Angels & Demons

Akiva Goldman is the Oscar-winning screenwriter for the film "A beautiful mind". His other screen credits include boxing drama "Cinderella Man" and unsuccessful "Batman & Robin", "I, Robot" or "Lost in Space" etc .. .. And Oh yes! ... A recent blockbuster -- "The Da Vinci Code"!

Buoyed by the box-office success of "The Da Vinci Code," Columbia Pictures has signed Akiva Goldman again to create a script for a sequel by turning author Dan Brown's first best-selling religious thriller, "Angels & Demons," into a movie. Columbia acquired feature rights to "Angels & Demons" and all future novels involving the Langdon character, as part of its 2003 acquisition of film rights to Brown's "Da Vinci Code."

"Angels & Demons", a bestseller published in 2000, was Brown's first novel to introduce the character of Robert Langdon, the crime-solving Harvard professor of iconography and religious art played by actor Tom Hanks in the "The Da Vinci Code." However, no deals have yet been reached for Tom Hanks or director Ron Howard to return for this sequel project.