Tom Hanks, Ron Howard Not Welcome In Rome Churches
TOM HANKS and director RON HOWARD have been forbidden from filming in two Roman churches by religious leaders.
The pair is making the prequel to controversial film The Da Vinci Code in the Italian city and asked permission to shoot in two churches considered vital to the storyline in Dan Brown's book Angels + Demons.
But Rome's diocese has told producers they'll have to film elsewhere, due to the controversial nature of the plot.
A spokesman for the diocese says, "It's a film that treats religious issues in a way that contrasts with common religious sentiment.
"We would be helping them create a work that might well be beautiful but that does not conform to our views."
The film deals with suggestions that Jesus was a married father when he died. Dan Brown's books about the mysterious Opus Dei, a secret society which protects the bloodline of Jesus, and Howard and Hanks' 2006 The Da Vinci Code film have upset Catholic leaders throughout the world.
But despite the ban, director Howard will be allowed to film exteriors of the churches, Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria.
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Spoilsports - some people really are.
The Rome's Diocese is being a Spoilsport.
Dan Brown's work is work of Fiction (although he does get help from some real historic events that the Church will not confess because it is a bitter truth.)
But I can tell you right now. What feeds, protects me,facilitates today is Science and not Religion.
Religion is for those people who are idle and nothing else to do.If each and every person on earth gets engaged and STAYS ENGAGED in academic education and chooses proper fields as careers in their lives and look to real flesh and blood people for inspiration (especially in times of trouble) like Leonardo Da Vinci,Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawkins, Bruce Lee, Denzel Washington... pretty much anybody who is intelligent and has done some important positive work in life and inspired others to do so, Then THERE IS NO NEED FOR FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION LIKE GOD.
...any way After reading 'Angels&Demons' almost a 20 times or so, I was curious enough and wished to see how the 'Demon's Hole' in Del popolo or the Altar in Del Vittoria looks like in Live Action. Now (I think)my wish won't be fulfilled.
Spoilsports - some people really are.
The Rome's Diocese is being a Spoilsport.
Dan Brown's work is work of Fiction (although he does get help from some real historic events that the Church will not confess because it is a bitter truth.)
But I can tell you right now. What feeds, protects me,facilitates today is Science and not Religion.
Religion is for those people who are idle and nothing else to do.If each and every person on earth gets engaged and STAYS ENGAGED in academic education and chooses proper fields as careers in their lives and look to real flesh and blood people for inspiration (especially in times of trouble) like Leonardo Da Vinci,Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawkins, Bruce Lee, Denzel Washington... pretty much anybody who is intelligent and has done some important positive work in life (I am not talking Charity) and inspired others to do so, Then THERE IS NO NEED FOR FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION LIKE GOD.
...any way After reading 'Angels&Demons' almost a 20 times or so, I was curious enough and wished to see how the 'Demon's Hole' in Del popolo or the Altar in Del Vittoria looks like in Live Action. Now (I think)my wish won't be fulfilled.
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