Has anyone ever read this book? It is utterly AMAZING! And also rather blasphemous to an orthodox Catholic. It is a mystery novel about these two secret factions called the Opus Dei and the Priory of Sion. The Opus Dei is a secret sect of the Church in search of the Holy Grail, and the Priory is a group that protects the Grail. Anyway, it said that da Vinci was a member of this Priory and that he put secret messages about the Grail's existence in his paintings. One of the most startling revelations (to me, at least) is in his painting The Last Supper. Take a look
Look who is at Jesus' right (it's my left). It's a WOMAN!! Anyway, that is one of the big revelations in this book. I'm not even halfway yet and I'm already blown away. Highly recommended.
I must admit, I had a feeling that Teabing had something to do with this whole thing, but then he threw in the red herring with Fache. Loved the way they did tie everything up towards the end. Now that I'm done I'm going to do some research into what stuff is real. It seems like Opus Dei is a real organization.
Ah great. Glad you liked the ending--personally, I felt let down by it, but I was pretty much convinced that I would be let down by it... Because it could only go one of three ways:
1) The secret turns out to be something spectacular, but gaudy and sci-fi like.
2) The secret turns out to be something relatively mundane and non-controversial (which was what happened).
3) The secret turns out to be something spectacular, but in a conceptual way, so that it blows your mind, but without being gaudy and sci-fi like... (which is what I hoped for, but thought would be nearly impossible to pull off -- but since so much of the book is so incredible, I still held a little hope for this option).
Opus Dei is a real organization, that has real influence in the world. It was was started in Spain, in 1928, and has had a lot of links to fascism. It is part of the Catholic Church's official organization, but it by-steps the power-structure, so the local, catholic bishops have no control over what Opus Dei gets up to in their areas. The spiked chain around the thigh, and the whipping is also real.
They've been accused of being elitist, since they tend to try to recruit well educated people; people of power and prominence. They've also been accused of brainwashing, and whatever else that cults get up to...
I heard about them the first time a couple of years ago, when their founder was canonized. He only died in the 70s, so this was an unusually quick process -- normally, making someone a saint takes a really long time. An exception was made in the case of Mother Theresa, since she was so famous. And an exception was made for Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, simply because Opus Dei is such a powerful organization.
What I read about this event, was that when someone is made into a saint, the followers of this saint-to-be will all flock to Rome for the great event, to celebrate it. And normally, the followers tend to be poor monks, who will be dressed very modestly, and bring a small meal -- everything very low-key and simple. But for Escriva's canonization, things looked really really weird apparently, because for that occasion, the crowd was just these dudes in Armani suits and Rolex watches, heheh.
Members of Opus Dei claim their organisation is concerned only with the spiritual well-being of its members. Critics, on the other hand, compare it to a Mafia shrouded in white. Robert Hutchison reports on the secretive organisation at the heart of the Catholic Church.
The Guardian (London)/September 10, 1997
By Robert Hutchison
Religion and politics have always been dangerous bedfellows. Christian fundamentalists have brought a backward looking, anti-scientific movement into US politics. The rise of militant Islamic parties has reintroduced theocratic notions that were thought to have died with the Dark Ages. But there is another, less publicised movement that has been quietly pushing at the doors of power on five continents. Opus Dei, the controversial organisation at the heart of the Roman Catholic Church, is seeking to recreate an alliance between the spiritual and secular worlds that was last attempted during the Renaissance - with catastrophic results.
In countries where it has a strong presence, Opus Dei labours silently and stealthily to align government policies with those of the Vatican. But its quest to introduce a neo-Renaissance to the Catholic world has so far produced mixed results.
Because they form a closed, disciplined group guided by an authoritarian ideology, Opus Dei strategists have been largely successful at the Vatican. Under John Paul II, the organisation has become the most dominant force in the Roman Curia, the body of 2,500 prelates and trusted lay people that governs the Catholic Church. Opus Dei's manoeuvrings evoke endless speculation in Rome, where getting on the wrong side of God's Work is not something to be lightly undertaken. But Opus Dei is a relative newcomer to the Vatican power structure. Founded in 1928 by Josemaria Escriva, the son of a bankrupt Aragonese mercer who found power and fame in the priesthood, Opus Dei's rise to influence and fortune has been nothing short of spectacular. As a socio-religious phenomenon, it was intricately bound up with the politics of Franco's Spain. Today, according to Annuario Pontificio (the Vatican yearbook), Opus Dei has 80,000 members around the world, of whom about 2,000 are priests.
As the Catholic Church's only floating diocese - known as a personal prelature - it is governed by a prelate-general, who holds the rank of bishop, and operates above and beyond the authority of local bishops. Said to be richer than many Third World states, Opus Dei publishes no financial statements, no membership lists, and it reports - once every five years - only to the Pope.
Although run from opulent headquarters in Rome's Parioli district, Opus Dei protests that it is 'poor' and does not possess the means of carrying out a political agenda. It claims that its only concern is the spiritual well-being of members. But this is highly deceptive, for the more one gets to know Opus Dei, the more one realises it is highly secretive and elitist. Its primary goal is to return the Catholic Church to the centre of society, as in medieval times.
That by itself may seem harmless enough, but Opus Dei possesses many of the characteristics of a dangerous sect. Members - there are basically two sorts: celibate and noncelibate - are subject to a secret initiation rite. Obedience is sworn to the prelate-general and 'other authorised persons of the prelature'. Once inducted, they must submit to what is known as the 'formative norms' - a manner of mind conditioning. These include reporting weekly to a 'director' who has a right of regard over all their activities, personal and professional. Confessing once a week to an Opus Dei priest is mandatory. Celibate oblates must regularly wear a cilis - a spiked thigh chain used by religious communities in the Middle Ages - and practice self-flagellation. Married members are encouraged to send their children to Opus Dei schools. The schools serve as recruitment centres.
Opus Dei has been accused of being a church within the Church. It has its own doctrine, which it claims was divinely inspired. Moreover, it is the only Roman Catholic organisation - other than the Church herself - that believes it was created by God.
Most sects practice the cult of the founder. In Opus Dei's case, it is determined to have Escriva, who died in 1975, declared a saint before the millennium. But a number of prominent Catholics have protested, claiming that canonisation would weaken the credibility of the Church. One of Spain's leading theologians, Juan Martin Velasco, remarked: 'We cannot portray as a model of Christian living someone who has served the power of the state and who used that power to launch his Opus, which he ran with obscure criteria - like a Mafia shrouded in white - not accepting the papal magisterium when it failed to coincide with his way of thinking'.
Such weighty protests have not moved John Paul II, whose views on Escriva's saintliness, and regard for Opus Dei in general, are well known. A few days before the first 1978 Conclave after the death of Pope Paul VI (which elected John Paul I, who died after only 33 days in office) the future pope paid a visit to the Villa Tevere headquarters and prayed at Escriva's tomb. After the death of the founder's successor, Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, in 1994, John Paul II returned to the prelatic church and knelt before the prelate-general's funeral bier. This bending of protocol - a pope only kneels before the earthly remains of a cardinal - was regarded by many as a sign of fidelity to the organisation that had done everything in its power to raise him to the papal throne.
In spite of opposition from Paul VI's closest adviser, Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, in November 1982 John Paul II elevated Opus Dei to the unique status of personal prelature. Benelli had died of a sudden heart attack the month before. Since then the papal household has increasingly come under Opus Dei's domination.
The Work and its allies control the papal purse strings and the Vatican, after years of piling up deficits, now runs at a profit. It is claimed that the papal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, is an Opus Dei associate. During papal travels, Dziwisz makes a point of exchanging the customary Opus Dei form of salutation with local members. Opus Dei Archbishop Julian Herranz, one of the most powerful members of the Roman Curia, is co-chairman of the Papal Council of Advisers. His two co-chairmen are strong Opus Dei supporters, one of them having given key testimony to the Roman tribunal investigating Escriva's saintliness. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a celibate lay member, holds ministerial status in the papal entourage.
On the secular front, Opus Dei is well represented throughout Latin America, where it has penetrated all levels of government, the military, and the business and financial establishments. In Peru, for example, Opus Dei forged a coalition of business and banking leaders with high-ranking bureaucrats that gave its backing to President Alberto Fujimori. When Tupac Amaru rebels seized the Japanese embassy last December, creating the 126-day hostage crisis, Fujimori called upon Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani, from the mountain diocese of Ayacucho, to mediate - over the head of the Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Augusto Vargas Zamora, a Jesuit. Cipriani, one of seven Opus Dei bishops in Peru, is now favoured to succeed Cardinal Vargas, who is past the retirement age, as archbishop of Lima, which traditionally means promotion to the cardinalate.
Opus Dei's fortunes in Europe have been less certain. The exception is Spain, where its political influence regained considerable potency after last year's electoral victory of the conservative Jose Maria Aznar. A devout Catholic whose wife is close to Opus Dei, Prime Minister Aznar's government is laced with Opus Dei dignitaries.
Opus Dei's political ideology has changed little since the 1950s when two of its leading strategists, Rafael Calvo Serer, a former director of the Spanish Institute in London, and Florentino Perez -Embid, published their treatises on Opus Dei as a Catholic regenerator with worldwide reach.
They maintained that the emergence of a new Spain within the European Community presented a God-given opportunity to recreate a form of militant Catholicism initiated by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in the 16th century. Charles V was known as God's viceroy on earth. His imperial policies brought Spain to the height of her creative success, but they also aggravated the European rift between Catholics and Protestants and ended up bankrupting the empire. Nevertheless he placed on Peter's throne two popes of his choosing.
Calvo Serer and Perez-Embid reasoned that with galloping secularism overtaking the Western world, the only way to revitalise Christianity was to resume the Catholic crusade of Charles V - not this time with the resources of a single nation, but through a powerful and vital transnational Catholic movement, headed by Opus Dei. Like the Spanish empire of old, Opus Dei's new-look Holy League was to have large-spectrum antennae in Latin America and the United States.
Opus Dei's American influence blossomed during the Reagan administration. The prelature placed its agents inside the White House and recruited among the middle ranks of the Pentagon. Under Clinton, the situation is more ambiguous, with the exception of the FBI, whose director, Louis Freeh, is said to be a supernumerary (non-celibate) member. When asked for confirmation, Freeh declined to respond, having an FBI special agent reply in his stead. (The official FBI spokesman in Washington had never heard of Opus Dei.) 'While I cannot answer your specific questions, I do note that you have been 'informed' incorrectly,' John E Collingwood stated, without giving further details.
However it seems that Special Agent Collingwood was himself 'misinformed', as Opus Dei subsequently admitted that Freeh's brother, John, was indeed a celibate director of the Work's large centre in Pittsburgh.
In Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy, Opus Dei members are highly placed in the commercial and central banking sectors and within the government bureaucracy. Opus Dei was introduced to the Catholic aristocracy of Europe by former Queen Fabiola of Belgium, who is related through the House of Aragon to the Spanish Borbon family. One of Opus Dei's bitterest reversals occurred earlier this year when a Belgian parliamentary commission placed the organisation on a list of dangerous religious sects, proposing legislation to bring them under stricter control.
Opus Dei was handed another setback by the Socialist victory in France, where it has strong connections among the business establishment. President Chirac's wife, Bernadette Chodron de Courcel, although not a member, is a strong Opus Dei sympathiser. Under Alain Juppe, Opus Dei members held several important cabinet positions, controlling government policy on social communications, proposing legislation to repenalise homosexuality and playing a key role in the privatisation of TF1, a national television channel.
The presence of Opus Dei in the UK, though now w ell rooted, is nowhere near as pervasive. Its network of schools, subsidised with state funds, is concentrated in London, Manchester and Glasgow. Recently, however, Opus Dei established itself in Belfast. Opus Dei members run a youth club called Citywise, and have links with schools in Northern Ireland. A similar club exists in Dublin. Both have secured European Union support under the Youth for Europe programme.
It is part of Opus Dei's modus operandi never to spend - except as a last resort - its own money to finance 'good works', but always to dig into someone else's resources, public or private. Financial backers of Opus Dei projects are often private foundations, or public entities such as US AID, Adveniat in Germany, Unesco (whose director general, Federico Mayor, is Opus Dei) or the public instances of the European Union, where the Work is especially well represented.
Opus Dei schools in Kenya and Nigeria are partially financed by the British government. One former numerary, Dr John Roche, spent 10 years as a director of Strathmore College in Nairobi. During this time the British government paid a third of his salary into an account in London. But numeraries are required to turn their salaries over to the prelature. In this case, the amount totalled pounds 25,000.
After leaving Opus Dei, Roche - now a lecturer at Oxford - sued in the Chancery Division of the High Court of London to recover that part of his salary retained in the UK and other sums he loaned the prelature. Opus Dei successfully defended the case, claiming it owed him nothing. Afterwards Roche and his solicitors questioned the authenticity of certain documents placed in evidence by the defendants. Opus Dei's solicitors belatedly admitted that 'a number of the letters placed on exhibit were not written on the dates they bear but in 1976' - ie after the lawsuit was filed. Roche received an apology and recouped pounds 6,500 of the money as part of an out-of-court settlement.
If, as widely expected, Archbishop Cipriani receives a red hat in the next Consistory - the meeting of cardinals with the Pope - he will become Opus Dei's first cardinal. As a conservative Latin American, young (53 years old), and trimly sportive (a former Olympic athlete), this would make him an eminent papal candidate during the next Conclave. With the 77-year-old John Paul II ailing, many believe the next Conclave cannot be far off. Should an Opus Dei pope be elected, the sons of Josemaria Escriva will have successfully created a neo-Renaissance power structure with striking parallels to the one constructed by God's viceroy in the 16th century.
My problem with this book has nothing to do with my religious background. But with just how badly written it is. I love the guys other book Angels and Demons (About the churches persecution of Galioe) but really the DaVinci Code uses so much private eye conceindences and (ironically perhaps) Deus Ex Machina, that it would have been regected by the Cat Who... Series
just in case anyone doesn't know the hype behind this book...
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'Da Vinci Code' Gets First Challenge
Mon Jun 9, 6:52 PM ET
By KATHY McCORMACK, Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. - "The Da Vinci Code," a thriller by a relatively unknown author, is a best seller.
It has boosted the profile of New Hampshire author Dan Brown — and it's brought him his first literary challenge.
Author Lewis Perdue says that Brown's story, which explores codes hidden in Leonardo Da Vinci's artwork and a closely guarded secret involving the Roman Catholic Church, has similarities to Perdue's "Daughter of God," published in 2000.
Last week, Perdue sent a letter to Doubleday, Brown's publisher. While religious themes, secrets and conspiracies aren't newcomers to popular fiction, Perdue said he was seeing too many of his own ideas in "The Da Vinci Code," Brown's fourth novel.
"There are far too many parallels between the two books for it to be an accident," Perdue said Monday in an interview from north Lake Tahoe, where he is on vacation. "We've decided to take legal action."
Brown said that until last week, he had never heard of Perdue, who has written about a dozen books, including "The Da Vinci Legacy," which deals with a church secret involving the illegitimate offspring of St. Peter. Brown said he has not read any of Perdue's books.
Brown's protagonist, who made his debut in a previous novel, is a professor who studies religious symbols. Perdue's hero is a professor of religion. Brown's heroine is a cryptologist; Perdue's is an expert specializing in art forgery. Both deal with curator deaths.
Both books also deal with a secret that the church wants to keep under wraps.
"To me, the biggest smoking gun is there is a painting which contains, physically, a gold key, which leads to a safe deposit box in a Zurich bank, which contains the ultimate clue leading to the treasure," said Perdue. "And the two people retrieve this from the safe deposit box as the bad guys are closing in and they escape by the skin of their teeth."
Brown's book includes a scene where the cryptologist finds a gold key behind a painting, which leads her and the professor on a harrowing journey to a safe deposit box in a Paris Swiss bank.
"Swiss bank accounts are so often in thrillers they are cliche," said Brown, who added that there are limited places to hide a key in an art museum.
Brown said his first book about his professor, "Angels and Demons," came out before "Daughter of God." Perdue said "Daughter of God" is a re-edit of his 1985 book, "The Linz Testament," with the same hero but with a different name.
and also, for those interested in seeing this one as a movie:
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Sci Fi Wire
9:00am ET, 27-June-03
Studio Buys Da Vinci Rights
Columbia Pictures has acquired film rights to The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's best-selling thriller novel, about an ancient conspiracy, Variety reported. Code, published in March, is Brown's second novel centering on Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor who studies religious symbols. The first, Angels and Demons, was published in 2000. Brown is at work on a third Langdon book, which would be included in Columbia's deal.
Code centers on the murder of a curator at the Louvre and clues to a 2,000-year-old conspiracy encoded in the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, the trade paper reported.
The book is also the subject of allegations by author Lewis Perdue, who claims that Code borrows material from Perdue's novel Daughter of God, published in 2000. Brown has said he never read Perdue's books, the trade paper reported.
If you really liked The DaVinci Code, there are a bunch of books out there that deal with the same subject matter, but the books are non-fictional. There are some about the art, about the Priory of Sion, the Holy Grail, religious symbols, and the Templar. It's really interesting stuff.
Awesome! I think you'll like it a lot. It used to be out of print, but with the popularity of the DaVinci Code, they've issued a reprint. "The Girl with the Alabastor Jar" is also awesome and ties a lot of the art together with theories. I think I've liked that one the best so far.
just finished reading this. very intriguing read...but they didn't finish it! errrgh! i'm with cogs in having hoped for that option number three ending:
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3) The secret turns out to be something spectacular, but in a conceptual way, so that it blows your mind, but without being gaudy and sci-fi like... (which is what I hoped for, but thought would be nearly impossible to pull off -- but since so much of the book is so incredible, I still held a little hope for this option).
i was also really hoping they'd go more into the Phi aspect of things kind of like the movie Pi did.
BTW, for anyone who enjoyed the symbolism and dual meanings in this book, i suggest reading about the history of tarot.
Anyone Read this? Any good? I just read his Angel and Demons book and I enjoyed it, but not sure if I want spend the money on a hardback Da Vinci code or just wait for paperback.
Wed May 19, 3:34 PM ET
By KATE McCANN, Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. - Though "The Da Vinci Code" was contentious enough to produce 10 books attempting to discredit it, its author said he left out what likely would have been the most controversial part.
Dan Brown said that when he wrote the best seller that dissects the origins of Jesus Christ and disputes long-held beliefs about Catholicism, he considered including material alleging that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion.
While speaking at a benefit Tuesday for a New Hampshire writers' group, Brown said the theory is backed by a number of "very credible sources," but that he ultimately decided it was too flimsy.
"For me, that was just three or four steps too far," he told the crowd of more than 800 people.
Brown's discussion of his book, during which he answered audience questions, was a rare public appearance for him. He has declined most requests for media interviews this year, saying he is focusing on writing the sequel to his book.
He said the new book, set in Washington, D.C., would focus on the Free and Accepted Masons, a secretive fraternal organization. He said the architecture in Washington is soaked in symbolism and plays a major role in the novel. He also said the dust jacket of "The Da Vinci Code" contains a code that reveals information about the sequel.
But Brown spent much of the evening discussing the controversy that has surrounded "The Da Vinci Code."
Since the book was published in March 2003, liberal and conservative writers have cited numerous errors. A key assertion in "The Da Vinci Code" — that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and that sinister Christians suppressed information about it — comes from a 1982 book titled "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," which a New York Times reviewer called "rank nonsense."
Brown said he is grateful his book is generating so much debate. He said apathy is a constant threat to the study of the uncomfortable relationship between science and religion.
The book casts unflattering light on the Catholic Church, accusing church leaders of demonizing women for centuries and of covering up the truth about the Holy Grail, which Brown says is Mary Magdalene herself.
Many critics have taken issue with Brown's claim that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child who was whisked away to France after Jesus' crucifixion.
But Brown, who was raised Christian, said that theory does not detract from Christianity's message.
"In my mind, the possibility that Jesus might have married Mary Magdalene in no way undermines the beauty of Christ's message," he said.
"The Da Vinci Code" has sold 7.5 million copies worldwide and is expected to be made into a movie.
a code in the dust jacket? how utterly predictable. i should have been looking for it already.
Gah, it's sad that science, good sense & reason most often fails to make people understand that religion is bunk -- but mad conspiracy theories, oh that, they'll buy... ::sigh::
It's an enjoyable book, as fiction -- but that's all it is. People are way too gullible, and take the author's word for stuff that is simply not true.
The things he says about paintings of Jesus and his desciples showing one of them to be a woman is nonsense -- if you really do look close (and if you know something about the historic traditions of the artists that painted them), you'll find that these characters are not women, they're just drawn slightly effeminate.
thought i'd bump this thread since it's so popular anyway.
davinci code author Dan Brown is making news again.
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'Da Vinci Code' Author Donates $2.2M
Mon Nov 1, 3:53 PM ET
NEW YORK - Novelist Dan Brown, author of the multimillion-selling "The Da Vinci Code," is sharing some of his wealth with his old high school: Phillips Exeter Academy.
The school announced Monday that Brown and his siblings, Valerie and Gregory, had made a $2.2 million donation in honor of their father, Richard Brown, who taught mathematics at the academy for 35 years. The gift will help provide students with computers and other high-tech equipment.
"My dad's contribution to education through teaching and textbooks is a powerful legacy," the author said during a ceremony last weekend at the school, based in Exeter, N.H.
"We have taken the opportunity to give something back to a phenomenal father and an extraordinary school, both of whom have given us so much."
Dan Brown, who still lives in Exeter, graduated from the academy in 1982 and later taught English there. His siblings also attended the school.
Brown's other books include "Angels and Demons" and "Digital Fortress."
and also, today we get to see the illustrated version released. says the publisher: "I don't remember ever reading a novel that so screamed for illustrations." no i wouldn't think that you would.
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Illustrated 'Da Vinci Code' is latest piece of the puzzle
Tue Nov 2,10:46 AM ET
By Jacqueline Blais, USA TODAY
The Da Vinci Code, a religious thriller, is on a roll.
The newest addition to the cottage industry that has grown around the novel, The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition (Doubleday, $35), goes on sale today with an impressive print run of 675,000.
The book's expected success can only make what's already a publishing phenomenon even bigger. Dan Brown's 2003 novel has 9.05 million in print in the USA, says his agent, Heide Lange, along with another 10.1 million in the rest of the world. Last year, The Da Vinci Code was the top-selling adult fiction on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list. It's on track to do the same in 2004.
Illustrated books are not necessarily unusual. The illustrated Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a follow-up to Laura Hillenbrand's 2001 best seller, did well in 2003, but its publication coincided with the release of the movie about the racehorse. What makes the art-filled Da Vinci Code stand out is that the regular $24.95 hardcover, which was published by Doubleday in March 2003, is still very much in play.
Da Vinci has "such a huge fan base, we think some people will continue to buy the regular hardcover edition and the gift edition," says Bob Wietrak, vice president of merchandising for Barnes & Noble.
The oversized edition includes the novel plus about 150 images. The art includes Mona Lisa, Opus Dei headquarters, Church of Saint-Sulpice and Rosslyn Chapel - objects and places that play a role in unraveling The Da Vinci Code's mystery.
"I don't remember reading a novel that so screamed for illustrations," says Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of Doubleday.
The success of The Da Vinci Code is reviving Brown's three earlier novels. The most popular is Angels & Demons, featuring Da Vinci Code good guy Robert Langdon. There are 7.5 million copies in the USA and 2.7 million more worldwide. An illustrated Angels & Demons is planned for May from publisher Atria. Deception Point has 3.2 million in print in the USA, and Digital Fortress has 3.4 million.
The Da Vinci Code's popularity is spilling over into other entertainment venues:
•A movie. Columbia Pictures bought the rights, and the team that produced A Beautiful Mind- Imagine Entertainment, with producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard - is on board. The movie is expected in 2006.
•Spinoff books. Estimates vary for the number of spinoffs of The Da Vinci Code; R.R. Bowker's Books-In-Print database puts it at 18. These books scrutinize the history (especially the religious part) woven into the novel.
•TV. A special is in the works (not yet sold) by Grizzly Adams Productions called Breaking the Da Vinci Code, which is based on three books.
Brown, who lives in New Hampshire, is writing his next book, The Solomon Key, again starring Langdon. As for the publication date: "We have no idea," Doubleday's Rubin says.
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i'm with cogs in having hoped for that option number three ending:
lol! great picture cogito.
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