Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion

By Linda Sunshine and Dan Brown

Book Overview

Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion is the only official book hailing the extraordinary filmmakers at the heart of this thought-provoking and totally unorthodox thriller. Reuniting Academy Award(R) winners Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Tom Hanks, this suspense-filled movie, based on Dan Brown's ticking-bomb novel, sprints through crypts, catacombs, and cathedrals to decipher clues prophesying the mutilation of cardinals with mysterious symbols.

The story of how this movie was created is told here through the voices of the filmmakers, who explain the challenges of re-creating exact replicas of some of the world's most exquisite sites, including the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square, and Piazza Navona with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, among others.

This lavishly illustrated book brims with more than 270 color photographs, including archival images, storyboard art, period paintings, and digital production art; insider's information about the creative process behind the production and scenic design, costumes, set decorations, paintings, sculptures, and props created for the movie by artisans in London, Italy, and Los Angeles; interviews with cast and crew members; a foreword by Dan Brown; and introductions by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Todd Hallowell.

Of his firsthand experience on the set of Angels & Demons, Dan Brown writes, "I was privileged to watch some of moviemaking's noblest soldiers as they did daily battle and conquered Herculean forces." Those forces are brought to life in this book that puts you right there on location in Rome, London, and Los Angeles with the novelist and the filmmakers of Angels & Demons.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557048339
• ISBN13: 9781557048332
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

A fine addition to any movie buff's collection

Any fan of the movie "Angels & Demons" will find "Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion" a treasury, packed with quotes from all the principal filmmakers, concept sketches, drawings, period paintings, color photos and more. With its many vivid images and insights, "Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion" will prove a 'must' for both film libraries and library patrons with special interest in the movie.

Amazing Illustrated Movie Companion!

This book is nothing less than amazing! Every detail from the motivation behind lighting and dialogue, to descriptions of scenery and characters is here. Because this is a controversial story, the Catholic Church refused to allow ANGELS AND DEMONS to be filmed on location. Can't blame them. But the extreme extent to which the producer, Ron Howard, went to make this movie realistic on a budget is nothing less than amazing! From creating "marble" floors out of photocopies of real marble, forcing the stars to wear booties over their shoes, to reproducing the massive sculptures in the Vatican, it is all here. Many photos overwhelm the reader with the actual scope of the project!