Well, so long as screenwriter David Koepp doesn’t try to pen another Indiana Jones flick, he might actually do okay. Take his latest writing effort for example: Angels & Demons, the adaptation of Dan Brown’s controversial novel of the same name. Originally, Angels & Demons’ script was scribbled out by Akiva Goldsman — who also wrote the Hollywood version of Brown’s other controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code.
Now, as anyone who read The Da Vinci Code and then saw director Ron Howard’s movie can tell you: Akiva Goldsman is a very wretched writer. If you need further proof, copies of his epically bad Batman & Robin, Lost In Space, and I, Robot are available in bargain bins in just about every video store known to man. Fortunately, when there was that whole Writers’ Strike thingy in 2007 and 2008, Akiva Goldsman took a vacation from writing Ron Howard’s big-screen version of Angels & Demons — to wit, Koepp stepped in.
And the change was a good one: Angels & Demons is light-years away from being as bad as The Da Vinci Code. That said, it‘s still not Class-A movie viewing material.
The pope is dead. Soon, the Cardinals of the Catholic Church will choose a replacement. But the decision won’t be easy, especially as seeing a vial of highly destructive antimatter stuff has been stolen, and the top four picks for the new pope have been kidnapped. Into this mix, professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is called in by the Church, despite the fact that they basically hate him for that whole “decoding Da Vinci” thing. Soon, Langdon and the femme de la film — a scientist named Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) — are hot on the trail of a group calling themselves The Illuminati, who have threatened to wipe out all of Vatican City with the antimatter doohickey. Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, and Armin Mueller-Stahl co-star as some of the film’s many potential villains.
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1 - El Bicho
you left off A Beautiful Mind and the appropriately titled A Time to Kill off that hack's resume