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 mathematical message written beside his body and a pentagram drawn on his chest in his own blood. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's "The Templar Revelation" (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. "The Da Vinci Code" provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail