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Over the course of his decades-long career, Tom Hanks has easily become one of the biggest mainstays in Hollywood. While he hasn't taken over the big screen much recently, Hanks continues putting out projects that fans just can't get enough of, both in front of and behind the camera. Just a month ago, for example, Finch was trending on Apple TV. Now another huge Hanks film is about to leave Netflix, alongside several interesting titles.
This particular film stars Hanks as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. It’s a mystery-thriller novel by Dan Brown, and the 2009 film adaptation is directed by Ron Howard. The film follows Hanks’ character Langdon and a scientist race through Rome to stop the ancient Illuminati from destroying Vatican City with a stolen antimatter bomb and murdering kidnapped cardinals.
The title of the film is Angels & Demons, and it’s leaving Netflix on November 1. The film was released after The Da Vinci Code, also based on Dan Brown’s book series. That’s sometimes confusing because in the books, Angels & Demons (2000) was written first and serves as Langdon's first chronological adventure, while The Da Vinci Code (2003) is the second book. In the movies, though, the release order was flipped. The Da Vinci Code hit theaters in 2006, and its sequel, Angels & Demons, was released in 2009. In 2016, another film adaptation of the same series came out, and it was titled Inferno. The same book series is now getting a series adaptation at Netflix starring The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Collider Exclusive · Villain Personality Quiz Which Criminal Mastermind Would Be Your Nemesis? Lecter · Joker · Moriarty · Chigurh
Four of the finest criminal minds ever put on screen. One of them would look at you and see something worth their time. Eight questions decide which one comes for you, why they picked you, and what they would want when they arrived.
🍷Lecter
🃏Joker
♟️Moriarty
🪙Chigurh
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01
What would a criminal mastermind notice about you first? Great villains choose their opponents carefully. Something about you got their attention.
AMy manners, and everything I am careful not to say. BThat I still believe people are basically decent. CThat I am clever, and quietly enjoy proving it. DThat I handle things myself, and always have.
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02
How do they make first contact? The introduction tells you everything about what is coming next.
AA polite letter. Beautiful handwriting. Quietly wrong. BSomething on fire, with a message left beside it. CA puzzle, left where only I would look. DNo contact. Just the aftermath, and a coin.
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03
What do you actually believe about right and wrong? Every nemesis is really an argument about the thing you believe most.
AThere are lines. Mine are private and absolute. BRules are the only thing keeping us from being animals. CMorality is a system, and systems can be solved. DThings happen. Most of it was never up to me.
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04
What finally gets under your skin? Everybody has a pressure point. Finding yours is the whole plan.
ABeing seen clearly by somebody I cannot read. BWatching good people do something ugly. CLosing to someone who was simply better prepared. DHaving no move left that changes anything.
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05
They have made their move. How do you fight back? This is the part of the film where the audience finds out who you are.
ACarefully, and never where they expect to be touched. BLoudly. I would rather lose than play their game. CWith a better plan. I can out-think this. DDirectly, once, with whatever is closest to hand.
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06
What would they use against you? A good villain never brings a weapon you have not already handed them.
AMy privacy. I have kept far too much to myself. BMy conscience. I will not cross the line they want. CMy ego. I cannot resist a worthy opponent. DMy certainty that I can handle it alone.
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07
What do they actually want from you? The money is never the point. Something else always is.
ATo understand me better than anyone ever has. BTo prove I am no better than they are. CTo finally be beaten by someone worth the trouble. DNothing at all. I stepped into the wrong path.
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08
How does it end between the two of you? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides who comes for you.
AA conversation I will be replaying for years. BA choice forced on me that has no clean answer. COne final move, and the better mind wins. DA coin in the air, and nothing I can say.
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The Case File Is Complete Your Nemesis Is…
Four criminal masterminds. One of them was always going to be yours. Here is who comes for you, why they picked you out of everyone available, and what they want from the encounter.
Hannibal Lecter
Your nemesis does not want to beat you. He wants to know you completely, and he is patient enough to wait for it. The frightening part is how good the conversation is.
- Lecter is the most dangerous kind of opponent: the one who finds you interesting. He never raises his voice, because he has never needed to.
- You keep a great deal to yourself and you are careful about what you show. That reserve is exactly the door he would knock on.
- The films understood something other thrillers missed. The horror is not the violence. It is being perfectly understood by the wrong person.
- He would be unfailingly polite about all of it. That is the worst part.
The Joker
Your nemesis is not after money, territory or revenge. He is after a demonstration, and you are the person he has chosen to prove his point on.
- The Joker only picks opponents who believe in something. Your decency is not a defence against him. It is the entire reason he showed up.
- He has no plan you can predict and nothing you can take away, which removes every tool you would normally reach for.
- His whole argument is that you are one bad day away from being him, and you would spend the rest of your life proving him wrong.
- He would call it a magic trick. You would call it the worst night of your life.
Moriarty
Your nemesis respects you, which sounds flattering until you work out what it means. He chose you because nobody else was worth his time.
- Moriarty is the original criminal mastermind, the template every later one borrows from: a mind the equal of the hero's, pointed the wrong way.
- You enjoy being the cleverest person in the room. He is counting on exactly that, and he has already built the room.
- This is the rare nemesis who would be genuinely disappointed if you lost badly. He needs the game to be worth playing.
- It ends the way these things always end. Two people, one problem, and only one way down.
Anton Chigurh
Your nemesis has no personal interest in you whatsoever, and that is precisely what makes him unsurvivable. You are not a rival. You are a stop on the way.
- Chigurh does not negotiate, gloat or explain. He arrives, he asks one question, and the answer was decided long before you opened your mouth.
- You trust yourself to handle things. He is the one problem in the world that has no interest in how capable you are.
- No Country for Old Men rewrote the screen villain by removing the thing audiences quietly rely on: the sense that talking might work.
- Call it. He will wait.
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Why Did the Movies Skip ‘The Lost Symbol’ and Jump Straight to ‘Inferno’?
In Dan Brown’s novel series, the third book was called The Lost Symbol, but there has been no film adaptation of that novel. Instead, they jumped to Inferno, which is also the title of the fourth book. As far as why The Lost Symbol never got actualized is concerned, Sony actually developed it as the third Tom Hanks movie and commissioned scripts, but Ron Howard later said they could never quite crack the adaptation.
He felt its Washington, D.C. setting, Freemason conspiracy, and puzzle-driven structure were too close tonally and thematically to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. Hanks expressed essentially the same concern. When Brown published Inferno in 2013, Howard thought its Dante-inspired mystery, amnesia setup, and global biological threat felt like a more cinematic progression, so Sony skipped ahead and released it in 2016.
Angels & Demons is leaving Netflix on November 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date April 20, 2009
