Ron Howard to direct "The Da Vinci Code" movie

[ALago1]

According to IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/
It's scheduled to be released in 2005 sometime.

I've just finished reading the book and was quite intrigued. Now I want to do some research on whether or not the claims made in it are true or not. Anyone have knowledge about things such as the Priory of Sion or the symbology in Da Vinci's paintings?

Hopefully Ron will do a decent job as I think it has some potential to be a good flick.

[flamingyouth]

1. I'm very excited about that

I just bought a book today called "The Church of Mary Magdalene," as I too am on a DaVinci Code-related kick.:hi:

[Gothic Sponge]

2. I'm not a big Ron Howard fan

I liked him better on Happy Days!


:thumbsup:

[indigobusiness]

3. Opie is his best work.

Aunt B was hot.

[Gothic Sponge]

4. Aunt B?.....I f**ked her!

;)

[Spinzonner]

5. Nah

The Music Man

WInthrop

[jus_the_facts]

6. Coolness...can't wait to see it......

....read the book in literally hours...just could NOT put it down...betcha Opie Cuttingham will do it justice...he's an Oscar winnin' director...have enjoyed all his work m'self so far...my favorite of his is Parenthood...a perfect referrence material as to why I've never wanted to reproduce lol!! :evilgrin:

[Elidor]

7. Yawn

Howard is a competent, workmanlike director. That's putting it nicely. May he burn in hell for his assault on Seuss. The man has not the slightest iota of style, nor of subtlety or taste. He is the directorial equivalent of cotton-candy. I expect nothing less than burning mediocrity from him.

[jus_the_facts]

8. I refuse to watch 'Cat In The Hat'.....and 'Grinch*

....just seemed wrong to do those from the beginnin'...but Parenthood is my favorite o'his work! :hi:

[JCMach1]

9. Cat in the Hat was one of the worst movies of the year

[Lindsey]

10. I thought "A Beautiful Mind" was excellent..

I also loved "Parenthood." I think that he kind of runs hot and cold.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Damn right

You said it better than I did. Burning mediocrity, though at least competent and workmanlike. Plus no style and no subtlety.

I would not say he's not the directorial equivalent of cotton-candy. I would say he's the directorial equivalent of unsweatened cotton-candy that you don't know is unsweatened until you've paid for it, because it looked just like cotton-candy from the outside.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Well, another story that he can destroy with his vapid "direction"

Very sad.

I don't know or understand why anyone putting up the money for a movie would allow that POS to direct it. Every movie he's done has sucked. but not in a totally sucky way, just in a way that one wuold expect from a watered-down empty Spielberg-wannabe; and please remember that I am not a Spielberg fan, either, because of his emotional manipulation, feel-good attitude, and otherwise bad style (though he can do a good one when he wants to, ala Raiders and Schindler's, so he's not totally bad)

Backdraft - sucked
Parenthood - sucked
Grinch - sucked
Beautiful Mind - sucked
last year's Tommy Lee Jones/Cate Blanchett movie - sucked

And now I'll be able to add

DaVinci Code - sucked

And it's so sad because he always starts with great stories, lots of potential with them, good writing - and he gets good actors to work with him - and then he just screws it all up because he really doesn't have any artistic sense. He's at a Hallmark or Kinkade level of artistry.

[chenGOD]

13. I don't expect much, cause he has gone downhill...

but some of his movies have been quite well directed.

EdTv (not just a lame copy of the Truman Show)
Willow
Splash

Were all quite watchable and enjoyable. Especially Willow..:)

But yeah I don't expect him to do much with a story of the complexity of The Davinci Code....

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Thanks for agreeing!

I can't imagine a worse director for a book of that complexity, exccept maybe that guy who runs freerepublic, cuz I'm sure that guy thinks the book is entirely true and a documentary.

[Bridget Burke]

15. "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" by Baigent, Lee & Lincoln

Haven't read "The Da Vinci Code" but I believe the Baigent book is a heavy influence. Interesting stuff to read with a certain tolerant skepticism. Did these events actually occur? Whether or not they did, have others throughout history believed they had?

Keep browsing--in bookstores, libraries or online. There's a lot of this stuff out there. Perhaps not literal history but interesting psychologically & artistically.

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is another novel that tells the hidden truth (tm) about secret things; sort of an Illuminatus Trilogy without the sex & drugs!