. No one claims this anything other then a work of fiction.


4 posted on 04/20/2005 1:15:53 PM PDT by Borges
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To: churchillbuff
Here, I'll go ahead and fill in all the posts so others won't have to...

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!!!

5 posted on 04/20/2005 1:16:51 PM PDT by TheBigB (Proudly annoying stupid people since 1970!)
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To: churchillbuff

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'?


6 posted on 04/20/2005 1:17:41 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: TheBigB

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"


7 posted on 04/20/2005 1:17:54 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Kenny Bunkport

Boy, you certainly woke up on the wrong side of the bed...


8 posted on 04/20/2005 1:18:09 PM PDT by blowfish
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To: Borges

Ebert hates anything that the public likes by default. I could say the same thing about movies and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."


9 posted on 04/20/2005 1:18:56 PM PDT by TheBigB (Proudly annoying stupid people since 1970!)
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To: blowfish

No, I've read McKellen's unfortunate opinions about the Bible and Christians.


10 posted on 04/20/2005 1:20:14 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: TheBigB

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."


11 posted on 04/20/2005 1:20:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
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To: TheBigB

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.


12 posted on 04/20/2005 1:21:17 PM PDT by Borges
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To: wideawake

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.


13 posted on 04/20/2005 1:21:17 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Borges
Most people who read it believe that while the main events and characters of the novel are fictional, the background information is real - i.e., like the Tale of Two Cities, a fictional work set against the real background of the French Revolution.

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".

14 posted on 04/20/2005 1:21:31 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Borges
No one claims this anything other then a work of fiction.

Except for those who read it and consider it to be based upon fact.

15 posted on 04/20/2005 1:21:34 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: Borges

"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".


16 posted on 04/20/2005 1:21:46 PM PDT by poobear
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To: Borges

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.


17 posted on 04/20/2005 1:21:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: dfwgator
You think I care about what you think? You ain't Fiona Apple, and if you ain't Fiona Apple, I don't give a rat's ass!

Also Officer Barbrady. :-)

18 posted on 04/20/2005 1:22:28 PM PDT by TheBigB (Proudly annoying stupid people since 1970!)
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To: Kenny Bunkport
Except for those who read it and consider it to be based upon fact.

What's the word for those people? Oh yes...'Stupid'.
19 posted on 04/20/2005 1:22:47 PM PDT by Borges
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To: churchillbuff

That's a great idea. I hope someone passes your idea "upstairs."


20 posted on 04/20/2005 1:23:27 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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