The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Producers of the soon to be released movie Angels & Demons found themselves with a big setback when they were ready to start shooting the movie. The Vatican not only forbid the move to be shot within the vatican city but ban movie producers from shooting in any other church or exterior of a church. According to Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, head of the Vatican’s Prefecture for Economic Affairs, he said that Brown’s books were blasphemous and “turned the Gospels upside down.” while father Marco Fibbi, who is the spokesman for the diocese of Rome, added: “Normally we read the script, but this time it was not necessary. The name Dan Brown was enough.”

In order to overcome this serious difficulty when filming the sequel movie of the prequel book of The DaVinci code the team had to disguise themselves as simple tourists to be able to take photos of the interiors of the Vatican and churches where the novel take place.

Ron Howard, director of both The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons said “We didn’t shoot at the Vatican officially. But cameras can be made really small,” this seems to have infuriated The Vatican representatives who see Dan Brown’s work as blaspemous.

Special eefics supervisor says that in order to overcome the Vatican’s ban a the difficulties that it brought to the production they had to desguise themselves in order to do the photo surveys “The ban on filming put us in serious difficulty because we were not able to carry out the photographic surveys necessary to reconstruct the setting,..So for weeks we sent a team of people who mixed with tourists and took thousands of photos and video footage.”

Angels & Demons is the prequel of the successful film The DaVinci code based on the same book by Dan Bron

Dan Brown’s next book The Lost Symbol will be published later this year after years of delays and changes of title.