Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning director and writer of
A Beautiful Mind, reunite to bring Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the
most popular and controversial novels of our time, to the big screen with a cast
headed by two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Sir
Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina.
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (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. While working to solve 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 – yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu
(Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion – an
actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli,
Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris,
London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who
seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the
labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret – and an explosive
historical truth – will be lost forever!