Escorted by two Vatican police officers, they find the assassin attempting to drown Cardinal Baggia (Marc Fiorini) in the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi. The assassin appears, killing everyone except Langdon, before escaping.Īfter consulting a map of Rome, Langdon identifies the final altar as Piazza Navona's Four Rivers sculpture. After returning to the Archives for further research, Langdon, Olivetti, and Vincenzi eventually identify the Santa Maria della Vittoria as the altar of fire, where they find Cardinal Guidera burning to death, branded with "Fire". This is confirmed when McKenna and Vetra secretly inspect the body in the Vatican necropolis. After reading a threatening note left on Lamassé's body, Vetra comes to suspect that Pius XVI did not die of a stroke as believed, but was actually murdered with an overdose of tinzaparin, which he had been secretly taking for his thrombophlebitis. Upon reaching it, they find Cardinal Lamassé mortally wounded, his lungs punctured and his chest branded with the ambigram "Air".
Though they rush to the chapel, accompanied by Ernesto Olivetti ( Pierfrancesco Favino) and Claudio Vincenzi ( David Pasquesi) of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City, they are too late to save Cardinal Ebner, who is found dead, having suffocated on a mouthful of dirt and branded with the ambigrammatic word "Earth".įollowing the clue left by a Bernini statue at the Chigi Chapel, Langdon discovers the second altar to be a Bernini-created sculpture in St. Initially believing it to be at the Pantheon, they eventually discover it to be the Chigi Chapel. Vetra examine Galileo Galilei's banned book, finding clues to the first altar. McKenna gives Langdon access to the Vatican Secret Archives to research the altars, against the wishes of Commander Richter ( Stellan Skarsgård), head of the Swiss Guard. After listening to the assassin's threat, he deduces that the four cardinals will be murdered on the four altars of the "Path of Illumination", in locations relevant to the classical elements.
Having attracted the Church’s attention after searching for the Priory of Sion in Paris and London, American symbologist Professor Robert Langdon ( Tom Hanks) is brought to the Vatican to help. to midnight, when the stolen antimatter will explode and destroy the city, hidden somewhere within. He sends the Vatican a warning, claiming he will murder each of the cardinals from 8 p.m. Shortly thereafter, four of the preferiti, the favored candidates to be elected pope, are kidnapped by a man claiming to represent the Illuminati. As Vetra goes to evaluate the experiment, she discovers that Silvano has been murdered, and one of the canisters was stolen. Vittoria Vetra ( Ayelet Zurer) create three canisters of antimatter. Meanwhile, at CERN, scientists Father Silvano Bentivoglio and Dr. Father Patrick McKenna ( Ewan McGregor), the camerlengo, takes temporary control of the Vatican during the sede vacante period. The Catholic Church mourns the sudden death of Pope Pius XVI, and prepares for the papal conclave to elect his successor in Vatican City. A sequel, titled Inferno, was released on October 28, 2016.
The film grossed $485 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who considered it an improvement over its predecessor. The film, even though an adaptation from the book Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, was different from the book in some scenes. Producer Brian Grazer, composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman also return, with David Koepp coming on board to help the latter. Vittoria Vetra, a CERN scientist joining Langdon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon, while Ayelet Zurer stars as Dr. Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. However, the novel version was published first and acts as a prequel to The Da Vinci Code novel.
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. 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 2000 novel of the same title.
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