Da Vinci Code film

John's been thinking about the secrecy surrounding the making of the film version of Dan Brown's bestselling book, the Da Vinci Code.

"There are rumours of strong pressure on the film-makers to change the plot of the book (thereby, it seems to me, missing the entire point of the book).

Here’s how things stack up: on the one hand, there are all those Da Vinci Code fans out there (37 million copies sold, so far); on the other, all those devout Christian fanatics. Which way will Sony jump? Watch this space…"