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 you need to check your meds." While interviewing Umberto Eco in a 2008 issue of "The Paris Review", Lila Azam Zanganeh characterized "The Da Vinci Code" as "a bizarre little offshoot" of Eco's novel, "Foucault’s Pendulum". In response, Eco remarked, "Dan Brown is a character from "Foucault's Pendulum"! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist." The book appeared on a 2010 list of 101 best books ever written, which