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.
The Da Vinci Code Geoffrey Pullum and others posted several entries critical of Dan Brown's writing, at Language Log, calling Brown one of the "worst prose stylists in the history of literature" and saying Brown's "writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad". Roger Ebert described it as a "potboiler written with little grace and style", although he said it did "supply an intriguing plot". In his review of the film "National Treasure", whose plot also involves ancient conspiracies and treasure hunts, he wrote: "I should read a potboiler like "The Da Vinci Code" every once in a while,