Angels & Demons (film) co-starring Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan and Sidse Babett Knudsen. Angels & Demons (film) Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, based on Dan Brown's novel of the same title. It is the sequel to the 2006 film "The Da Vinci Code", also directed by Howard, and the second installment in the "Robert Langdon" film series. The novel was published first and "The Da Vinci Code" novel followed it. Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.
Criticism of The Da Vinci Code Criticism of The Da Vinci Code "The Da Vinci Code", a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Many of the complaints centered on the book's speculations and misrepresentations of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Catholic Church. Additional criticisms were directed towards the book's inaccurate descriptions of European art, history, architecture, and geography. Charges of copyright infringement were also leveled by the novelist Lewis Perdue and by the authors of the 1982 book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", which puts forward the hypothesis that the historical