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《達文西密碼》

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哈佛大學宗教符號學教授羅拔•蘭頓（湯漢斯飾演）到巴黎公幹期間突然接到通知羅浮宮館長遭人謀殺，而在博物館內，屍體旁邊留下了一個令人困惑的密碼。蘭頓教授與法國美女密碼專家蘇菲（柯德莉塔圖飾演）在整理分析謎團的過程中，驚訝地發現在達文西的作品中藏有一連串令人震驚的線索。這些線索人人可見，卻被畫家巧妙地偽裝，加以隱藏。

蘭頓教授發現這一連串的線索原來有著令人震驚的關聯：已故的館長是錫安隱修會的成員 －錫安隱修會是一個真實存在的秘密組織，其中成員包括牛頓、波提切利 (Botticelli, Sandro)、雨果和達文西等人。至此蘭頓才發現自己正在追蹤一個石破天驚的歷史大秘密，一個已經埋藏了幾個世紀、既富啟發性又危險的秘密。在這場遍及巴黎、倫敦和蘇格蘭的追逐中，蘭頓和蘇菲發現自己正在跟一個從來不肯露面的幕後主腦鬥智鬥力，這個人似乎總是知道他們下一步要做什麼。除非他們可以解開這個錯縱複雜的謎團，否則一個埋藏了二千年的秘密、一個極爆炸性的古老真相，將永遠消失，而他倆的性命亦會危在旦夕……

從書店跑到大銀幕

被翻譯成四十四種語言的小說《達文西密碼》在過去兩年在全球熱賣，銷量超過五千萬本，就算沒有讀過，也必然有聽過這本書的名字。而這絕對是今年最令人引頸以待的猛片。《達文西密碼》監製尊歌利說：「我一開始看這部小說，便已被它深深吸引；看罷更希望能馬上將它搬上大銀幕。」不謀而合的是，Imagine Entertainment的主席之一白賴仁基沙和金像導演朗侯活也有同樣的想法。特別令基沙感興趣的是「它不只是一部有趣和刺激的作品，當中亦有不少值得人深入探索的事情──它涉及很多"質疑歷史"和"創造歷史"等極具爭議性的話題。」三人走在一起，便成了這部電影的幕後鐵三角。

小說暢銷全球，電影亦絕對有睇頭，電影公司投資了超過1億2千5百萬美金(接近10億港幣)拍攝這部鉅著，更不惜功本網羅了多位美國和法國的重量級影星擔綱演出，當中包括兩屆金像影帝湯漢斯、新晉法國女星柯德莉塔圖、法國影帝尚連奴和資深英國演員伊恩麥基倫等。幕後陣容同樣強勁，由金像導演朗侯活執導，加上金像監製班底，未上映已叫全球注目。

就連原著作者丹布朗(Dan Brown)亦對電影極為支持，還表示「等於在戲院看了我的小說一遍」可見電影忠於原著的程度有多高。

電影在日本於上映前18個星期已開始預售門票，首一星期便賣出超過五千二百七十八萬張，相比以前的大片如《哈利波特之神秘的魔法石》和《魔戒》系列，他們要在上映前7至8星期才有此預售成績。

取景地點遍佈歐洲

《達文西密碼》拍攝期間走遍法國、英國和馬爾他取景，拍攝地點多是歐洲名勝。湯漢斯說：「我們去過大部份書中提及過的地方拍攝，這都是很好的經歷，也令我更了解蘭頓教授的感覺，給我更多新的啟發。這和我平常只會駕車到片場，跑入錄影室的感覺很不同。」

《達文西密碼》取景地點包括倫敦國王學院 (King's College London)、聖殿教堂(Temple Church)、聖詹姆士公園(Saint Jame's Park)、西敏寺(Westminster Abbey)、巴黎的 Gare Saint-Lazare、巴黎麗斯酒店 (Ritz Paris Hotel)、羅浮宮、聖許畢斯教堂(Saint-Sulpice)、The Depository Bank of Zurich、Bois de Boulogne、Champslyses 及 Le Bourget Airfield等等。

這部電影亦得到法國政府鼎力支持，破天荒借出世界著名的羅浮宮作為拍攝場地。據說當日導演朗侯活和監製白賴仁基沙正在煩惱法國文化部會否准許他們在羅浮宮進行拍攝之際，突然獲法國總統希拉克邀請到總統府一聚，並表示若申請拍攝時遇上阻礙，千萬要通知他，他必會全力支持並馬上作適當的安排。破天荒在羅浮宮實地取景拍戲果然夢想成真。

由於要確保館內所有價值連城的藝術品完好無缺，攝製隊只能在羅浮宮休息日的夜間拍攝。而館內多幅名畫亦嚴禁被攝入鏡頭和不能受燈光直接照射，因此製作組仍須花上龐大資源在著名的 Pinewood and Shepperton Studios 內搭建多個場景和製作原畫的複製品，令整個拍攝活動範圍更廣，演員亦更加活動自如。負責為此片造複製品的設計師透露他們為這部電影共造了超過150件複製品，而每一件的尺寸和所用的物料都和原作一模一樣，甚至顏料也和原作一樣，令整部電影更加真實。

主要角色介紹

羅拔•蘭頓 ( Robert Langdon)

羅拔•蘭頓教授絕對是智者中的英雄，他在戲中竭力要查出真相，而歷史告訴我們對真相執著和孜孜不倦找尋真理的人都擁有崇高的品德，而且有一顆純潔的心、堅強的意志和不屈不撓的精神。蘭頓教授正具備這所有的特質。

湯漢斯打從第一天起已經非常積極參與這部電影的製作，雖然和導演朗侯活已多年沒有合作，但兩人默契猶在。導演更說：「我選擇用 Tom 演這個角色，不單因為他是我的好朋友。我們第一次坐下來談這個角色的時候，我第一個感覺是"這很像我們當年談《太陽神13號》"，這種感覺很強烈，也令我感覺很舒服。湯漢斯就好像可以和書中的蘭頓教授溝通一樣，他活脫脫變成了蘭頓教授，看著 Tom 演這角色就好像看到蘭頓教授站在你面前。」

湯漢斯對再次和朗侯活合作表現得非常興奮，特別是今次他再要向難度挑戰，演一個在他演藝生涯從未演過的角色。「蘭頓在符號學上絕對是不可多得的專家，他在這方面的知識深不見底。就算只在牆上看到三個簡簡單單的符號，他也能滔滔不絕。他的觀察力和洞悉力簡直令人嘆為觀止。」湯漢斯亦表示導演對於他理解蘭頓教授這個角色起了很大的作用。

蘇菲 ( Sophie Neveu)

Sophie 來自希臘文 Sofia，是"聰穎"的意思；Neveu的法文解釋是"後裔"── 是否暗示了她是瑪莉•麥德琳的後裔便不得而知。

對導演朗侯活來說，蘇菲這個角色可算是整個故事的其中一個命脈。「當我讀這本小說的時候，我對蘇菲的描寫有很大的共鳴，當時心想我必須將這種女性主意的思想變成我電影裡的骨幹。我和我那能幹的妻子相處了三十年，亦有三個女兒，所以女性角度對我來說尤其重要，而戲中蘇菲的心路歷程亦非常刺激。在戲中有這樣突出的一個女性角色，看著她怎樣慢慢揭開自己身世之謎，令整個故事更引人入勝。」

和導演一樣，編劇高斯曼亦同時被故事中對女性主意的刻劃深深吸引著。「在我而言，整個故事最有趣的反而是這個女孩的故事──她怎樣找出自己的身世，那種"無法想像自己是如此重要"的經歷。從寫作角度來看，那的確是一塊非常肥沃的土地。這亦是我認為整部片中最令人印象深刻、最人性的一部份。」

要找一個稱職的蘇菲亦有相當難度，導演找過不少著名法國女星與湯漢斯對戲，卻無功而還。但偏偏只有最少時間準備的柯德莉塔圖卻一take過，成了電影的女主角。連湯漢斯對她也讚不絕口：「柯德莉有一種攝人的魅力和神秘感，她給人一種超凡脫俗的感覺，而且她非常真。」

李鐵平爵士 (Sir Leigh Teabing) / 伊恩麥基倫 (Ian McKellen)

「鐵平是整部戲中最令人猜不透的一個人，他好像滿身藏著秘密，但同時又是故事的火車頭，他走的每一步都影響著故事的發展。如果故事中的角色都是木偶，他便是那個木偶大師吧。」

導師說：「起初，我的確認為有很多很出色的英國演員可以演這個角色，直至我遇上伊恩，我立即認定他是不二之選，而最後我証明了自己是對的。他演出過的多部作品都令我印象難忘，我亦非常尊敬他。他是一位非常多變的演員，演過很多不同類型的角色。」

湯漢斯亦很高興可以和一位這麼資深和受人尊敬的演員一同演出。「我再找不到有任何演員比他更好玩、更風趣幽默。我們每次對稿和採排，他總會試盡所有演繹方法，而你會感覺到他是非常享受這個過程的每一刻。」

施拉斯 (Silas) / 保羅班特尼 (Paul Bettany)

戲中最異乎尋常的角色可算是教士施拉斯，而保羅班特尼說他接過劇本後的首要任務就是要將這個角色人性化。「施拉斯是一個極度離群的角色，他一直渴求一個像他父親的人出現。施拉斯因為弒父而被關在牢裡，後來遇上了阿林高沙主教，改變了他的一生。第一個真正曾待他好的是阿林高沙主教，但這個主教最終還是利用了他心裡的弱點作為自己的武器。」

角色人選方面，導演決心找來曾經在《有你終生美麗》和他合作的保羅班特尼。「保羅十分喜歡這個劇本和角色，他為這個角色付出了很多。他在戲中的角色非常恐怖，恐嚇得令人心寒。戲外，我們是很要好的朋友；戲內，他完全是另一個人。保羅很努力地將很多不同的元素帶到角色裡，你在書中感受到的，在電影裡會完全看得見。」

尚連奴 (Jean Reno) / 法雪探長 (Bezu Fache)

尚連奴與監製尊歌利再次合作，今次演繹一名警探，一直深信阿林高沙主教，後來卻被出賣。尚連奴被這個角色深深吸引著。「他心底裡的信念令他不得不介入這件事當中，當然作為一名警探，他也必須履行自己的職務。我很希望可以探索一下當他被人出賣時的感覺和反應。」

原來這個角色是尚連奴度身訂造的。「當這本書的作者丹布朗告訴我，他寫這個角色時腦海裡只想著我，我感到非常榮幸。這令我演這個角色時覺得更有意義。」

演員介紹

湯漢斯飾演蘭頓教授

貴為荷里活超級演技派兼賣座之王，《捉智雙雄》、《雷霆救兵》及《劫後重生》等都大收特收，湯漢斯絕對是當今荷里活數一數二的巨星。湯漢斯是電影史上第二位連續兩屆獲得奧斯卡影帝銜頭的影星，94年憑《費城故事》中飾演的愛滋病律師，勇奪奧斯卡及金球獎最佳男主角；接著的一年，憑《阿甘正傳》再下一城，奪得金像及金球寶座，令他成為近50年來，唯一一個連續兩年奪得影帝寶座的演員，湯漢斯往後逐步邁向發光發亮的演藝生涯。至今已獲獎無數，更多次獲選為荷里活權威人物。

湯漢斯最近一次獲得多項影帝提名（包括奧斯卡在內）的是史提芬史匹堡的《雷霆救兵》，前年則以《劫後重生》獲得金球獎影帝，並第五次獲奧斯卡提名。湯漢斯曾與多個大導演合作，如史提芬史匹堡，朗候活等，多年來演出多部經典作品，令人印象難忘，包括《緣份的天空》、《太陽神13號》、《綠里奇蹟》、《網上情緣》、《捉智雙雄》及《末路驕陽》等。

而除了演員之外，湯漢斯曾嘗試不同的工作崗位，如出任《那一天傳奇》的導演及編劇；為PIXAR的票房勁收動畫《反斗奇兵》系列配音，亦出任過HBO連續劇的監製。

柯德莉塔圖飾演蘇菲

柯德莉塔圖憑2001年的《天使愛美麗》成為全球矚目的新星，並獲提名凱撒大獎最佳女主角。她於1999年初登大銀幕，處女作是法國片《Venus Beauty Institute》，更憑此片勇奪凱撒大獎最佳新人獎殊榮。她隨後亦拍了多部影片及電視片集，長片包括《神婆美少女》、《天使愛過界》《Le Battement d'Aile du Papillon》、《Le Lebertin》、《Voyous Voyelles》、《L'Aruberge Espagnole》及《Les Marins Perdus》。

柯德莉塔圖以往多接拍小品電視劇，而角色都是比較少女味濃一點的，且帶點幽默，甚討人歡喜，她更被視為最有潛質的性格女演員，成為片商的爭奪對象。多才多藝的柯德莉塔圖，懂得彈鋼琴和演奏雙簧管，除了拍電影之外，亦期望可以多演舞台劇，尤其是歌舞劇。

伊恩麥基倫飾演李鐵平爵士

銀幕上千變萬化的伊恩麥基倫40年來一直活躍於舞臺及銀幕上，也贏得超過40項以上的表演獎項，最近更獲頒發2006柏林影展的終生成就金熊獎。

出生於英格蘭西北部蘭開郡的伊恩麥基倫在電視、電影及舞台劇方面皆有出色的表演，最近的作品有《變種特工》系列。他亦曾憑《魂斷夢工場》中一角獲提名奧斯卡最佳男主角，又參與《李察三世》的編劇及製作。

伊恩麥基倫同時也在電視電影中參與演出，97年以 《Rasputin》一片獲得金球獎最佳男配角，其他電視作品有《And the Band Played On》及《Walter and June》。伊恩麥基倫的舞臺表演也相當著名，他曾為英國皇家莎士比亞公司及倫敦皇家戲劇院演出不少古典及新劇劇目，且做全球的巡迴演出，而他的個人秀「Acting Shakespeare」及「A Knight Out」也在全球普受好評。1981年伊恩麥基倫在百老匯以「Amadeus」一劇榮獲東尼獎最佳男演員獎，2001年亦參演過《Dance of Death》。除了舞臺的演出之外，伊恩麥基倫也在《魔戒三部曲》中演出，片中他飾演巫師甘道夫。

保羅班特尼飾演施拉斯

生於英國的保羅班特尼第一次讓美國觀眾認識要算是在《狂野武士》內演一個頗幽默的角色，戲內他與剛憑名片《斷背山》出名的希斯萊傑有不少對手戲，更因此獲得倫敦影評人大獎最佳男配角。

受訓於倫敦戲劇學院的保羅，畢業後花了好一段時間在皇家莎士比亞公司(Royal Shakespeare Company) 磨練自己的演技，期間曾演出過多部莎翁名著，包括《羅密歐與茱麗葉》和《李察三世》。他第一部參演的電影則是1997年的《Bent》。但始終較喜歡演舞台劇的他，再次回歸大劇院，更參與演出多個英國電視節目。

保羅正式擔綱演出的第一部電影則是2000年的《Gangster No. 1》，他亦憑這部電影獲提名英國獨立電影大獎及倫敦影評人大獎的最佳新人獎。他的演出同時吸引了金像導演朗侯活的注意，更因此獲導演賞識邀請他參演2002年奧斯卡最佳電影《有你終生美麗》，而保羅最終亦憑此片獲得倫敦影評人大獎頒發最佳英國男演員，肯定了他的演技。

之後，保羅更夥拍妮歌潔曼演出音樂傳記電影《人間狗鎮》和與羅素高爾合作的《軍天勇將：戰海豪情》。他在這兩套電影中的表現備受讚賞，更憑後者奪得多個大獎和多項提名。保羅最近參演的一齣電影是《銅牆火壁》。

艾佛摩連拿飾演阿林高沙主教

艾佛摩連拿是一名有多方面演出經驗的演員，他曾演出超過50齣電影、電視劇集和舞台節目。最近為人所熟悉的要算是《蜘蛛俠2》中飾演的怪物八爪博士，2002和2003年亦曾分別演出過《Undertaking Betty》和《Coffee and Cigarettes》。

尚連奴飾演法雪探長

西班牙籍的法國影帝尚連奴，出身於北非國家摩洛哥，17歲移居法國，其後展開了他的演藝事業。尚連奴不止參演法國電影，更憑著參與演出過多部荷里活猛片而成功進軍荷里活，當中最為人熟悉的代表作當然是1994年的《這個殺手不太冷》，他憑著飾演一名沉默寡言的殺手而紅遍全球。他在《職業特工隊》、《哥斯拉》、《一切從失戀開始》及《浪人》中的演出亦為觀眾留下深刻的印象。較近期的演出包括《緣來有轉機》。

尚連奴於日本亦深受觀眾歡迎。於2001年，他與廣末涼子合演法日合作大電影《青芥刑警》，又曾接拍多個日本廣告，2004年更與另一日本人氣偶像金城武一同成為遊戲《鬼武者》的主角人物。

導演朗侯活

金像導演朗侯活絕對稱得上是近年來其中一位最炙手可熱的導演，無論是大獲好評的《有你終生美麗》和《太陽神13號》抑或是小品喜劇《Parenthood》和《Splash》都是令人印象深刻和非常有質素的電影。他最近的佳作《擊動深情》共獲得三項奧斯卡提名之餘，之前的一部作品《有你終生美麗》更為他帶來四個奧斯卡獎項。除此之外，朗侯活更曾獲美國導演協會(Directors Guild of America)頒贈全年最佳導演大獎，成績彪炳。

朗侯活的導演技巧一直獲同業推崇。早在1995年，他已憑《太陽神13號》獲美國導演協會頒贈他導演生涯中第一個最佳導演大獎。這套電影更為他帶來九項奧斯卡提名和兩個大獎。而他過去亦有無數電影獲業界一致好評。

《達文西密碼》作者丹布朗

丹布朗是多本全球暢銷小說的作者，當中當然包括有史以來全球最暢銷小說《達文西密碼》。2004年初，出自他手筆的四本小說更同時登上紐約最暢銷書排行榜。最近他更因話題作《達文西密碼》而獲全球最權威刊物之一的時代雜誌選為「100位全球最具影響力人物」之一，曝光率亦因此而大增，經常於各大報章雜誌和電視上看見他的面孔。

丹布朗投身寫作前是一名英文教師。自1996年起，他對密碼解構(code-breaking) 的濃厚興趣驅使他開始了同類型的寫作。他第一本有關密碼解構的著作名為"Digital Fortress"，一出版即成為當時全國銷量第一的電子書籍。及後多部作品亦環繞相類似的主題。近年他的幾部小說都以是這位哈佛大學的羅拔•蘭頓教授為中心。

《達文西密碼》至今一共被翻譯成四十四種語言，全球銷量超過五千萬本。

關於達文西

達文西 (Leonardo da Vinci)，生於1452年，母親是名平凡的農莊女子，父親則是一位律師。因為父親的關係，達文西從小便接受優質的教育，而且能夠彈奏樂器、唱歌、亦喜歡數學研究，同時也展示了繪畫的才能。十四歲左右，父親發現他繪畫上的才華便把他帶到佛羅倫斯的維洛及歐 (Verrochio) 畫室學畫。達文西的天份很快就讓他青出於藍，在繪畫上展現超卓的技巧與獨特風格。 不過成名後的達文西卻與當時的藝術市場和贊助藝術家的富商不和，終因倔強之故惹惱了其中一個大家族 The Medicis，而改往米蘭宮廷發展。在米蘭的十六年，達文西最多只接過兩件較大型的委託工作：〈最後的晚餐〉和為史佛薩所作的騎馬雕像。他也在向普瑞迪斯（Predis）兄弟轉包之下畫了〈岩窟的聖母〉。 因此達文西生平留下來的畫作並不多。 晚年的達文西獲法國國王法蘭西斯一世的邀請到了法國，博學的達文西唯一的工作就是陪皇帝聊天，當然也因為移居法國的緣故，『蒙娜麗莎的微笑』也被他隨身攜到了法國境內，最後這幅名畫在19世紀時被拿破崙安置於羅浮宮擺放至今。達文西於1519年5月2日逝世，享年六十七歲。

解讀《達文西密碼》裡的達文西作品

「最後的晚餐」(The Last Supper)
「最後的晚餐」是聖經圖像中最常見的一個畫面，描寫耶穌與十二門徒一起用餐，耶穌預告門徒中有人背叛祂，祂將被逮捕，應驗宿命死在十字架上的結局。事實上「最後的晚餐」也是基督教的儀式之一，是保存至今的天主教「彌撒」的起源，教徒會在儀式中領受聖體（麵包）和聖血（紅酒）。 當年達文西自1495年起用了三年時間在米蘭多明尼加修道院的聖母感恩禮拜堂的餐廳繪製這幅巨作時，常常因為一整天對著空白的牆壁發呆，引起公爵和修道院的不滿，認為達文西偷懶。事實上，達文西是在思考繪畫中最難描繪的層次──如何利用手勢與四肢動作來表現「人類靈魂的意圖」。

在這幅15呎x 29呎的名畫中，達文西運用嚴謹而科學的透視技巧，將每一條分割線都準確向三度景深的焦點集中（也就是以耶穌為中心點），耶穌攤開的雙手形成一個金字塔形，而十二門徒則三人成一組分列於耶穌左右，達文西運用人物的手勢、動作，巧妙的安排了畫面上下左右的律動，也在騷動的變化中創造了靜定永恆的力量。
達文西也將他創新的實驗材料──蛋彩加油，運用在這幅畫作中，但沒想到卻令壁畫提早腐壞。1536年義大利著名的傳記家Vasari到米蘭參觀這幅畫作時，壁畫早已斑駁不堪，到十七世紀時，修道院甚至只為了令餐廳與廚房相通而在牆壁上打了個洞，使畫作再度受損。

「蒙娜麗莎的微笑」(Mona Lisa)
這幅畫堪稱世界上最著名的肖像畫。多年來，這幅畫曾廣泛被稱為La Gioconda ，因為據傳記學家Vasari的記載，畫中人可能是一名佛羅倫斯商人Francesco del Gioconda的第三位妻子Elisabetta，不過後人卻對她有更多的遐想與猜測，甚至認為這幅畫是達文西自己的自畫像。

也許是這位畫中完美的女性形象，直視觀畫者的眼神，與不可思議的淡淡微笑，讓「蒙娜麗莎」充滿神秘感又有吸引人的魔力。再加上畫作用上了達文西最著名的暈塗法 (Sfumato) 繪畫手法，背後山水左右水平線的不對稱，更是為世人所臆測，是否達文西在畫中隱藏了什麼深遠涵意？

尤其這幅畫在達文西晚年一直隨身攜帶在身邊，並沒有交付給所託的業主，讓蒙娜麗莎的微笑又增添了另一個謎……

戲中主角之一的尚連奴說他多年來一直被這幅名畫深深吸引，他說：「對我來說，這幅畫的確有一種令人醉倒的魅力，因為無論你走到哪裡，她那雙眼睛總會跟著你移動，就是她那種與觀畫者的眼神交流令我有醉倒的感覺。大部份人將注意力集中在她的笑容上，我卻認為她的眼睛才是畫的靈魂。」

導演朗侯活也說這幅名畫是有一種難以形容的懾人魅力，也是這個原因令他堅持用這肖像作為電影的中心構圖。

「岩間聖母」(Virgin of the Rocks)
現時總共有兩幅「岩間聖母」，原著確實如小說中描述，是達文西為米蘭聖弗朗切斯科教堂的禮拜堂所作的祭壇畫，但因為畫中一反常理的人物與動作安排，令教會大為不滿，最後還因此打了場官司，後來便以第二幅"較為正統"的「岩間聖母」做為和解。（第二幅畫現藏於倫敦國立美術館，取名為「岩間的聖處女」）。

這幅畫引起爭議的地方是在於畫面左方的嬰兒耶穌看起來是雙手作揖地謝謝畫面右方的嬰兒彼得。如此的書面已經完全出乎當時人們可以接受與想像的邏輯。不過依達文西對於宗教所抱持的懷疑態度，這樣的一個詮釋，倒是引起後來歷史學家諸多的研究與討論。
此畫以文藝復興時代的經典金字塔形作為主要構圖，而達文西最著名的繪畫技考Sfumato亦在這幅作品中營造出如夢境般的氣氛。

「維特魯威人」(The Virtruvian Man)
《維特魯威人》是達文西按照一位古羅馬建築師維特魯威 (Vitruvius) 所留下關於比例的學說，繪製出一個具完美比例的人體圖像。這位古羅馬建築師和工程師維特魯威曾經寫下著名的《建築十書》，全書分為十卷，是現存最古老且最有影響力的建築學著作。內容涉及城市規劃、建築設計基本原理、建築構圖原理、西方古典建築型制、建築環境控制、建築材料、市政設施、建築師的培養等等。

《達文西密碼》演職員表

哥倫比亞影片暨IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT呈獻
白賴仁基沙/尊歌利製作
"達文西密碼"
主演： 兩屆金像影帝 湯漢斯
《天使愛美麗》柯德莉塔圖
《魔戒》系列 伊恩麥基倫
《蜘蛛俠》艾佛摩連拿
《喪屍危機》謝根布魯
《有你終生美麗》保羅班特尼
《這個殺手不太冷》尚連奴 助理監製：《有你終生美麗》嘉芙蓮麥芝爾/露薏莎雲尼絲
服裝：《擊動深情》丹尼爾奧蘭迪
音樂：《獅子王》金像得主 漢斯森瑪
剪接：《太陽神13號》金像得主 丹漢尼, A.C.E. / 麥克曉爾,A.C.E.
美術：《盜墓迷城》系列 艾倫金馬倫
攝影：《擊動深情》沙華多杜天奴
執行監製：《有你終生美麗》托特夏路維爾 丹布朗
原創小說作者：丹布朗
編劇：《有你終生美麗》金像編劇 艾基華高斯曼
監製：《有你終生美麗》金像監製 白賴仁基沙 金像級監製《誘心人》尊歌利
導演：《有你終生美麗》金像導演 朗侯活
發行：Sony Pictures Releasing International

From director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, the OscarR-winning team of A Beautiful Mind, and producer John Calley (the OscarR-nominated The Remains of the Day), comes the film version of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the most popular and talked about novels of our time, with a cast headed by two-time Academy AwardR winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jurgen Prochnow, Paul Bettany and Jean Reno.

Produced by Grazer and Calley, The Da Vinci Code involves a thrilling murder investigation that unearths the biggest cover-up in human history.

Synopsis

Famed symbologist Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is called to the Louvre museum one night where a curator has been murdered, leaving behind a mysterious trail of symbols and clues. With his own survival at stake, Langdon, aided by the police cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), unveils a series of stunning secrets hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, all leading to a covert society dedicated to guarding an ancient secret that has remained hidden for 2000 years.

The pair set off on a thrilling quest through Paris, London and Scotland, collecting clues as they desperately attempt to crack the code and reveal secrets that will shake the very foundations of mankind.

Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Present A Brian Grazer, John Calley Production The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jurgen Prochnow with Paul Bettany and Jean Reno. The film is directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman based upon the book by Dan Brown. The producers are Brian Grazer and John Calley. The executive producers are Todd Hallowell and Dan Brown. The director of photography is Salvatore Totino. The production designer is Allan Cameron. The editors are Dan Hanley, A.C.E. and Mike Hill, A.C.E. The costume designer is Daniel Orlandi. The music is by Hans Zimmer. The associate producers are Kathleen McGill and Louisa Velis.

The Genesis of The Da Vinci Code - From Book to Screen

The phenomenal success of Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code was just beginning to invade the public consciousness when producer John Calley was encouraged to read the book by Sony Chairman Howard Stringer. "I was crazed by it, fascinated. It was a first-rate thriller," Calley recalls. He immediately optioned the film rights.

At the same time, Imagine Entertainment co-chairman Brian Grazer and his partner, director and producer Ron Howard, were also keen on adapting the book to the screen. Grazer was especially intrigued by some of its underlying issues, "Not only did I like The Da Vinci Code as an entertaining and exciting read, but there were certain profound things about the story that caught my attention. There were questions of history versus the creation of history - questions I found exciting and compelling."

When Grazer and Howard learned that Calley had already optioned the rights, they approached him with their ideas about a movie version of The Da Vinci Code and a partnership was formed.

Howard's wife was reading the book with her book group when he mentioned that he might direct a film version, and was delighted that their reactions were all glowing. He says: "I discovered the book more or less the way the whole world did - through amazing word-of-mouth. People are interested in it for different reasons and are personally impacted by it in a variety of ways."

But the main reason he was eager to direct The Da Vinci Code has to do with his love of the adventure thriller genre. "This story has all the style and traditional suspense elements that make a movie work as an entertaining narrative," says Howard. "It takes the viewer along with the confidence that it's headed in a particular direction but then surprises you in so many ways. That's why the story Dan Brown created so captivated his readers. It feels familiar as a mystery and as a thriller but then, wow, there's this fascinating turn of events."

Calley was glad to hear of Howard's interest in The Da Vinci Code, having long searched for the right opportunity to work with the OscarR-winning director. "I've always admired Ron," says Calley. "He's skillful and moderate in the best sense, in that he never has an agenda. He was a great choice for this project since he brings a kind of fundamental intelligence that is totally appropriate to the material."

Having previously collaborated with screenwriter Akiva Goldsman on A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, Howard felt he was the natural choice to adapt Dan Brown's book. "It was a pretty daunting task," says Howard. "By the time we'd all decided to make it into a movie, the book had gone from being a big hit to being this historic success story. I'd already been working very closely with Akiva and he and I had some fairly deep conversations about the novel, because it's more than just believing it would make a good movie story. In choosing to take it to the screen you also have to ask yourself a lot of the questions that the book poses to the reader. I've never really been involved in a film project like this, one that not only generates feeling and emotion and is entertaining, but also really stimulates great conversation."

Goldsman himself says he was a bit daunted by the task of adapting Brown's best-selling literary phenomenon to the screen, since so many people had read it and had visualized it in their own minds. "I was tremendously impressed by the book and had absolutely no idea how to adapt it since it's such a complex, labyrinthine and intricate piece of fiction," Goldsman confesses. "My inclination was to shy away from it. But then I sat down with Ron, and he had such a clear idea of what he wanted to do with it that he turned me around and gave me the confidence to try."

Two-time Academy AwardR winner Tom Hanks, who embodies Dan Brown's protagonist Robert Langdon in the film, also acknowledges the challenges in trying to adapt such a successful book for the big screen: "You have to give every reader what they're expecting, because, quite frankly, the book is really good," says Hanks. "You could change it, make it different, but you'd better be sure you're also making it better. Akiva's job in adapting something that is as specific as The Da Vinci Code is a monumental task, because of all of his great instincts as a screenwriter about what makes for a good cinematic narrative."

The filmmakers frequently conferred with Brown during the writing of the adaptation. "Dan made himself accessible in the most understanding, collaborative kind of way, in terms of his acceptance of the fact that of course the screenplay was not going to be a verbatim version of the novel," remembers Howard. "He knew we were going to have to streamline it somewhat. But he was a really important resource in helping us interpret things he had learned or read including several things he discovered after he wrote the book, which have found their way into the script. So, our movie is in some ways a kind of an updated, annotated version of The Da Vinci Code."

The Cast and Characters

After Goldsman's screenplay was completed, the next major hurdle for the film makers was to assemble a cast that would embody the essence of the fascinating personalities that populate Brown's novel and could translate to the screen as engaging and entertaining characters in their own right.

As executive producer Todd Hallowell sees it: "This is a unique film in that it has a truly international cast. Watching Ron slowly piece together all the right elements so that they perfectly meshed was a pretty amazing process. He really put together an extraordinary ensemble."

Tom Hanks/Robert Langdon

"Robert Langdon is the thinking man's hero, someone who is on a relentless quest to unravel this mystery," observes screenwriter Goldsman. "Throughout history, we have been drawn to people who seek out the truth, who search for the grail. They were often knights, men who were pure of heart, strong of spirit and unrelenting."

Hanks had been involved with The Da Vinci Code almost from its inception. Though he and Howard had not collaborated in the past several years, they remained close. "It was more than friendship that led me to want to cast Tom as Robert Langdon," says Howard. "When I started talking to him about the role, I had a similar kind of positive feeling I had when we first discussed Apollo 13 a decade ago. There was a natural intersection between Tom as an actor and a person and the sensibility of the character of Robert Langdon. He's this guy to a tee. Langdon is driven by curiosity and has a wonderfully dry sense of humor. More than anything else, Langdon is fascinated by details and eager to understand the truth. Tom is also very smart and fascinated by the world around him. In casting Tom, I was certain I had brought in a really intelligent and helpful collaborator."

Hanks was eager to work with Howard again, particularly since he was taking on the challenge of playing a character so different from anything in his own life experience. "Langdon has this arcane knowledge that is very deep and quite extensive and he is fascinated by it," says Hanks. "He has somehow turned this knowledge into a lucrative career. As a symbologist he can tell you what three marks on a cave wall represent, what they meant then and how they've come to be interpreted down through the ages. This is a guy who is continuously observing absolutely everything. He sees all these connections, all the time."

The actor says his collaboration with Howard was essential in his process of discovering the character of Robert Langdon: "Ron is so easy-going. At the same time he's incredibly responsible, creatively vigilant and dedicated to excellence."

Audrey Tautou/Sophie Neveu

The name Sophie comes from Greek Sofia for wisdom and Neveu means "descendent" in French - a descendent of Mary Magdalene perhaps?

For Howard the role of Sophie Neveu was a crucial one in telling the story of The Da Vinci Code. "One of the themes that resonated with me when I read the novel, and one of the things I really wanted to make sure was front and center in the movie, was the idea of the sacred feminine," says Howard. "I have three daughters, and have been married for 30 years to a powerful woman, so this was very important to me. Sophie's emotional journey in The Da Vinci Code is really exciting. Having such a strong female character at the center, watching her come to understand who she really is as this mystery of her life unfolds, adds a great deal of wonderful suspense to the thriller."

Screenwriter Goldsman was equally intrigued by the concept of the sacred feminine. "For me, the most interesting aspect of The Da Vinci Code was the story of this girl who, in her search for identity, turns out to be far more than she ever imagined. From a writing point of view, that's very fertile territory. It's not as panoramic and epic as other aspects of the novel, but for me, it was the most compelling part, the most human part."

Casting the right actress to perfectly capture this elevated view of Sophie Neveu was always going to be difficult, the filmmakers acknowledged. Several prominent French actresses were auditioned and the finalists flew to Los Angeles to read with Hanks. Audrey Tautou, who had only made one other English-language film, Dirty Pretty Things, was the least prepared in terms of the amount of time she had been given to work on her scenes, yet she immediately impressed the filmmakers with the nuances she brought to her work. "Audrey has a unique quality that, given the mystical elements of The Da Vinci Code, was absolutely perfect," observes Howard. "She is both enigmatic and accessible."

Adds Tom Hanks: "Audrey is intimidating and mysterious. She's very ethereal in some ways, and yet, when she asks a question, you believe that this is a genuine inquiry."

Ian McKellen/Sir Leigh Teabing

"Teabing is the sphinx of the story," says Goldsman, "he is full of mysteries and serves as an engine, both in the book and the movie. Much of what happens is due to this puppet master."

"There are a number of great British actors who could have played Sir Leigh Teabing," says Howard, "but I met Sir Ian and I immediately knew we'd have a great time working together and that he'd do something remarkable with that character. It turns out I was right. I've admired him in so many different films, because he has this amazing range from high-profile popular-entertainment characters, to very obscure, dark, intriguing characters in small films."

Hanks also appreciated the chance to work with such an experienced and respected actor: "I don't think anybody has more fun acting than Sir Ian McKellen," he says. "Our first scene on film was very representative of every day we were together in meetings and rehearsals. There was this constant, delightful probing. He was always scanning out not just the dialogue but also the sensibilities behind it. Then when he got on the set he never stopped playing with that. Whether he was sitting at a table discussing the history of the Priory Of Sion, or coming down the stairs to say 'Who do we have here?' it just came out different every time. I thought, well, this guy is just in the biggest playhouse in the world. He seemed to delight in finding a new way to do it every single time."

Paul Bettany/Silas

In taking on the role of Silas, perhaps the most bizarre character in Dan Brown's novel, actor Paul Bettany says his primary mission was to humanize the deadly monk. "Silas is an incredibly alienated individual who is desperate for a father figure. The first person who is kind to him is Aringarosa. It's unfortunate that he uses Silas' damaged psyche as a weapon. Silas' father had called him a ghost and Silas ended up in prison for killing him. Then he meets Aringarosa who calls and suddenly his physical being makes sense and has a meaning for him."

Silas was the last major role to be cast because, though Howard auditioned numerous actors, he always felt there was something missing in their approach to the character. He had previously worked with Bettany in the OscarR-winning A Beautiful Mind, and was an admirer of his performance in Gangster No. 1, which Howard felt showed enormous range and power. So he turned to Bettany in the hopes of finding the perfect Silas - and never looked back.

"Paul loved the character, loved the script, and really went out on a limb, gambling a lot to play him," says Howard. "He's terrifying in the movie, just terrifying. It also made for some bizarre days on the set because, in between setups, he was the Paul Bettany who has become my friend, and then when the cameras were rolling, something would shift and I realized that he was drawing on a deep reserve to create his character. It was his talent, but also something else that allowed the character to be terrifying but dimensionalized. He brought so much to that role. He was everything you could have wished for from the character in the book and more - Silas as a human being in the hands of Paul Bettany."

Jean Reno/Bezu Fache

The name Bezu is the location of a Knights Templar fortress in Southern France, and Fache means cross in French.

Jean Reno had previously worked with producer John Calley and was very interested in the role of Bezu Fache because he was fascinated by the idea of playing a character who is disappointed when his trust in Aringarosa is betrayed. "He's involved in this because he truly believes in something," Reno explains. "But first and foremost he's a cop and he's trying to do his job. I was interested in exploring the idea of how my character would react when he's betrayed by an Archbishop."

Howard says there's nobody better in his mind to play the French police captain than Reno. "Jean is one of those spirits that just brings a lot of joy to the process, as well as intelligence, great taste and talent."

In portraying Bezu Fache, Reno was stepping into a role that was tailor-made for him as well, he explains. "It was quite an honor when I found out that Dan Brown said he wrote the character with me in mind. It made playing him in the film even more meaningful to me."

Alfred Molina/Bishop Aringarosa

The bishop's name is one of the most intriguing in Brown's novel. Aringa meaning herring and Rosa means red. Does this mean the Bishop is a red herring?

Alfred Molina was cast while he was in production on As You Like It, which co-stars Howard's daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard. He dashed to London from the location where he was shooting in another part of England for a read-through and a day of rehearsal. Molina says the opportunity to spend time with Howard and screenwriter Goldsman prior to production was invaluable. "Ron, Akiva and I sat in a room going over all the scenes I was in with a fine-tooth comb, fine tuning all the different points that we wanted to bring out and talking about how best to tell the story in terms of what my character was doing, " he explains.

Howard appreciated the attention Molina lavished on his role in order to plumb the inner depths of his character. "Alfred understood the character and the culture he comes from in ways that were far more sophisticated and authentic than is actually written. That extra level of truth found its way into his character and onto the screen."

The Look of The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code filmed at a number of locations throughout Europe and at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios, where several sets were built.

Although the production did shoot at the Louvre in Paris, it was essential to rebuild the Grand Galerie in a studio so that a majority of the action could unfold in a more controlled environment, and away from the masterpieces at the actual museum. To this end, production designer Allan Cameron constructed sections of the museum on the "James Bond" stage at Pinewood Studios just outside of London. "I knew from the very beginning that we were going to build a small part of the Louvre on a stage," Cameron says. "But when we went to the Louvre we were worried about damaging the floors as well as any of the priceless paintings. After a couple of visits to Paris, we decided to build even more of the museum on the stages at Pinewood, which from my point of view was much more fun than shooting on location. "My scenic artist, James Gemmill, had to paint 150 paintings that required careful measurement at the real Louvre. We even had marble samples created to match the marbles around the skirtings and around the windows. Finally, floor boarding was constructed by my carpenter using wood veneers to approximate the floor in the Grand Galerie. They were then photographed and printed onto plastic sheets and laid on the floor."

Cameron explains that all the paintings that were reproduced were digitally photographed then blown up and painted over, sometimes projected on the wall and painted by Gemmill. "James painted them all like the original paintings. He knows all about glazes and crackle techniques. So the actual surface of the paintings looks pretty realistic."

Adds James Gemmill (Head Scenic Artist) on the texture of the painting reproductions that he created: "I tried to pay attention to all the textures of the paintings," says Gemmill. "We can't paint using the exact techniques, but the textures are important. That's the difference between looking at a movie and seeing a painting on a wall and realizing that it's a print rather than a painting. When the light is reflected off it, you can see the texture, so it's important to get it right."

A number of other sets were also built at Shepperton Studios in the southwest of London, including the interior of Saint-Sulpice and a number of rooms inside Chateau Villette, where Leigh Teabing resides. "We wanted to use the real chateau in the story and we were lucky enough to get permission to shoot there," says Cameron. "But the library, kitchen and study were built on the stage. They were interesting sets to build and dress since they include a significant amount of props."

"Obviously, we based the architecture of the set pieces on the architecture in the real chateau," Cameron continues, "the beautiful carvings, mouldings and cornices. We took all the dressing out of the real chateau and put in our own so that it looked more like Teabing's residence. As we move into the study and library, which is his den, it reflects his character and we designed many of the props with Teabing in mind."

Background

The Works of Leonardo da Vinci: Art & The Da Vinci Code

The Last Supper

In The Da Vinci Code, the character of Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) offers a unique interpretation of this legendary painting, which Leonardo da Vinci started in 1495 and completed in 1498. Commissioned by his patron, the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, The Last Supper is in fact a mural painted directly onto the refectory wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan.

The painting, which measures 15 feet by 29 feet, portrays the moment after Jesus informs his apostles that one of them is about to betray him. The natural way the apostles' emotions are depicted, ranging from shock to consternation to the covert lack of expression on the face of Judas, was radically different from anything that had preceded it. The painting is anachronistic, using the kind of table, tablecloth, upright chairs and cutlery that would have been in everyday use by the monks in the 15th century.

Leonardo arranged the apostles in four groups of three, with Christ in the center, set apart from the apostles with empty space around him. The one-point perspective creates a central triangle composed of two triangles on each side. To the right of Jesus is the feminized figure of a young apostle, a central clue to the shocking conclusion of The Da Vinci Code.

Unfortunately, Leonardo chose not to use the conventional method for painting frescoes, which was to apply egg tempura on wet plaster. Instead, he painted directly onto the dry wall. By 1556, the art historian Vasari wrote that the painting had deteriorated so badly only the vague shapes of the figures remained.

Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and recognizable portraits ever painted. Leonardo began painting this enigmatic woman with a curiously inviting smile in 1503 and may have continued working on it for years. Three years before his death, when Leonardo went to France to work for the young King Francois I, he took the portrait with him. The painting was first displayed at Fontainebleau, then at Versailles, and finally in the Louvre, where its unknown subject now smiles through protective glass as rapt throngs wait to see her. The Mona Lisa is arguably the museum's most popular attraction.

For many years the painting was known as La Gioconda, since the portrait's subject was believed to be Elisabetta, third wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo. But the painting remains the subject of speculation. Some even believe Leonardo used himself as a model, others that the woman was a mistress of one of the Medicis.

Actor Jean Reno has been enamoured with the painting for most of his life. "I come back again and again to the Mona Lisa," he says. "For me, it has what I call a kind of perfume, because when you turn around, the eyes seem to be following you. It's this exchange between the painting and the observer that I refer to as its perfume, its ability to intoxicate. While others say the power of Da Vinci's work is in her smile, for me it is her eyes."

Adds Howard: "There's just something mesmerizing, engrossing and thought provoking about the Mona Lisa. This is why the painting is a great choice as an iconic reflection of the movie and as a graphic, identifiable image related to the story of The Da Vinci Code - not only was it painted by da Vinci but its enigmatic, mysterious quality perfectly mirrors the movie's themes."

Virgin of the Rocks

In 1483, Leonardo was commissioned to paint a work intended to be the center of an altarpiece. There are two paintings of the Virgin of the Rocks-the original on canvas, which hangs in the Louvre, and a later copy painted on wood, which is in the collection of the National Gallery in London-depicting the Virgin Mary sitting with the infants Jesus and John the Baptist, accompanied by the Archangel Uriel.

The painting, sometimes called the Madonna of the Rocks, figures in the complex mystery of The Da Vinci Code.

History & The Da Vinci Code

The Knights Templar

The Knights Templar came into being in 1118 after the holy city of Jerusalem (which had been conquered in 614 A.D. by the Caliph Umar) was recaptured by Christian forces during the First Crusade. The new Kingdom of Jerusalem was ruled by Baldwin I, crowned in 1100, and the Knights, led by Hugues de Payens, occupied a wing of his castle in the former Al Aqsa Mosque, where the great Temple of Solomon had once stood. As a result, they soon became known as the Knights of the Temple, or Templars. The Knights were a monastic military order dedicated to the protection of Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Lands. As knightly monks, they took vows of poverty and celibacy. Their emblem was a red cross on a white tunic, while their sergeants (who were not members of the nobility) wore red on black. The order was endorsed by Bernard, the powerful Abbott of Clairvaux (founder of the Cistercian Order, later beatified as St. Bernard) and the order was officially recognized by the Church at the Council of Troyes in 1128. It is probable that Bernard wrote the Templars' "Rule," which swore allegiance only to the Pope.

These fabled warriors soon began expanding their mandate from protecting pilgrims to fighting for all the causes of the Holy Kingdom of Jerusalem. They went from protecting property for absent pilgrims to banking - loaning would-be pilgrims funds for the journey against their property - and levying taxes as well as collecting tithes. Their land holdings and wealth soon became vast, and their influence was sufficient to provoke resentment by political leaders, who were never able to gain control of them. The Templars' holdings stretched across Europe and included castles in the Holy Land and Cyprus, and their knowledge of the East inevitably involved them in politics. They were the forerunners of the modern professional military; a dedicated, well-trained and disciplined institution that eschewed individual heroics in favor of the greater goal.

The Templars' chief rivals were the Hospitalers, an order begun in 1070 to care for pilgrims and provide the less wealthy with lodging. They, too, quickly evolved into a military order with great power and wealth. The refusal of these two powerful orders to work together and increasing indebtedness to them became a major headache for Europe's secular rulers, but the Hospitalers continued with their charitable works, which deflected the wrath that eventually destroyed the Templars.

On Friday October 13, 1307 (believed to be the origin of the superstition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day) King Philip IV of France issued orders for the arrest of the Templars and confiscation of their property. The captured Templars were tortured and confessed to a variety of heresies and perversions. In spite of efforts to save the order - in a few trials members were found innocent - the forces against them were too determined, and Jacques de Molay, the order's last Grand Master, was burned at the stake in 1314, ending the Knights Templar after 200 years.

The Priory of Sion

In his novel, The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown contends that the Priory of Sion is a real organization founded in 1099, and that parchments housed at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris reveal that its membership included many leading figures of literature, art and science. However, the documents in the Bibliotheque Nationale have been revealed to be modern forgeries placed there by Pierre Plantard, who admitted to having "founded" the Priory with three friends in 1956, either as a lark or part of a con. He was elected the Grand Master of the Priory in 1981.

The phoney documents and manuscripts, which have become known as the "Dossiers Secrets," claim that the secret organization was founded in 1099 by Godefroy de Bouillon, who led the first army to depart for Jerusalem during the First Crusade, and was the original ruler of the recaptured Holy Land. The Priory is also given credit for the creation of the Knights Templar, which supposedly then split with them some 100 years later.

The Da Vinci Code Locations

The production team on The Da Vinci Code travelled from Paris to the United Kingdom to Malta, stopping at some of the most fascinating and significant historical landmarks in Europe.

Although a number of sets were built at Shepperton and Pinewood Studios, the majority of the film's key scenes were shot on location. Says Tom Hanks: "We were in many of the actual places mentioned in the book, with all the amazing historical significance that entailed. We got to crawl through some little doors and kneel on some very hard floors. Without a doubt, however, it helped me as an actor to go even farther into my portrayal of Robert Langdon. It was a very different experience than driving to a Hollywood studio every day and going to Stage 6 to shoot your scenes."

France

The initial scenes of The Da Vinci Code were shot in the streets of Paris, where the intricate and exciting Smart-car chase scenes took place at the legendary Musee du Louvre, and outside the city at the Chateau de Villette near Versailles.

Originally constructed as a fortress to protect the Right Bank in the late 12th century, the Louvre has played a long and varied role in Parisian history. It first was transformed into a Gothic royal residence in the 14th century by Charles V, and then ambitiously recreated as a Renaissance palace in the 16th century for King Francois I, the last patron of Leonardo da Vinci. The Grande Galerie opened as a museum in 1793. Nearly 200 years later, after many more changes and extensions, Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei designed new underground spaces as well as the controversial glass pyramid that now serves as the museum's entrance and is an important symbol in the movie.

The production was fortunate enough to be one of very few granted access to film inside the museum's Grande Galerie after hours. "We felt extremely privileged to be able to shoot there. It's a magnificent touch for the film," says Hanks.

Adds his co-star Audrey Tautou: "I really liked that we were able to be in the Louvre at night and have all the paintings and the statues to ourselves. It was a truly stimulating and intoxicating experience."

Director Howard likened his adventure inside the Louvre to spelunking. "It's a little bit like going into a cave and shining your light around and seeing the amazing formations. When you're in the Louvre alone, you feel like you're in a cavern with manmade treasures, art treasures. As a filmmaker it is humbling to stand in awe at the sheer volume of great work that resides within the walls of this one museum."

The character Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) lives in the Chateau de Villette, which lies northwest of Paris, close to Versailles. (Langdon and Sophie arrive there late at night in the armored truck they have appropriated to seek his advice on the Holy Grail). Completed on or about 1696 for Francois Mansart, the Count of Aufflay, (Ambassador to Venice under King Louis XIV), the impressive 185-acre estate includes two rectangular lakes, cascading fountains and beautiful gardens designed by Andre Le Notre, who also designed the gardens of the Palais de Versailles. Filming took place over three nights on the grounds of the Chateau, though the majority of the interiors (apart from the foyer) were filmed on various soundstages at Shepperton Studios.

United Kingdom

Travelling to London to find additional clues in solving the riddle of the cryptex, Langdon, Neveu and Teabing race to Temple Church, which is located between Fleet Street and the River Thames. The church, consecrated in 1185, was one element of a temple constructed in the 12th century to serve as the headquarters in England of the Knights Templar. The church is divided into two parts, the original Round, and the rectangular Chancel, completed in 1240. The Round was designed after the round Holy Church of the Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Nine life-size stone effigies of knights lie on the floor. After the destruction and abolition of the Knights Templar in 1307, the rival Knights Hospitalers took over until they were ousted and their properties seized by Henry VIII. The Crown eventually rented parts of the temple to two colleges of lawyers, collectively called the Inns of Court, who use it and the surrounding area to this day. The church was bombed in 1941 during WWII, and has been painstakingly reconstructed, down to its leaning marble columns.

Soon after exploring Temple Church, Langdon realizes that they have come to the wrong place and after some research he and Sophie set off for Westminster Abbey. Although the exterior street scenes outside the Abbey were shot adjacent to the actual location, the interior scenes of the Abbey and the Chapter House were shot at Lincoln Cathedral three hours north of London.

Lincoln Cathedral, consecrated in 1092, was built by Bishop Remigius on orders of William the Conqueror, and is a universally admired example of Early English Gothic architecture. It has survived earthquakes, fires and collapsing spires over the centuries. The central tower rises to 271 feet and remains the highest cathedral tower in Europe without a spire, and during the 200 years that the original spire stood (before collapsing in 1594) it was the world's tallest structure. Lincoln Cathedral has played a prominent role in English history. A bishop of Lincoln was one of the signatories of the Magna Carta, an original copy of which is still housed in the castle adjacent to the Cathedral.

The logistical difficulties of such a high profile film unit shooting on a street outside Westminster Abbey, one of London's biggest tourist attractions, were enormous. However, as with much of the shoot, passers by were more excited than irritated by the shut down roads, and in the case of Westminster Abbey, they ended up as extras in the film. Explains Howard: "The nature of the scene we were shooting was the climax of the story, and I will never forget the hordes of onlookers that we were not allowed to control or partition off, or even get out of our frame. So we had to devise a way so that we could just shoot with them there, and at the time I was thinking, 'This is going to be a disaster.' But we asked for the crowd's co-operation and they obliged. It was raining a bit, but not enough so that it could be seen on film. We'd started the scene dry, so we asked that, even though they were getting rained on for a certain take, would they take down their umbrellas, and they obliged. We also asked for no flash photography, no yelling over the actors doing their dialogue. They worked with us, applauding the actors after each take. British good manners really came into play that day."

Langdon and Neveu's quest finally ends at Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Rosslyn Chapel is located seven miles south of Edinburgh, in the town of Roslin, which was created to house the chapel's masons. The Chapel was founded in 1446 by Sir William St. Clair, Prince of Orkney, who presumably intended to build a far larger church to be laid out in the shape of a cross. Work was halted when Sir William died in 1484.

The Gothic Chapel, which measures only 69 feet by 35 feet, contains intricate stone carvings that capture the imagination, ranging from traditional Christian depictions to Norse and Celtic myths to the supposed death mask of Robert the Bruce. There are dragons, devils, and 100 Green Men. It's no wonder the chapel has so captured writers - Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth among them.

Legend surrounds the chapel, and it's said that William St. Clair was a Grand Master of the Templars. Another legend, suggested by stone carvings that appear to be rows of corn - a New World vegetable as yet undiscovered at the time of the carving - is that a grandfather of William St. Clair may have reached Newfoundland in 1398 and travelled south into Massachusetts.

The Lincolnshire countryside stood in for Italy with Burghley House in Lincolnshire substituting for Castle Gandolfo, where Bishop Aringarosa journeys to take delivery of a fortune in Vatican bearer bonds. Burghley House was built and designed (in the main) by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, between the years 1555 to 1587, and is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Elizabethan architecture. There are more than 100 rooms in the house, and the production used, among others, the magnificent Heaven Room and Hell Staircase, both painted by Antonio Verrio.

Malta

The last stop for the production team was the island of Malta where a number of flashback sequences were shot, including scenes set in the Holy Land and Spain. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Malta has been a crossroads for ancient and modern seafarers, which is reflected in the island's varied architecture. In particular, one of the film's locations, the fort at Vittoriosa, was the Knights of St. John's (the Hospitalers) home after they had been driven from Rhodes. For a period of 250 years, the Knights ruled from Malta to defend Christianity from the Ottoman Empire. They were finally disbanded by Napoleon.

About the Cast

Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

One of the world's most admired and respected actors today, Tom Hanks also holds the distinction of being the first actor in 50 years to be awarded back-to-back Best Actor AcademyR Awards. In 1993, he was rewarded for his compelling performance as the AIDS-stricken lawyer in Philadelphia and the following year he won the OscarR for his outstanding performance in Forrest Gump. He also won Golden Globes for both of these performances. For Forrest Gump, Hanks also won a Peoples Choice Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Chicago Film Critics Award, a National Association of Theater Owners Male Star of the Year Award and the Hollywood Women's Press Club Award. In addition to the many honors Hanks has received, he was named "Man of the Year" by the nation's oldest undergraduate dramatic group, Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, for his performance as astronaut Jim Lovell in Ron Howard's Apollo 13.

In 1996, Hanks made his feature film writing and directing debut with That Thing You Do!, which followed the meteoric rise to fame of a local rock band named "The Wonders" in the summer of 1964. The film's title song not only reached the Top 10 in many contemporary music charts, but was nominated for an Academy AwardR for Best Original Song. Hanks also appeared in the film in a supporting role.

Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Hanks first became interested in acting during high school. He attended California State University in Sacramento, where he appeared in a production of "The Cherry Orchard" and met director Vincent Dowling, the resident director of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland. Dowling invited Hanks to intern with the company, where he made his professional debut portraying Grumio in "The Taming of the Shrew." Hanks appeared in other Great Lakes productions, including "Two Gentleman of Verona," for which he received the Cleveland Critics Award for Best Actor. From Cleveland, Hanks went on to New York, where he appeared in his first feature film He Knows You're Alone and onstage in "The Taming of the Shrew."

Hanks got his first big break when he was cast as the lead in the ABC television comedy series "Bosom Buddies." This led to starring roles in Bachelor Party followed by Ron Howard's Splash - a box office hit that started him on his path to becoming one of Hollywood's busiest and most sought-after leading men. Hanks many film credits include Volunteers, Nothing in Common and A League of Their Own. In 1988, with his box office success established, Hanks achieved critical success with acclaimed performances in Punchline and Big (for which he earned his first Academy AwardR nomination and his first Golden Globe Award). The same year, the Los Angeles Film Critics recognized both performances, bestowing on Hanks their Best Actor Award.

Constantly challenging himself, Hanks served as executive producer for HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" - an ambitious 12-hour dramatic film anthology that explored the Apollo space program. Not only did Hanks personally help make this show a reality, he directed the first episode and wrote and appeared in the final episode.

In 1998, Hanks starred in Steven Spielberg's war drama Saving Private Ryan in which he played a soldier who went deep behind enemy lines to save a trapped private during the Allied invasion. He received another OscarR nomination for his work. The following year he starred in The Green Mile, which was written and directed by Frank Darabont and is based on the six-part serialized novel by Stephen King.

In 2000, Hanks starred in Cast Away for which he received yet another OscarR nomination for his portrayal as the sole survivor of a plane crash who is marooned on a deserted island. Cast Away was directed by Robert Zemeckis, from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr.

In 2000, he served as executive producer for another epic HBO miniseries, "Band of Brothers," based on Stephen Ambrose's book. He also directed one of the episodes. The miniseries aired in the spring of 2001 to wide-scale critical acclaim, leading to a Golden Globe win for the Best Miniseries in 2002.

In 2002, Hanks starred in the depression era drama The Road to Perdition opposite Paul Newman and Jude Law under Sam Mendes' direction. It was followed by Spielberg's stylish caper Catch Me If You Can opposite Leonardo DeCaprio, which was based on the true-life exploits of international confidence man Frank Abagnale Jr.

Hanks teamed again with Spielberg in The Terminal opposite Catherine Zeta Jones and followed it with the Coen brothers' dark comedy The Ladykillers, the story of an eccentric Southern professor who assembles a band of inept thieves to rob the Bandit Queen, a Mississippi riverboat casino.

In November 2004, Hanks starred in the film adaptation of the Caldecott Medal- winning children's book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. Hanks portrayed 'The Conductor' in this beloved children's book, which reunited him with Cast Away director Robert Zemeckis.

Hanks currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Rita Wilson, and their family.

Audrey Tautou - Sophie Neveu

Audrey Tautou first came to the attention of international audiences with her eponymous role in the phenomenally successful 2001 romantic fable Amelie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, for which she was nominated for the Cesar for Best Actress. The film was also nominated for several Academy AwardsR including Best Foreign Film. Two years later, Tautou once again collaborated with Jeunet on the epic A Very Long Engagement.

Most recently, Tautou has starred in Cedric Klapisch's Les Poupees Russes, and starred and sang in Alain Resnais' musical film Pas Sur La Bouche. Her first English-language role was in Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things in 2002.

Born on August 9, 1978 in Beaumont, France, Tautou showed a talent for comedy from an early age and started taking acting lessons at the Cours Florent acting school.

After graduation, Tautou landed several small roles on French television. She quickly moved to films and made an impression with her performance in Venus Beauty Institute (1999), which earned the Cesar for Best New Actress.

She subsequently appeared in a number of films that caught the attention of critics and general audiences alike: The leading role in Voyous Voyelle, Happenstance, God Is Great, I'm Not, L'Auberge Espagnole, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not and Happy End.

Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

Ian McKellen has been honored with more than 40 international awards for his performances on screen and stage, most recently a Lifetime Achievement Golden Bear from 2006 Berlin Film Festival.

Born and raised in the industrial north of England, McKellen started acting professionally in 1961. After graduating from Cambridge University and serving a three-year apprenticeship with regional British theatres, he rapidly established himself as the leading actor of his generation in Shakespeare and other classical plays in London.

His legendary performances as Shakespeare's "Richard II" and Marlowe's "Edward II" stormed the 1969 Edinburgh Festival and were televised. In pursuit of the ideal theatre ensemble, he was a founder/member of the Actors' Company. As leading man for the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played Macbeth opposite Dame Judi Dench, as well as Romeo, Iago and Toby Belch. He appeared in plays by Brecht, Chekhov, Ibsen, Jonson, Shaw and Stoppard. He has regularly starred at the National Theatre, most recently in "Peter Pan".

McKellen also works regularly on stage in the U.S.A. In New York, he won every award for his performance as Salieri in Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus." More recently he starred in "Dance of Death" and hosted "Saturday Night Live." He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2005.

McKellen has also worked extensively in television in such productions as Stephen Frears' "Walter," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "And the Band Played On," "Rasputin," "Cold Comfort Farm" and in the longest-running British soap opera "Coronation Street".

McKellen has made more than 40 movies and of late, has been discovered by a new generation of filmgoers as Magneto in the X-Men films, the third of which opens this summer, as well as his OscarR nominated performance in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 1996, he co-produced, co-scripted and starred in a film version of Richard III. Shortly thereafter, he won his first OscarR nomination for his portrayal of film director James Whale in Gods and Monsters. He has just voiced Toad in the animated Flushed Away.

McKellen recently delighted his fans by triumphantly playing Widow Twankey in the traditional pantomime "Aladdin" at Kevin Spacey's Old Vic Theatre and in Mark Ravenhill's "The Cut" at the Donmar Warehouse.

He has been an eloquent advocate for gay rights since he came out in 1988. In 1990, he was knighted for his contribution to the performing arts. A complete biography plus occasional diary entries and regular e-posts by McKellen can be found on www.mckellen.com

Alfred Molina - Bishop Aringarosa

Alfred Molina is an accomplished and versatile actor with more than 50 film, television and theater productions to his credit. Most recently, he received rave reviews as the villain Dr. Ock in the highly successful sequel Spider-ManR 2. In 2003, he appeared in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes and, in 2002, Undertaking Betty a comedy with Brenda Blethyn, Naomi Watts and Christopher Walken. In 2004, he had a yearlong run on Broadway starring in as Tevye in a revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" - for which he received a Tony nomination. He recently completed a starring role in "As You Like It" for HBO opposite Kevin Kline and Bryce Dallas Howard and directed by Kenneth Branagh, as well as the feature film The Hoax starring Richard Gere, which reunites him with Chocolat director Lasse Hallstrom.

In 2002, Molina starred as Diego Rivera in Frida opposite Salma Hayek, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush and Ashley Judd. His performance earned him Best Supporting Actor nominations from BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Critics Association. Molina also appeared in Columbia Pictures' thriller Identity opposite John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet.

Molina made his movie debut with a small role in Raiders of the Lost Ark and had a notable role as a Soviet sailor in Letter to Brezhnev. His breakthrough role came in 1987 when he portrayed Kenneth Halliwell, the tragic lover of Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears. In 1997, Molina earned accolades for his powerful performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, which won the Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a theatrical motion picture. His other films include The Impostors, Anna Karenina, Species, The Perez Family, Maverick, Enchanted April, Pete's Meteor, Not Without My Daughter, Dudley Do-Right and Texas Rangers. For television, Molina served as a producer and actor for the CBS situation comedy "Ladies Man" co-starring Sharon Lawrence and Betty White.

Molina made his Broadway debut in 1998 in the Tony-winning play "Art" with Alan Alda and Victor Garber. In addition to a Best Actor Tony nomination, he received a Drama Desk Award for his performance, and the production was honored with an Outer Circle Critics Award for best ensemble. He starred in the off-Broadway production of "Molly Sweeney," for which he was received a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Debut Performance. His other theater credits include roles in two Royal National Theatre productions, "Night of the Iguana" and David Mamet's "Speed the Plow," for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance, and "Serious Money" for the Royal Court Theatre. Molina also received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance in "Oklahoma" at the Palace.

Jurgen Prochnow - Vernet

Jurgen Prochnow's extensive film career includes credits as diverse as Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot, in which he memorably played the submarine captain, Air Force One, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient and David Lynch's Dune.

Some of his other films include Armand Mastroianni's The Celestine Prophecy, Reuben Leder's Baltic Storm, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, Danny Cannon's Judge Dredd, Uli Edel's Body of Evidence, John Irvin's Robin Hood, Euzhan Palcy's A Dry White Season, John Frankenheimer's The Fourth War, Tony Scott's Beverly Hills Cop II and Michael Mann's The Keep.

His television credits include A&E's "See Arnold Run," HBO productions "Dark Asylum" and "Forbidden," Fox's "Heaven's Fire," NBC's "Jewels" and CBS's "The Fire Next Time."

Paul Bettany - Silas

British-born Paul Bettany was first discovered by American audiences in A Knight's Tale, in which he played the comical role of Chaucer opposite Heath Ledger. For this performance, he won the London Film Critics' Award for Best Supporting Actor and he was named one of Daily Variety's "Ten to Watch" for 2001.

Classically trained at the Drama Centre in London, Bettany made his stage debut in a West End production of "An Inspector Calls" under the direction of Stephen Daldry. He spent a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in productions of "Richard III," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Julius Caesar" before landing his first feature film role in Bent.

Bettany returned to the stage to appear in "Love and Understanding" at London's Bush Theatre. He later reprised that role at the Long Wharf in Connecticut. The play led to more British television work, including Lynda La Plante's "Killer Net" and "Coming Home," in which he starred with Peter O'Toole.

Bettany's appearance in the Royal Court productions of "One More Wasted Year" and "Stranger's House" preceded his second feature film role in David Leland's The Land Girls with Catherine McCormack and Rachel Weisz.

In his first leading film role, Gangster No.1, Bettany was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and a London Film Critics' Award for Best Newcomer. Directed by Paul McGuigan the film co-starred Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows. That performance brought him to the attention of director Ron Howard, who cast him as the imaginary roommate of Russell Crowe's in the Academy AwardR-winning A Beautiful Mind. His performance earned him the London Film Critic's Award for Best British Actor.

Bettany then starred in Dogville for director Lars Von Trier. The film also starred Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skaarsgard and Lauren Bacall. He segued into the critically acclaimed Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World opposite Crowe for director Peter Weir. His performance won him the Evening Standard Award for Best British Actor, the London Film Critic's Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Elle Style Award for Best Actor. He was also nominated by the British Film Academy for Best Supporting Actor and by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

Bettany then starred in the romantic comedy Wimbledon opposite Kirsten Dunst for director Richard Loncraine. His most recent appearance was in the Warner Bros. thriller Firewall opposite Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen, which re-teamed him with director Loncraine.

Paul currently lives in NY with his wife, actress Jennifer Connelly, and their two sons.

Jean Reno - Bezu Fache

Jean Reno is the renowned French actor who rapidly gained recognition among American audiences with pivotal roles in box office blockbusters such as Brian DePalma's Mission: Impossible opposite Tom Cruise, Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, Luc Besson's The Professional with Natalie Portman and John Frankenheimer's Ronin opposite Robert De Niro. Reno recently starred opposite Steve Martin in The Pink Panther, which opened at #1 at the box office.

Upcoming for Reno is a co-starring role opposite James Franco in Tony Bill's World War I epic Flyboys, produced by Godzilla producer Dean Devlin as well as Mark Frydman and David Brown. He just finished shooting Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret with Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon and Anna Paquin.

Reno is one of France's most revered and respected actors, having starred opposite Gerard Depardieu in the blockbuster comedy Tais-toi! and Les Visiteurs, which became the highest grossing film in French box office history when it was released. Its sequel, Les Visiteurs II, also broke box office records. More recently, Reno touched American audiences with his romantic portrayal of a love-struck gourmet chef who sweeps Juliette Binoche off her feet in Jet Lag. He also starred in L'Empire de Loups (Empire of the Wolves), based on a best-selling French novel by Jean-Christophe Grange who also wrote Crimson Rivers, a novel that was also made into a blockbuster feature film starring Reno. He was also featured in Roberto Benigni's The Tiger and the Snow.

He has also enjoyed a tremendously successful collaboration with the acclaimed French director Luc Besson. In addition to The Professional, he has co starred in Besson's Le Dernier Combat, Subway opposite Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani, The Big Blue opposite Roseanna Arquette and the acclaimed thriller La Femme Nikita opposite Anne Parillaud. The duo also collaborated on the making of Wasabi, in which Reno also starred.

Born in Casablanca to Spanish parents, Reno pursued his dream of acting in France after serving his military service in Germany. Settling in Paris, Reno joined stage director Didier Flamand in a traveling theater company that took him around the country. His screen debut was in the French film Claire de Femme directed by Costa Gavras. Other international film credits include Francis Veber's Le Jaguar, Christian Lejale's Loulou Graffiti, Jean-Marie Poire's L'Operation Corned Beef, Eric Duret's L'Homme Au Masque D'Or, Marco Ferreri's I Love You, Bertrand Blier's Notre Histoire, and Jacques Monnet's Signes Exterieurs de Richesse. Other American film credits include Paul Weiland's For Roseanna in which he co-starred opposite Mercedes Ruehl, Lawrence Kasdan's French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan, and John McTiernan's Rollerball.

Reno just directed his first opera, a production of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" for the Teatro Regio Torino.

Reno, who spoke only his native Spanish, for the first 11 years of his life, speaks fluent French, Italian, English and Japanese. He divides his time between the South of France, Corsica, New York and Los Angeles.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Ron Howard - Director

Ron Howard is an Academy AwardR-winning filmmaker and one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films. Most recently, he directed and produced Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe, which received three OscarR nominations. He previously collaborated with Crowe on A Beautiful Mind, for which Howard earned an OscarR for Best Director and which also won awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. The film garnered four Golden Globes as well, including the award for Best Motion Picture Drama. Additionally, Howard won Best Director of the Year from the Directors Guild of America. Howard and producer Brian Grazer received the first annual Awareness Award from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign for their work on the film.

Howard's skill as a director has long been recognized. In 1995, he received his first Best Director of the Year award from the DGA for Apollo 13. The true-life drama also garnered nine Academy AwardR nominations, winning OscarsR for Best Film Editing and Best Sound. It also received Best Ensemble Cast and Best Supporting Actor awards from the Screen Actors Guild. Many of Howard's past films have received nods from the Academy, including the popular hits Backdraft, Parenthood and Cocoon, the last of which took home two OscarsR. Howard was recently honored by the Museum of Moving Images and was the recipient of 2006 ACE "Golden Eddie" award.

Howard's portfolio includes some of the most popular films of the past 20 years. In 1991, Howard created the acclaimed drama Backdraft starring Robert De Niro, Kurt Russell and William Baldwin. He followed it with the historical epic Far and Away starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Howard directed Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise and Delroy Lindo in the 1996 suspense thriller Ransom. Howard worked with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Kathleen Quinlan on Apollo 13, which was re-released recently in the IMAX format. Howard's other films include the blockbuster Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey, Parenthood starring Steve Martin, the fantasy epic Willow, Night Shift starring Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton and Shelley Long and the suspenseful western The Missing staring OscarR winners Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones.

Howard has also served as an executive producer on a number of award-winning films and television shows, such as the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" and Fox's Emmy award winner for Best Comedy, "Arrested Development," for which he also narrates.

Howard and long-time producing partner Brian Grazer first collaborated on the hit comedies Night Shift and Splash. The pair co-founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 to create independently produced feature films. The company has since produced a variety of popular feature films, including such hits as The Nutty Professor, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Bowfinger, The Paper, Fun With Dick and Jane, Inventing the Abbotts and Liar, Liar. Howard made his directorial debut in 1978 with the comedy Grand Theft Auto.

He began his career in film as an actor. He first appeared in The Journey and The Music Man, then as Opie on the long-running television series "The Andy Griffith Show." Howard later starred in the popular series "Happy Days" and drew favorable reviews for his performances in American Graffiti and The Shootist.

Akiva Goldsman - Screenplay by

Akiva Goldsman previously collaborated with Ron Howard on Cinderella Man and A Beautiful Mind for which he earned the 2001 Academy AwardR, Golden Globe Award and Writers Guild Award.

Goldsman's other writing credits include The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Practical Magic and I, Robot.

Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures has produced such films as Deep Blue Sea, Lost in Space, Starsky & Hutch, Constantine, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the upcoming Tonight, He Comes (starring Will Smith).

Born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, Goldsman graduated from Wesleyan University and attended the graduate program in creative writing at New York University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Rebecca.

Dan Brown - Based on the Book by/Executive Producer

Dan Brown is the author of numerous best-selling novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, one of the best selling novels of all time, which has sold 50 million copies worldwide.

In early 2004, all four of Brown's novels held spots on the New York Times bestseller list during the same week.

Recently named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine, Brown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker and others. His novels have been translated and published in 44 languages around the world.

Brown is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national best-selling eBook. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. Brown's follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security and classified technology.

The son of a Presidential Award-winning math professor and of a professional sacred musician, Brown grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. These complementary perspectives served as inspiration for his acclaimed novel Angels & Demons - a science vs. religion thriller set within a Swiss physics lab and Vatican City. Recently, he has begun work on a series of symbology thrillers featuring his popular protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of iconography and religious art. The upcoming series will include books set in Paris, London and Washington, D.C.

Brown's wife Blythe - an art historian and painter - collaborates on his research and accompanies him on his frequent research trips, their latest to Paris, where they spent time in the Louvre for his thriller The Da Vinci Code.

Brian Grazer - Producer

Brian Grazer is an Academy AwardR-winning producer who has been making movies and television programs for more than two decades. As both a writer and producer, he has been nominated for three Academy AwardsR, and in 2002 he won the Best Picture OscarR for A Beautiful Mind. In addition to winning three other Academy AwardsR, A Beautiful Mind also won four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture Drama) and earned Grazer the first annual Awareness Award from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign.

Over the years, Grazer's films and TV shows have been nominated for a total of 42 OscarsR and 64 Emmys. At the same time, his movies have generated more than $11.2 billion in worldwide theatrical, music and video grosses. Reflecting this combination of commercial and artistic achievement, the Producers Guild of America honored Grazer with the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. His accomplishments have also been recognized by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which in 1998 added Grazer to the short list of producers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On March 6th, 2003, ShoWest celebrated Grazer's success by honoring him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. On November 14th, 2005, in Los Angeles, Grazer was honored by the Fulfillment Fund.

In addition to A Beautiful Mind, Grazer's films include Apollo 13, for which Grazer won the Producers Guild's Daryl F. Zanuck Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award as well as an OscarR nomination for Best Picture in 1995, and Splash, which he co-wrote as well as produced, and for which he received an OscarR nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1984.

Grazer most recently produced Inside Man directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster, the critically acclaimed drama Cinderella Man, which earned three OscarR nominations, the hit thriller Flightplan starring Jodie Foster, which grossed more than $200 million worldwide and Jim Carrey's hit comedy Fun With Dick and Jane. Other feature film credits include, Inside Deep Throat, Friday Night Lights, 8 Mile, Blue Crush, The Missing, Intolerable Cruelty, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Ransom, My Girl, Backdraft, Kindergarten Cop, Parenthood, Clean and Sober and Spies Like Us.

Grazer's television productions include Fox's Golden Globe-winning and Emmy nominated drama series "24" and the Emmy award-winning Best Comedy series "Arrested Development." His additional television credits include NBC's "Miss Match," the WB's "Felicity," ABC's "Sports Night," as well as HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon," for which he won the Emmy for Outstanding Mini-Series.

Grazer began his career as a producer developing television projects. It was while he was executive producing TV pilots for Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s that Grazer first met his long-time friend and business partner Ron Howard. Their collaboration began in 1985 with the hit comedies Night Shift and Splash, and in 1986, the two founded Imagine Entertainment, which they continue to run together as co-chairmen.

John Calley - Producer

Calley, who most recently produced Columbia Pictures' Closer, which brought OscarR nominations for two of its co-stars Natalie Portman and Clive Owen, is a veteran Hollywood executive and producer. He began his ascent through the ranks of the entertainment industry in 1951 with NBC and moved into television production in the late 1950s with Henry Jaffe Enterprises where he produced such classic American television shows as "The Chevrolet Variety Hour with Dinah Shore," "The Shirley Temple Storybook" and "The Bell Telephone TV Hour." Later, as executive vice president at Filmways, Inc, he produced such films as The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, Castle Keep and Catch-22.

Calley joined Warner Bros. in 1968, where he held a variety of positions over the next 13 years including president, vice chairman and executive vice president of worldwide production. While he was at the helm, Warner released such acclaimed films as Dirty Harry, A Clockwork Orange, McCabe And Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, Enter The Dragon, Mean Streets, The Exorcist, Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno, Dog Day Afternoon, Superman and Chariots of Fire. In 1981, Calley moved to independent production, partnering with Mike Nichols on such films as Postcards from the Edge and The Remains of the Day (which earned him a Best Picture nomination). He returned to the executive suite as president and chief operating officer of United Artists Pictures overseeing the production of The Birdcage, Goldeneye, Leaving Las Vegas and Rob Roy. In 1996, Calley joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as chairman and chief executive officer, a position he held until 2003, when he returned to independent production.

Todd Hallowell - Executive Producer

Todd Hallowell most recently served as executive producer/second unit director on Ron Howard's Academy AwardR-winning A Beautiful Mind, as well as such other Howard films as Cinderella Man, The Missing, Ransom, Edtv, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Far and Away and The Paper.

Hallowell started his career as assistant art director on Grand Theft Auto, Howard's 1978 directorial debut. He subsequently served as art director on Back to the Future, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Fletch and the pilot for Michael Mann's groundbreaking TV series "Miami Vice."

Hallowell moved up to production designer on Adventures in Babysitting, Burglar, Vital Signs, The Dream Team, Class Action and Howard's Parenthood. He directed the second-unit sequences in Striking Distance, Adventures in Babysitting and Money Train.

Continuing his collaboration with Howard, Hallowell served as associate producer/second-unit director on Backdraft. For Howard's award-winning Apollo 13, his duties as executive producer/second-unit director were recognized, along with producer Brian Grazer, by Producer of the Year honors from the Producers Guild of America.

Salvatore Totino - Director of Photography

Totino has previously collaborated with Ron Howard on Cinderella Man and The Missing. Other film credits include Roger Michell's Changing Lanes and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday.

A prolific commercial Director of Photography, Totino has worked on well over 300 hundred commercials and won the 1995 Clio Award Gold Statue for Best Cinematography for his work on H.I.S. Jeans.

Totino has also worked on a number of music videos with artists as varied as Tracy Chapman, U2, Radiohead, REM, Tina Turner and Kings of Leon.

Allan Cameron - Production Designer

Having previously collaborated with Ron Howard on Far and Away and Willow, Allan Cameron's other recent film credits include Breck Eisner's Sahara, Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing, The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, David Dobkin's Shanghai Knights and Shekhar Kapur's Four Feathers.

Other credits include Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, Hollow Man and Showgirls, Roger Spottiswoode's Tomorrow Never Dies and Air America, Steve Barron's The Adventures of Pinocchio, Stephen Sommers' The Jungle Book, Martin Campbell's No Escape, Thomas Carter's Swing Kids, John Mackenzie's The Fourth Protocol and The Honorary Consul, Russell Mulcahy's Highlander and Trevor Nunn's Lady Jane. He previously served as art director on Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Cameron won a BAFTA award for the television miniseries "Edward and Mrs. Simpson" and was nominated for a BAFTA award for his work on Michael Radford's 1984.

Other television credits include "The Naked Civil Servant," for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Production Design, "Strong Medicine," "Blood Royal: William the Conqueror" (first episode), "Lace," "Princess Daisy" and "The Professionals." For Thames Television he worked on "Armchair Theatre," "Public Eye," "Callan," "Three Weeks," "Born and Bred" and "Van Der Valk."

Cameron also designed several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, including "Patience," "The Mikado," "The Pirates of Penzance," "HMS Pinafore," "Ruddigore," "The Sorcerer," "The Yeoman of the Guard," "Iolanthe," "The Gondoliers," "Princess Ida," "Trial by Jury" and "Cox and Box."

Dan Hanley, A.C.E. and Mike Hill, A.C.E. - Editors

Long time collaborators, editors Daniel Hanley and Michael Hill won the Academy Award for Best Editing in 1996 for their work on Howard's Apollo 13. Other collaborations with Howard include Cinderella Man, The Missing, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Edtv, Ransom, The Paper, Far and Away, Backdraft, Parenthood, Willow, Gung Ho, Splash, Nightshift and Cocoon.

Other editing credits include Ted Demme's Life, Dennis Dugan's Problem Child, Mary Lambert's Pet Semetary and Mark Lester's Armed & Dangerous. Hanley's only credit without Hill was Frank Oz's In and Out.

Daniel Orlandi - Costume Designer

Having recently collaborated with Ron Howard on Cinderella Man, Emmy award-winner Daniel Orlandi's recent costume designs have been seen in a variety of motion picture and television projects, including Wayne Wang's Last Holiday and John Lee Hancock's The Alamo. He also designed for Peyton Reed's Down with Love, as well as Joel Schumacher's Flawless and Phone Booth. He has just finished working on Schumacher's upcoming The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey. For television, Orlandi designed the costumes for the hit NBC series "Ed."

His additional feature film credits as costume designer include Jay Roach's Meet the Parents and Tony Scott's The Fan. He served as associate designer on Apollo 13 and Mr. Jones. His numerous credits as an assistant designer include Only You, Sister Act, Class Action, An Innocent Man, Max Dugan Returns and Pennies From Heaven.

Orlandi won the Emmy for costume design in 1989 for his work on "The Magic of David Copperfield" and he subsequently designed the next four Copperfield specials. His many television credits include Tribeca's mini-series for NBC, "Witness to the Mob," as well as the telefilms "Marilyn and Me," "Fatal Friendship," "Crazy from the Heart" and "Cab to Canada." He also designed the costumes for the pilots "Putting It Together," "Courthouse," "Texarkana" and "Knight Life."

From 1982 through 1988, Orlandi served as an executive with Bob Mackie Originals, having been with the company since its inception. He holds a BFA in drama from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University.

Hans Zimmer - Music

Hans Zimmer is one of the film industry's most respected composers, with more than 100 film scores to his credit.

In 1995, he won both an Academy AwardR and a Golden Globe for his score to the animated blockbuster The Lion King, which also spawned one of the most successful soundtrack albums ever. Zimmer's music for The Lion King continues to draw applause in the award-winning stage production of the musical, which earned the 1998 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as a Grammy for Best Original Cast Album.

Zimmer has garnered six additional Academy AwardR nominations, most recently for his Gladiator score, for which he also won a Golden Globe and earned a Grammy nomination. He has also been OscarR nominated for The Prince of Egypt, The Thin Red Line, As Good As It Gets, The Preacher's Wife and Rain Man. In 2005, he earned his seventh Golden Globe nomination for his score for James L. Brooks' comedy Spanglish. He had previously earned Golden Globe nominations for his work on The Last Samurai, Pearl Harbor, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Prince of Egypt.

The Da Vinci Code is Zimmer's second collaboration with Ron Howard. They previously worked together on Backdraft.

Long recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents, the German-born artist first achieved success in the pop music world as a member of The Buggles. The group's 1982 worldwide hit single, "Video Killed the Radio Star," helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video aired on MTV. That same year, Zimmer entered the realm of film music through a collaboration with famed composer Stanley Myers (The Deer Hunter) on the acclaimed drama Moonlighting. He continued his association with Myers on such projects as Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Launderette and Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, learning the power of combining modern synthesized percussion beats with the melodies of classical music. After 15 collaborations with Meyers, Zimmer began his solo-composing career with 1988's A World Apart.

Zimmer has worked with some of the industry's most respected filmmakers, including Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down), James L. Brooks (As Good as It Gets), Gore Verbinski (The Ring, The Weather Man), Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line), Tony Scott (Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide, True Romance), Peter Weir (Green Card), Mike Nichols (Regarding Henry), John Boorman (Beyond Rangoon) and Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker). He also has frequently collaborated with directors Penny Marshall (A League of Their Own, Riding in Cars With Boys) and Tony Scott (Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide, True Romance).

Zimmer continues to break ground in the world of film music. A pioneer in the use of digital synthesizers, electronic keyboards and the latest computer technology, he is considered the father of integrating electronic sound with traditional orchestral arrangements.

Kathleen McGill - Associate Producer

Kathleen McGill is a veteran of almost 30 years in film production. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan in Theater. As a production accountant, McGill worked for nearly two decades on such New York-based productions as Saturday Night Fever, Hair, Manhattan, The Verdict, Q&A, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Billy Bathgate and The Concierge, among others. She also worked on Imagine Entertainment's Dream Team, Parenthood, Far and Away and Apollo 13.

She became a production manager in the mid 1990s working on such television projects as "Central Park West," "Witness to the Mob" and the first season of the series "Ed."

As unit production manager, McGill worked on Snake Eyes, Center Stage, Flawless, The Alamo and One Tough Cop, on which she was co-producer. She reunited with director Ron Howard on A Beautiful Mind and has continued as unit production manager and associate producer on his subsequent films The Missing and Cinderella Man.

McGill lives in New York City and Bradley Beach, New Jersey.

Louisa Velis - Associate Producer

Louisa Velis has been working with Ron Howard since he first began directing movies, and has been associate producer on all of his films since Far and Away, including The Paper, Apollo 13, Ransom, Edtv, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Beautiful Mind, The Missing and Cinderella Man, as well as The Alamo.

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