El regreso de El Código da Vinci

La revista Newsweek presenta cada fin de año su número especial para preveer el año próximo: Who´s Next. Comenta que para este época del año, en 2006, quienes perfila ahora habrán ya cambiado nuestra manera de vivir, de pensar.

De la ciencia a los negocios, de la política a la música, caras nuevas - o no tan nuevas, pero de nueva cuenta influyentes - buscan hacer del 2006 un año interesante.

Y quizá la película que más polémica produzca, sea la versión filmica de la más polémica novela de nuestros tiempos: El Código da Vinci. Esto es algo de lo que cuenta la revista:

"... If you're not one of the 25 million people worldwide who have read "The Da Vinci Code," you have six months to get caught up before the movie opens on May 19, 2006. You'll need a day or two, tops. Brown's frantic, addictive novel, about a Harvard symbology professor named Robert Langdon who gets embroiled in a murder mystery of Biblical proportions, is a combination thriller, religious manifesto and art-history lecture, with chapters about as long as a takeout menu. Since it was published in 2003, the book has become a global industry, spawning everything from critical documentaries to reverential bus tours. It has been condemned by the Vatican for disseminating falsehoods about the Roman Catholic Church and by literary critics for disseminating lame prose. The cult of "The Da Vinci Code" will reach new heights with the release of Columbia Pictures' $125 million film version, starring Tom Hanks as Langdon and an international cast led by Reno, Ian McKellen ("The Lord of the Rings"), Paul Bettany ("A Beautiful Mind") and Alfred Molina ("Spider-Man 2"). The role of Sophie ended up going to Audrey Tautou ("Amelie")...

Next year's summer movie season will feature Superman's return to the big screen, a sequel to "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the third installments of "X-Men" and "Mission: Impossible," but none will arrive with the fanfare of "The Da Vinci Code." "I wouldn't want to open another movie anywhere near this one," says Sony studio chief Amy Pascal. (Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony.) Howard is just starting to edit the film, but he and his team took a break to speak exclusively with NEWSWEEK about how they're cracking "The Da Vinci Code." For inspiration, Howard has revisited classic thrillers with spiritual elements, such as "The Exorcist" and "Rosemary's Baby," as well as movies in which action springs from conversation, as in "All the President's Men." His goal is to duplicate the experience of reading the book—no small task, considering that Brown's tale unfolds in real time over the course of 20 hours and that the movie will run less than three. Plenty will be omitted, but Howard insists nothing dear has been lost. He's made a believer out of Brown. "The novelist is always the adaptation's most skeptical audience," the press-shy author said in a statement to NEWSWEEK, "but I think this movie will blow people away. I truly believe moviegoers will come out of the theater feeling like they've just watched the novel."

Mayo aún se me hace lejos, pero el corto de la película ya está en línea.