You’re going to see a lot of Da Vinci Code coverage on this site in the next few months, not because I want to cover it, but because I kind of have to. Maybe I should actually pick up the book and force myself to read it, but I’m incredibly turned off by the whole cult-like following that’s sprung up around it. Pushing me even further away from it is the annoyingly vocal group of wackos out there trying to prove this work of fiction to be true… when it most certainly isn’t. Maybe that’s not fair to the book, but the whole hubbub surrounding it is a terrible bore. Still, the movie must be covered because there’s an insane amount of people interested in it. We bow to pressure.
According to numerous sources this morning, the latest is that the Da Vinci Code movie’s producers have shelled out a hefty wad of cash in a deal that gives them the right to film in the Lincoln Church. They’ll be using it as a double for London’s Westminster Abbey, whose clerics aren’t nearly so quick to sell out God. Cathedral Chief Roy also confirms he’s sold off another notable and as of yet unnamed religious site for them to use in conjunction with the Lincoln Church.
This adds quite nicely to the growing list of important Euro landmarks being used as shooting locations for the film. Not so long ago we heard they’d secured permission to film in the Louvre Museum in Paris (#9 on my top ten places I'd like to visit but probably won't get to before I die list), a rarity since the place normally has a strong aversion to cameras.
