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This movie became the first big-screen casualty of the Hollywood writer's strike in 2007, because Akiva Goldsman 's script still needed work, and he was on strike with the Writers Guild of America. So, production of the movie had to be postponed. The production had to build a scale replica of St. Peter's Square since Vatican officers banned the movie from being filmed in its grounds. Although the novel upon which this film is based is set before the events of the novel The Da Vinci Code, the film has been written as a sequel to follow after events in The Da Vinci Code (2006). Naomi Watts was originally cast as Vittoria. Alfred Molina who played Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Code (2006) did the voice over for this movie's first trailer. Thure Lindhardt was nearly cast as Silas in The Da Vinci Code (2006). Ron Howard liked his audition so much that he offered him the role of Chartrand in this movie.

Is That You, God? Tom Hanks returns as Dan Brown's symbologist Robert Langdon in his first adventure Angels & Demons, which Hollywood decided to make after The Da Vinci Code , given the latter's more controversial subject striking a raw nerve on the faith itself. The Catholic Church was up in arms over the first film, but seemingly nonchalant about this one. And it's not hard to see why, considering Ron Howard had opted to do a flat-out action piece that serves as a great tourism video of Rome and Vatican City, and would probably boost visitor numbers given the many beautiful on-location scenes, save for St Peter's Square and Basilica which was a scaled model used. So I guess with the bulk of the budget going toward the sets, the ensemble cast had to be correspondingly scaled down. Ayelet Zurer tried to step into the female void left by Audrey Tautou, but given Tautou's character then having a lot more stake in the earlier film , Zurer's scientist...