Director accuses Vatican of trying to impede movie filming
May 5, 2009
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Ron Howard, the director of Angels & Demons, a new film starring Tom Hanks that has just premiered in Rome, has said that the Vatican tried to hamper the filming of the movie.
The film is the sequel to the highly-successful adaptation of the Dan Brown book “The Da Vinci Code” and also features Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon, this time rescuing four Vatican Cardinals who had been kidnapped.
Howard accused the Vatican of exerting its authority “through back channels” to prevent the crew from filming in the vicinity of certain churches.
A spokesman for the Vatican called Howard’s claims nothing more than a publicity stunt.
During a news conference, Howard commented: “When you come to film in Rome, the official statement to you is that the Vatican has no influence.”
He added: “Everything progressed very smoothly, but unofficially a couple of days before we were to start filming in several of our locations, it was explained to us that through back channels and so forth that the Vatican had exerted some influence.”
The Rome diocese confirmed that it barred producers from filming inside two of its churches last summer because the content of the film was not in line with the views of the Catholic Church.
Howard also claimed that the Vatican was responsible for the cancellation of an event in Rome celebrating the film’s premiere.
“There was supposed to be a reception or screening here in Rome that had been approved and I suppose that the Vatican had some influence over that,” Howard noted.
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