Decoding the 'Da Vinci' movie

By Sharon Waxman (The New York Times): LOS ANGELES - On the face of it, Hollywood projects don't get much simpler than "The Da Vinci Code," a movie being shot in Europe this summer, based on the international publishing phenomenon by Dan Brown. All the ingredients are there: a blockbuster book with 36 million copies in print, an Academy Award-winning team in the writer Akiva Goldsman and the director Ron Howard (for "A Beautiful Mind"), and an Oscar perennial, Tom Hanks, in the lead, as the Harvard professor Robert Langdon. [More] [Discuss]