Much better than The Da Vinci Code, in my opinion...

With The Da Vinci Code opening at #1 in every country in which it played, it looks like Sony has a franchise on its hands. Reportedly, Sony owns the rights to the character Robert Langdon and the studio is ready to film Angels and Demons.

I'm told it's absolutely true that Sony bought the rights to the Robert Langdon character. Not only is Harvard symbologist Langdon the protaganist in Dan Brown's already written novel, "Angels and Demons," but I know Langdon is also featured in a new book Brown is penning as we speak that takes off where Da Vinci Code leaves off. So that means Sony has the immediate prospect of not only one but two sequels. Wow, this town is really, really, gonna hate that studio now. (Just remember, Sony had that big bomb Bewitched last summer. They were due.) According to news reports, "Angels and Demons" was Brown's other book to feature Langdon: crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama, it thrusts Langdon together with an ancient and shadowy secret brotherhood, the Illuminati, the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. Their enemy is the Catholic Church and they're detemined to carry out the final phase of a legendary vendetta against it. There's a frantic quest through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals and a most secret vault to find the world's most powerful energy source (which I'm told is a bomb; I haven't read the book myself). The heroine is a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered. I'm told it's better than DVC.

You can see an article Dan Brown wrote exclusively for our sister site, The Internet Writing Journal here. In the article, Dan talks about the facts behind the book and all the interesting research he did all over (and under) the city of Rome. Angels and Demons is a great book: it's another Robert Langdon thriller (set before the events of The Da Vinci Code) and involves the Vatican, the Illuminati, secret crypts, codes and the conflict between science and religion. What's not to love?