Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning director and writer of A Beautiful Mind, reunite to bring Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the most popular and controversial novels of our time, to the big screen with a cast headed by two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Sir Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina.
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci – clues visible for all to see – yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion – an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret – and an explosive historical truth – will be lost forever!
Special Features:
- Extended Film includes 25 minutes of additional footage!
- Filmmaker Commentaries
- First Day on the Set with Ron Howard
- Book To Screen
- A Portrait of Langdon
- Who Is Sophie Neveu?
- Unusual Suspects
- Close Up On Mona Lisa
- Recreating Works of Art
- Magical Places
- Da Vinci Tours
- Da Vinci Props
- The Filmmaking Experience
- Visual Effects
- Editing The Da Vinci Code
- Scoring
- Da Vinci (Film) Codes
- Da Vinci Cameos
- Deletes Scenes Featurette
- DVD Introduction From Ron Howard