on Saturday, I was out taking a stroll with dear Mr Moss and little Hambet, and we saw a poster for that DaVinci Code movie.
I had high hopes when I heard that Sir Ian McKellan had been cast for the movie. I was hoping that he would be cast as Silas, the albino Opus Dei monk-assasin and that he would steal the whole movie, the same way Alan Rickman subverted "Prince of Thieves." But alas, it was not to be; Paul Bettany is to play Silas.
So maybe all is not lost. Bettany was cast as Maturin in "Master and Commander" and I didn't think the character they gave him to play had anything to do with the Maturin of the books. So maybe there will be a really clever, subversive screenwriter on the project who will give Silas all the funny lines.
