Ewan McGregor grabs The Electric Slide

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Ewan McGregor and An Education’s Carey Mulligan are negotiating to lead the cast of The Electric Slide.

The film will tell the true-life tale of LA-based furniture salesman Eddie Dodson.

Seemingly unsatisfied with the lavish parties and celebrity friends that his high-end good shop brought him in the 1980s, Dodson decided that the only real way to impress his new girlfriend was to take a risk – so he robbed a bank.

Turns out he was better at it than he thought, as he ended up on a crime spree, pulling off 72 heists before the FBI tracked him down.

“This is an amazing story,” Kirk D’Amico of the financing company behind the new indie tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s just unbelievable the way this guy was able to rob bank after bank and always slipping away just before the FBI got there.”

Tristan Patterson, who adapted the script from a Gear mag article, will also make it his directing debut.

Sources: THR and Total Film

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“Angels and Demons” Stars Reveal More Secrets!

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Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer and director Ron Howard reveal secrets from ‘Angels and Demons’ — in front of the camera and behind it — from pulled permits and skimpy costume changes to the graphic nature of the violence in the story and how it translates to the screen!

In theaters everywhere May 15, ‘Angels and Demons’ is the highly anticipated follow-up to Oscar-winning duo Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ in which Professor Robert Langdon must face off with the mysterious Illuminati and uncover a plot to destroy the Vatican.

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“Angels and Demons” trailer

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A new trailer for Tom Hanks’ Angels and Demons, the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, is now online.

Directed by Ron Howard and adapted from a Dan Brown novel, the film sees Hanks reprising his role as professor Robert Langdon.

This time round he’s called in by the Vatican to help unravel the mystery behind a secret society called the Illuminati, who have planted an antimatter bomb under Rome.

Ewan McGregor also stars as Carlo Ventresca, the Camerlengo of the Vatican, while Vittoria Vetra takes over where Audrey Tatou as Langdon’s sexy right-hand woman.

Angels and Demons is released in the UK on May 15.

Watch the Angels and Demons trailer here

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“Angels & Demons” – Rome Photocall

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26x “Angels & Demons” – Rome Photocall – February 15, 2009

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Da Vinci Code sequel angers Vatican

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Ron Howard has admitted having a run in with the Catholic church over his forthcoming Da Vinci Code sequel.

Speaking at a press conference for Angels and Demons, the director said he had been refused permission by the Vatican to film in many of the churches featured in the Dan Brown novel because of the controversy surrounding his 2006 adaptation of The Da Vinci Code.

“[The Vatican] made it clear from the start there would be no co-operation on their part, so we didn’t even bother asking their permission. So we had to apply our own filmic ingenuity, using all the technological advantages that film-makers have at their disposal.

“I feel very confident in saying that we’re able to take the audience on a very realistic and authentic journey behind the walls of the Vatican. But could we bring a film crew in and shoot? No.”

Howard, who recently directed Frost/Nixon, also said he would be keen to adapt future Dan Brown books about Robert Langdon, the chief protagonist in The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

He said: “Dan apparently has another Robert Langdon adventure in the pipeline. Working on these stories has been a fascinating experience. There’s clearly an audience for them. I’m going to be reading that story with great curiousity.”

The novel Angels and Demons is actually a prequel to The Da Vinci Code, but Howard’s film adaptation is set after the events of his 2006 movie. The film, which stars Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor, is released on 15 May.

Source: Magazín Ixtanbul

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