'Faith is often denied throughout the movie.'ĭirector Howard wrote in the The Huffington Post that he believes Donohue is on a mission 'to paint me and the movie I directed, 'Angels & Demons,' as anti-Catholic,' a claim Howard emphatically denies. 'Now that we've previewed 'Angels & Demons,' Movieguide has decided to keep in effect our caution alert,' Baehr said. Ted Baehr, founder of Movieguide and the Christian Film & Television Commission, first issued an advisory alert about the film in April and reiterated it days before the movie's May 15 release. What happens is you get the audience thinking 'Well, maybe it's not all true, but probably some of it is true.' ' ' never even existed until May 1, 1776, but they have to pitch it back into the 1600s so they can trot out their favorite victim, Galileo. 'You've got Brown, Howard and Hanks in the movie all alleging that the Illuminati was this secret society which was brutalized by the Catholic Church in the 1600s.' 'I have a strong objection to the genre of mixing fact with fiction,' said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League. it's not relevant whether you've seen 'Da Vinci Code' or not.'īoth films, like the Brown novels they're based on, have been met with criticism for their melding of history and storytelling. 'If I thought was pinned to 'The Da Vinci Code' in some way then it would've been a lesser script to read and it wasn't,' McGregor said. Entertainment Weekly's Picks of the week.

'Angels & Demons' fails to draw Vatican's ire.McGregor, known for his role as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 'Star Wars' films, said that while 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels & Demons' are inextricably linked, the latter can stand on its own. While 'The Da Vinci Code' centered on the complex investigation of a murder in the Louvre and the theory that a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene produced descendants, the new film features a murder at the Vatican and a secret and powerful society known as the 'Illuminati.' It also reunites the Academy Award-winning actor with director Ron Howard, who helmed 'Da Vinci,' and teams Hanks with actor Ewan McGregor and Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer. Watch Hanks talk aboout the controversy » The movie ventures into similar waters as its predecessor, 'The Da Vinci Code,' with Hanks reprising the role of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbology expert, and conspiracy theories galore. 'I think a kind of natural reaction is now that somehow because it's the second Robert Langdon mystery that there is some degree of controversy over it. 'Everybody is looking for some scandal whether a scandal exists or not,' Hanks said of the film. But when it comes to the new film based on a Brown novel, 'Angels & Demons,' star Tom Hanks says talk of controversy is much ado about nothing.

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