Angels & Demons (film) with author Dan Brown. In May 2006, following the release of the 2006 film adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code", Sony Pictures hired screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the film adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code", to adapt "Angels & Demons". Filming was originally to begin in February 2008 and was originally going to be released on December 19, 2008, but because of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the film was pushed back for May 15, 2009. David Koepp rewrote the script before shooting began. Director Ron Howard chose to treat "Angels & Demons" as a sequel to
Criticism of The Da Vinci Code her membership of the conservative Opus Dei organization which features in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code"." The novel asserts that Mary Magdalene was of the Tribe of Benjamin, but historians dispute this claim, and there is no mention of this in the Bible or in other ancient sources. Sandra Miesel and Carl E. Olson, writing in their 2004 book, "The Da Vinci Hoax", state the fact that Magdala was located in northern Israel, whereas the tribe of Benjamin resided in the south. In Chapter 58 it is suggested that the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene created a