Angels & Demons (film)
Angels amp Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, based on Dan Browns novel of the same name. It is the sequel to the 2006 film, The Da Vinci Code, also directed by Howard. The novel was published first and The Da Vinci Code followed it. Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.
Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio and Dr. Vittoria Vetra, the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN initiates the Large Hadron Collider and creates three vials of antimatter particles larger than any that have ever been produced before. Almost immediately, Father Silvano is killed and one of the vials of antimatter goes missing. At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church is mourning the sudden death of Pope Pius XVI in Rome and prepares for the papal conclave to elect the next Pope. The Camerlengo Patrick McKenna assumes temporary control of the Vatican. The Illuminati kidnap four of the preferiti the favourite cardinals to be elected pope before the conclave enters seclusion and threaten to kill one candidate every hour and destroy all of Vatican City at midnight, using the missing vial of antimatter as a bomb. The Vatican summons symbologist Robert Langdon from Harvard University and Aviator from CERN to help them save the four preferiti and locate the vial.Langdon listens to the Illuminatis message and deduces that the four cardinals will die at the four altars of the Path of Illumination, marked by statues of angels in locations relevant to the four classical elements. Over the objections of Commander Maximilian Richter, head of the Swiss Guard, but with McKennas consent, Langdon is granted access to the Vatican Secret Archives. He examines Galileo Galileis banned book with Vetra. Following the clues and accompanied by Inspector General Ernesto Olivetti and Claudio Vincenzi of the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps, they arrive at the Chigi Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo. There they find Cardinal Ebner dead, suffocated with soil and branded with an ambigrammatic word Earth. They verify the second location is Saint Peters Square but are unable to save Cardinal Lamass his lungs punctured and his body branded with Air. ........
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