Hollywood's take on Dan Brown's mega-bestseller The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, is coming, inexorably. Newsweek has a preview and this tantalizing what-might-have-been from producer Brian Grazer:
"The Da Vinci Code" is a different kind of project for Grazer and Howard, whose previous films, including "Apollo 13," "The Grinch" and "A Beautiful Mind," have grossed billions around the world and collected nine Oscars. The two usually develop their own projects for Imagine and shop them to a studio; this time, Sony brought them in as hired guns. Grazer tried to buy the rights to "The Da Vinci Code" for Imagine, with the idea of using the book as a template for the third season of his company's hit TV series, "24," but he got outfoxed by another bidder. "I just didn't know the right people," he says. "I didn't know Dan's people—the book people."
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