Feb 19 2009
God, There’s Another Book.
Sorry about the title. I couldn’t help myself.
It seems that Ron Howard (movie director, once aka “Opie”) has let out a secret: Dan Brown has finished his latest book.
Yes, “Celebrity television show ‘Entertainment Tonight’ said movie director Ron Howard told the program in an interview that Brown has completed his third book based on the fictional, mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon.”
Ron Howard is someone who could possibly know since he has directed both “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons”. (The movie adaptation of “Angels and Demons” is due out May 15.)
“Late in the day, a spokeswoman for Brown’s publisher Doubleday, would say only that Brown ‘is making great progress,’ stopping short of a full confirmation or denial.”
The working title for the new book has been “The Solomon Key,” is based in Washington, D.C., and centers on the Freemasons… which would be hard to make interesting after the way it’s been over-killed in the past, but we live in hope.
There has been resounding quiet from Dan Brown since the publication of “The Da Vinci Code”. I imagine there’s a lot of pressure if you sell over 70 million copies of a book. Plus, he’s proabably had to do a great deal of research. But can anything live up to “The Da Vinci Code”? It seemed to strike like lightning.
And I’m a little skeptical because of one thing that really bugs me about “Angels & Demons”. The hero should have died on page 500 of the novel. Dead. Gone. No one could have survived what happened. I’m dubious about how they’ll make it work in the film.
