Distributors
Columbia Pictures (USA)
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (2006) (Singapore) (theatrical)
Columbia TriStar Films (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
Falcon (2006) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
Sony Pictures Releasing (2006) (Germany) (theatrical)
Sony Pictures Releasing (2006) (Singapore) (theatrical)

Special Effects
The Moving Picture Company (MPC)

Other Companies
Lee Lighting Ltd. ... lighting
Mad Dog Casting ... extras casting

Genre
Mystery / Drama / Thriller

Plot Summary
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ('Tom Hanks') receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.

Hanks Faces 'Da Vinci Code' Protestors
Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks was faced by protestors including nuns, as he began filming scenes for the upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code in England yesterday. The demonstration took place outside Lincoln Cathedral, which is doubling for London's Westminster Abbey, where religious leaders only agreed to allow filming after the movie's producers made a $180,000 donation. Hanks, who will only be in Lincoln for two days, was chauffeur-driven the short distance from his five star hotel to the historic location - and he briefly waved at a small gathering of fans, who vied with demonstrators for his attention, before disappearing inside. The cathedral's Dean, The Very Reverend Alec Knight, has dismissed Brown's 20 million-selling book as "a load of old tosh", but he was unable to turn down the offer which gives priceless publicity to his spiritual home. However, demonstrators outside the cathedral have taken exception to Brown's questioning of their religious beliefs, and were led in a 12 hour prayer vigil by Catholic nun Sister Mary Michael. The 61-year-old says, "I just don't think it is right that they are filming this story here. I know the Bishop and Dean argue that it is fiction - and it might even be brilliant fiction - but it is against the very essence of what we believe."

Nun Prays at Site of 'Da Vinci Code' Conference
In what might well become the harbinger of protests that could come to plague the film version of The Da Vinci Code when it is released, a Roman Catholic nun knelt in prayer for 12 hours outside Lincoln Cathedral in Eastern England, where the film is currently being shot. Although she acknowledged that she had not read the controversial thriller by Dan Brown, she said that she had heard about its contents and about how it argues the case that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a female child with her. She called the theory "heresy" and said, "I'm interested in what God thinks, rather than what the film crew think. When I'm judged by almighty God, as all human beings, I'll be entitled to say that I have done my best."

McKellen Slams Church's Stance Against 'Da Vinci Code'
British actor Ian McKellen has slammed the leaders of the Catholic Church for urging people not to read Dan Brown's controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. While the book has proved hugely popular internationally, the Vatican's reaction to the way its religion is depicted by Brown has been far from positive. But McKellen, who recently finished filming a movie version of the book with Tom Hanks, brands the church's stance against the novel "pathetic". He says, "People are always interested in mystery, but when it's a mystery that suggests that a major influence on all our lives - the Catholic Church - has perhaps been misleading us all this time, then it becomes spectacularly sensational. The idea that it shouldn't be read, which I think is the official Vatican line, is pretty pathetic."

'Da Vinci Code' Writer Triumphs in Court
The Da Vince Code author Dan Brown triumphed in a New York City court on Friday, when a judge ruled his best-selling novel had not plagiarized another writer's work. Lewis Perdue claimed Brown had used sections from two of his novels - 1983's The Da Vinci Legacy and 2000's Daughter Of God - in The Da Vinci Code, and sought $150 million in damages as well as an injunction blocking further distribution of Brown's book and the forthcoming movie adaptation. Judge George Daniels, presiding at New York District Court, ruled that any similarity between the works of fiction was based on "unprotectable ideas". Judge Daniels told the court, "A reasonable average lay observer would not conclude that The Da Vinci Code is substantially similar to Daughter of God. Any slightly similar elements are on the level of generalized or otherwise unprotectable ideas." Following the ruling, Perdue insisted he would appeal against the decision: "I have no doubt that we're going to see this overturned on appeal because there have been copyright infringement cases where the parties had less to go on than we have and they were able to have their cases overturned."

'Code' Can't Attract Extras, Says Newspaper
Producers of the film version of The Da Vinci Code are having a difficult time rounding up extras to appear in a scene being shot in Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England. The Cathedral is substituting for Westminster Abbey in the production after the Abbey refused to allow filming to take place there. In email messages sent to major employers in the area, casting director Ilenka Jelowicki said, "We are working on an American feature film shooting in Lincoln in August. We have been casting in Lincoln but we are still desperately looking for men aged 40 and over to take part." However the Lincolnshire Echo quoted one local as saying, "Most of us are working and probably don't have time for auditions like this," he said. "It's also school holiday time and family men will be off with their children. Add to that the embarrassment factor and you're not going to get many of us. I guess some people might view it as a bit of an unmanly thing to do. But I'd love it -- it would be a fascinating experience." The item appeared even as the New York Times was reporting that Sony "has dropped a scrim of secrecy" over the production. "The script has been closely controlled. Outsiders have been banned from the set. And those associated with the film have had to sign confidentiality agreements."

Scottish Church Opens Its Doors to 'Da Vinci Code' Producers
Although several churches featured in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code have shut their doors to the producers of a movie version of the book, Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh has not. The church, which figures in the climax of the book, has reached an agreement with the producers to permit both interior and exterior filming there in September. The BBC has indicated that location fees alone could generate $175,000 for the church. However, it noted, Dr. Andrew Sinclair, a descendent of the chapel's founders and a historian, reportedly has objected to the chapel's being used for filming a story that he regards as "preposterous." (The book poses the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and sired children.) Currently the chapel is undergoing renovation and is covered with a canopy. Rosslyn Chapel director Stuart Beattie told the Scotsman newspaper, "We could not take it down for the filming - absolutely not. I am sure that computers and airbrushing are possible. We may well be enamored with the film industry, but not to the extent that we would want to take the canopy down for them."

Religious Groups Show Their Muscle in Hollywood
The astounding success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ last year has helped make Hollywood studios keenly aware of the power of Christian conservatives and has altered many of the images and dialogue presented in current movies, the New York Times indicated today (Monday). The newspaper noted that in the recent Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a crucifix was hung on a rearview mirror in a chase sequence and the stars at one point wore jackets reading "Jesus Rocks." On the other hand, actor Peter Sarsgaard recently disclosed that the epithet "Jesus" was stricken from his dialogue in the Disney movie Flightplan and replaced with the word "shoot." Sarsgaard remarked, "That [word] isn't as good." The Times reported that several experts on marketing to Christian families have been hired by studios recently, including one to work on Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia and another to work on Sony's The Da Vinci Code (which already has drawn numerous protests from some Catholic groups).

Sony unveils latest film entries
AMSTERDAM -- Sony was front and center at Cinema Expo on Thursday as the market wrapped with a presentation from Sony Pictures Releasing International senior executive vp Mark Zucker. Zucker unveiled a showreel that included 13 trailers and covered pictures from Columbia TriStar, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures. In an interview, Zucker said one of the most important releases for Sony in the coming months will be the studio's first wholly produced animation entry, Open Season, about an unlikely friendship between a bear and a deer during hunting season. He said the studio plans to follow it up with Surf's Up in 2007 and that the animation unit will "produce two animated features a year after that." Zucker and his team also brought in Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo stars Rob Schneider and Eddie Griffin to show some extended clips from the upcoming sequel to Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo. SPRI also showed the latest teaser trailer for The Da Vinci Code and extended action sequences from Stealth, before inviting everyone to a screening of Bewitched, followed by the event's closing-night party.

Sony unveils animated entries
AMSTERDAM -- Sony's move into animation via its newly established animation division was one of the highlights of the last day of Cinema Expo here as Sony Pictures Releasing International senior executive vp Mark Zucker unveiled a showreel that included 13 trailers and covered pictures from Columbia TriStar, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures. Zucker, in an interview, said one of the most important releases for Sony in the coming months will be the studio's first wholly produced animation entry, Open Season, about an unlikely friendship between a bear and a deer during hunting season. He said the studio plans to follow it up with Surf's Up in 2007 and that the animation unit will "produce two animated features a year after that." Zucker and his team also brought in Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo stars Rob Schneider and Eddie Griffin to show some extended clips from the upcoming sequel to Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo. SPRI also showed the latest teaser trailer for The Da Vinci Code and extended action sequences from Stealth, before inviting everyone to a screening of Bewitched, followed by the event's closing-night party.

'Da Vinci Code' Not Welcome at Westminster Abbey
Church officials in London have barred the producers of The Da Vinci Code from shooting scenes in Westminster Abbey after denouncing the book, which the film will be based on, as "theologically unsound." Director Ron Howard and his cast have already been given permission to shoot scenes inside Paris, France's Louvre art gallery and England's Lincoln Cathedral, but the doors to the London landmark won't be opened for them. Dan Brown's controversial book has already been condemned by the Vatican and Anglican Church leaders for distorting the Christian message. The bestselling mystery novel suggests Jesus was married to biblical prostitute Mary Magdalene and had children with her. In a statement released by Abbey officials, they maintain, "Although a real page turner, The Da Vinci Code is theologically unsound and we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book. It would therefore be inappropriate to film scenes from the book here."

Westminster Abbey Won't Allow Filming of 'Da Vinci Code'
Officials of Westminster Abbey have refused to permit Ron Howard to film part of the movie version of The Da Vinci Code in London's Westminster Abbey. In a statement, the Abbey said, "We cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book -- nor its views of Christianity and the New Testament." The book has also been roundly condemned by members of the Catholic Church. Howard told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that he plans to use Lincoln Cathedral in Eastern England as a stand-in. The Abbey is regarded as an independent church within the Church of England, owing no allegiance to any diocese.

McKellen and Molina Join 'The Da Vinci Code'
British actors Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina have been added to the cast of the anticipated screen adaptation of Dan Brown's controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. The movie, which will be directed by Ron Howard, features Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks in the lead role as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Molina will portray Bishop Arigarosa, who takes a strong interest in the Holy Grail-pursuing efforts of Langdon and cryptographer Sophie Neveu, played by Audrey Tautou. McKellen takes on the role of wealthy eccentric Sir Teabing, who also has an interest in tracking down the Holy Grail.

Doctor Who To Play 'Da Vinci Code' Thug?
British actor Christopher Eccleston has wasted no time in finding his next big project after giving up on TV series Doctor Who after one season - he's reportedly in talks to play the villain of The Da Vinci Code. The Gone In 60 Seconds star is said to be the new favorite to play killer monk Silas in director Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling book, according to website Digitalspy.Com. Jim Carrey was also rumored to be in talks for the role of the monk, who is a fearsome albino in the story. The Da Vinci Code, which will star Tom Hanks, Jean Reno and Audrey Tautou, begins filming in June.

'Da Vinci Code' Producers Likely to Be Hit by Catholic Church
Portending problems for the producers of the film version of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, a Catholic cardinal on Wednesday said that the book's success demonstrates "a great anti-Catholic prejudice." Interviewed on Vatican Radio, Genoa Cardinal Tarciscio Bertone said that the book was "full of lies" about the founders of the Catholic faith and added: "My appeal is: Don't read and don't buy" the book. The film version, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, is due to start production in May.

Tautou To Play 'Da Vinci' Role?
French film star Audrey Tautou is thrilled she's won the lead role in the upcoming film adaptation of US author Dan Brown's best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code. The popular Amelie star, who is currently on screens in A Very Long Engagement, will play Sophie Neveu - the young French cryptologist assisting Professor Robert Langdon - played by Tom Hanks - in his investigation. The Professional actor Jean Reno will also star, playing detective Bezu Fache. Filming is due to start later this year - with a predicted cinema release of May 2006.

France to Filmmakers: The Louvre Is Not a Movie Set
A French official indicated Friday that the film version of The Da Vinci Code, in which numerous key scenes take place in the Louvre museum in Paris could "in principle" be shot at the museum itself, but only if the shooting takes place at night or on Tuesdays when it is closed to the public. Museum director Henri Loyrette, appearing on France-Inter Radio remarked that "The Louvre is not a movie set. It is a place that receives an average of 20,000 visitors a day." The implication of his remarks was that the filmmakers could receive permission to film at the museum provided that they not interfere with normal access to its galleries by visitors.

Columbia's latest 'Code' name: Tautou
Audrey Tautou is ready to make her American film debut. The French actress, starring in A Very Long Engagement and best known for playing the title role in Amelie, is in negotiations to star opposite Tom Hanks in Columbia Pictures' The Da Vinci Code. Ron Howard is directing the screen adaptation of the Dan Brown best seller. Tautou would play French cryptologist Sophie Neveu. It is her grandfather's murder in the Louvre that brings her and a Harvard professor (Hanks) together to search for his killer as they also try to unravel a secret that involves the foundation of Christianity. Jean Reno also is on board, playing Detective Bezu Fache. Brian Grazer and John Calley are producing. Production is scheduled to begin in mid-2005 with an eye for a May 19, 2006, release. Matt Tolmach and Andrea Giannetti are overseeing for the studio. Tautou's other major English-language film was 2002's Dirty Pretty Things. She is repped by Paris-based ArtMedia.

Albinos Want To White-Out Killer from 'Da Vinci' Script
An organization representing albinos has registered its opposition to portraying a killer in the film version of The Da Vinci Code as an albino (which is the way he is represented in the Dan Brown novel). "[Producer/director] Ron Howard and Imagine [Films Entertainment, which is producing the movie] can make a big difference for people with albinism by continuing the trend away from a hack device if they adjust the Silas character to not be an evil albino" said Mike McGowan, president of the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation (NOAH). "Over the years the stereotyping and misinformation foisted on the albinism community by filmmakers who don't take the time to learn the facts about albinism does real harm to real people," he added.

Reno cops to 'Da Vinci' role
French film star Jean Reno has joined Tom Hanks in Columbia Pictures' upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code. Reno will play gruff detective Bezu Fache to Hanks' famed symbologist Robert Langdon in the film version of the novel that has dominated the best seller list for almost two years. Scheduled to begin production in 2005 for a May 19, 2006 release, The Da Vinci Code will be directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman. Reno, who stars opposite Steve Martin in the soon-to-be-released remake of The Pink Panther, has appeared in numerous Hollywood films including Mission: Impossible, Ronin, the 1998 remake of Godzilla and such French films as Subway, The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita and Les Visiteurs. Reno is represented by ICM, Amy Guenther at Gateway Management Partners and attorney Peter Nichols.

Movie Bosses Warned To Accurately Portray Albinism
Movie director Ron Howard is being advised to tread carefully when filming the movie adaptation of novel The Da Vinci Code this year, by not permitting albino stereotypes. The National Organization For Albinism And Hypopigmentation (NOAH) has asked film bosses to make sure the upcoming movie doesn't portray its albino character as a red-eyed psychopath. NOAH president Mike McGowan says, "One huge problem with (author Dan Brown's book) The Da Vinci Code is how (the character of) Silas is described with red eyes. That's a myth. Most often in people with albinism the eyes are light blue or even hazel. Ron Howard can make a big difference for people with albinism by continuing the trend away from a hack device if they adjust the Silas character to not be an evil albino. Over the years the stereotyping and misinformation foisted on the albinism community by film-makers does real harm to real people." Tom Hanks has signed up to star in The Da Vinci Code, which is slated for a mid-2006 release.

'Code' key for Nat Geo ratings high
The DaVinci Code phenomenon has worked its magic for the National Geographic Channel. Nat Geo TV hit all-time high ratings in primetime Sunday as the premiere of its two-hour documentary special Unlocking DaVinci's Code: The Full Story averaged 1.3 million viewers. That marked the first time the 5-year-old channel has cracked the 1 million-viewer mark in primetime. In the adults 25-54 demo, the special averaged a 1.2 rating, a 500% increase over the channel's average in that demo in recent weeks.

Delpy: "Da Vinci Role Is Mine"
French actress Julie Delpy has set her sights on the role of cryptologist Sophie Neveu in the forthcoming movie adaptation of best-selling book The Da Vinci Code. The Before Sunset star is a huge fan of Dan Brown's novel and is desperate for director Ron Howard to cast her opposite Tom Hanks in the mystery thriller. An American Werewolf in Paris and The Passion of Ayn Rand star Delpy enthuses, "The character is French, in her thirties and has a shade of red in her hair. I can become a redhead."

Col sets date to break out 'Da Vinci Code'
Columbia Pictures' film adaptation of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code, will roll out day-and-date worldwide on May 19, 2006, the studio announced Tuesday. It also confirmed that Tom Hanks will play the leading role of symbologist Robert Langdon, who discovers the meaning of the Holy Grail during the course of the life-threatening thriller (HR 11/15). The Da Vinci Code will be directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman. Production will begin next year in the United States and Europe.

Hanks To Star in 'The Da Vinci Code'
Ending rampant speculation and betting on the Internet over who will play Harvard professor Robert Langdon in the movie adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, Sony's Columbia Pictures announced Tuesday that it had signed Tom Hanks for the role. Hanks' hiring was originally disclosed in last week's edition of Newsweek, but was not confirmed by the studio. Newsweek quoted producer-director Ron Howard as saying, "Tom is an exciting actor to watch thinking. ... We probably don't need his status from a box-office standpoint [the book has spent 87 weeks atop the New York Times'best-seller list] but he gives Langdon instant legitimacy."

Hanks To Solve 'The Da Vinci Code'?
Tom Hanks is leading the way to star in the big screen adaptation of bestselling drama novel The Da Vinci Code. According to trade paper Hollywood Reporter, Hanks is the favorite to land the lead role of art historian Professor Robert Langdon in the big screen take of Dan Brown's book. The Oscar-winning actor is reportedly already in talks with Columbia Pictures studio bosses and director Ron Howard about the coveted role. In Brown's book, Langdon is the man who cracks the mystery of the renowned Holy Grail. The film is expected to begin shooting next year.

Hanks cracks 'Da Vinci' cast
If a deal can be successfully completed, Tom Hanks is expected to step into the scholarly shoes of Robert Langdon, the professor who unravels the mystery of the Holy Grail in the film version of Dan Brown's phenomenally successful novel The Da Vinci Code. Hanks has emerged as director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer's top choice for the lead role in the film, which Columbia Pictures hopes to begin shooting next year. And talks have begun for the actor to join the project.

Hanks puts on thinking cap for 'Da Vinci'
If a deal can be successfully completed, Tom Hanks is expected to step into the scholarly shoes of Robert Langdon, the professor who unravels the mystery of the Holy Grail in the film version of Dan Brown's phenomenally successful novel The Da Vinci Code. Hanks has emerged as director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer's top choice for the lead role in the film, which Columbia Pictures hopes to begin shooting next year. And talks have begun for the actor to join the project.

Crowe, Clooney, Hanks, and Jackman Battle for Role
Hollywood hunks Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Tom Hanks and Hugh Jackman are battling for the lead role in movie adaptation of best-seller The Da Vinci Code. The film's director, Ron Howard will choose which actor would best suit the role of Robert Langdon, who discovers clues in Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings, which lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for 2000 years. The novel's author, Dan Brown is currently suing Lewis Perdue, who claims his work has been plagiarized and is planning a rival Da Vinci film with reality TV king Mark Burnett.

Howard, Goldsman, Grazer Plan to Crack 'DaVinci Code'
The Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind is about to get even more cerebral, as Variety reports that director Ron Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and producer Brian Grazer are reteaming for Sony's The DaVinci Code, based on Dan Brown's runaway bestseller. The suspense tale of a hunky academic and a sexy cryptographer who race against the clock to unravel a mystery hidden in the works of Leonardo DaVinci is expected to be Howard's next project after Cinderella Man. Goldsman will adapt the book, and Grazer will produce; no casting has yet been set. Author Brown recently sold the rights to The DaVinci Code and his other books to Sony for over $6 million.

Sony Cracks 'Da Vinci Code'
Sony has finally cracked the code – The Da Vinci Code, that is. Variety reports that the studio has snapped up the rights to Dan Brown's number one bestseller about an ancient conspiracy involving DaVinci and religious symbolism with an eye towards making it the first in a series of films. Code's protagonist, Robert Langdon, was the subject of a previous novel, and the center of Brown's next book; Sony's deal includes both those properties as well. Word has it Sony paid a "substantial" seven figure sum for the books.

Directed by
Ron Howard

Writers
Dan Brown Novel
Akiva Goldsman Screenplay

Producers
Dan Brown ... executive producer
John Calley ... producer
Brian Grazer ... producer
Todd Hallowell ... executive producer
Kathleen McGill ... co-producer
Louisa Velis ... co-producer

Cast - in credits order
Tom Hanks ... Robert Langdon
Audrey Tautou ... Sophie Neveu
Ian McKellen ... Sir Leigh Teabing
Alfred Molina ... Bishop Aringarosa
Jean Reno ... Bezu Fache
Other credited cast listed alphabetically
Paul Bettany ... Silas
Etienne Chicot ... Opus Dei Member
Seth Gabel
Jean-Pierre Marielle ... Jacques Sauniere
Jürgen Prochnow

Original Music
Hans Zimmer

Cinematographers
Salvatore Totino

Editors
Daniel P. Hanley

Casting Directors
Janet Hirshenson
John Hubbard
Jane Jenkins

Production Designers
Allan Cameron

Art Directors
Giles Masters

Set Decorators
Richard Roberts

Costume Designers
Daniel Orlandi

Production Managers
Nigel Gostelow ... unit production manager
Kathleen McGill ... unit production manager
Suzie F. Wiesmann ... production manager

Second Unit Directors or Assistant Directors
Mathey-Dreyfus Arnaud ... third assistant director: second unit Paris
William M. Connor ... first assistant director
Marie Rolindes ... third assistant director: second unit

Art Department
David Balfour ... property master
Ray Barrett ... construction manager
Alex Cameron ... assistant art director
Leonardo Da Vinci ... painter: Mona Lisa
Andrew Dyer ... stage hand
Jack Dyer ... construction buyer
James Gemmill ... scenic artist
Christopher Glass ... storyboard artist
Kevin Harris ... assistant construction manager
Patricia Johnson ... assistant art director
Annushka Russell ... art department assistant
Anna Skrein ... art department co-ordinator
Martin Smeaton ... head sculptor
Dorrie Young ... set decorating assistant

Sound Department
Barry O'Sullivan ... boom operator
Ivan Sharrock ... production sound mixer

Special Effects Department
Matthew G. Armstrong ... special effects assistant
Jess Lewington ... special effects buyer
Jess Lewington ... special effects coordinator

Stunts
Peter Pedrero ... utility stunts
Paul Shapcott ... stunt double

Miscellaneous Crew
Rene Adefarasin ... second assistant camera: "a" camera
Kirsten Anderson ... first assistant accountant
Fiona Baldwin ... production runner
Arnaud Boussac ... assistant location manager
Jeremy Braben ... aerial director of photography
Sam Breckman ... location manager
Diarmuid Coghlan ... accounting assistant
Jim DeMarco ... first assistant accountant
Sam Engelen ... assistant: Akiva Goldsman
Yannick Fauchier ... set production assistant
Michael Goosen ... financial controller
Dan Grace ... costume supervisor
Claudia Kalindjian ... unit publicist
Deborah Leakey ... first assistant accountant
Michelle Lewitt ... casting associate
Frédéric North ... aerial coordinator
Anji Oliver ... assistant coordinator
Eric-Sebastien Ordonez ... production assistant
Justin Owen ... computer and video supervisor: Useful Companies
Randee Price ... casting assistant
David Sinfield ... electrician
Taylor Singer ... assistant to producer
Simon Staines ... creative supervisor: Useful Companies
Sara-Jane Valentine ... computer and video coordinator: Useful Companies
Margaret Whitman ... assistant to director
Andrew Zack ... executive assistant: Hans Zimmer

Trivia
24 creator Joel Surnow thought that "The DaVinci Code" would provide a great storyline for the show's third season. Surnow asked his boss, producer Brian Grazer about acquiring the film rights to the book. Author Dan Brown had no intention of his book being adapted for a TV show, and rejected their bid. Months later, Sony Pictures paid $6 million for the book and hired Grazer as producer.

France's Culture Ministry has granted permission for the film crew to film inside the Louvre.

Hans Zimmer replaced James Horner (long time collaborator with Ron Howard), while Horner took the offer to compose the music for The New World, when Zimmer couldn't accept it, because of scheduling conflicts.

Officials from Britain's Westminster Abbey refused to allow filming to take place in the Abbey, claiming that the book is "theologically unsound". Instead, the filming will take place at Lincoln Cathedral in eastern England.

'Russell Crowe' was considered for the role of Robert Langdon.

Julie Delpy and Kate Beckinsale were two of the original people thought of for the role of Sophie.

Sophie Marceau, Audrey Tautou, Virginie Ledoyen, Judith Godrèche, and Linda Hardy were auditioned for the role of Sophie Neveu. Against the odds, Audrey Tautou was offered the part