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
The Da Vinci Code to her life. The real meaning of the last message is that the Grail is buried beneath the small pyramid directly below the "La Pyramide Inversée", the inverted glass pyramid of the Louvre. It also lies beneath the "Rose Line," an allusion to "Rosslyn." Langdon figures out this final piece to the puzzle; he follows the Rose Line to "La Pyramide Inversée", where he kneels before the hidden sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene, as the Templar knights did before him. "The Da Vinci Code" was a major success in 2003 and was outsold only by J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and