FILM OF DAN BROWN’S NEXT UNWRITTEN BOOK ALREADY ANNOUNCED

Hollywood insiders announced yesterday that there is a new film in the works for author Dan Brown’s next book, which has yet to be written. The movie will be directed by Ron Howard and will star Tom Hanks as the leading role. Howard and Hanks collaborated in two other film adaptations of Brown’s novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and will once again for Brown's latest novel The Lost Symbol, but they have laid plans to shoot another movie starting in 2015 based on a novel Brown has yet to write. Insiders say Hanks will probably play some intelligent leading man in a fedora involved in some underground espionage dealing with religion or secret societies -- “or something like that,” says film insider Harry Hobble. Hobble says that although the story hasn’t been written yet, it is destined to be a bestselling book and successful film. “I mean, this guy’s shopping list is gold. Brown is that brilliant,” says Hobble. The film, which will be named something like The Klan of Theta or Guardian Bliss, already has a forty million dollar budget that has, among other things, secured the Vatican as a shooting location, which is probably where the book will take place. Although Brown is mostly enthusiastic about the project, he is worried that his novel will be overlooked in favor of the film. “I just don’t want this book, whatever it is, to be in the shadow of the film, as was the case with films like A Clockwork Orange,” Brown said, referencing Anthony Burgess’s novel which was turned into a classic film by director Stanley Kubrick. When asked if Brown would ever cut to the chase and take up screenwriting, Brown denied the prospect saying that he was more interested in authorial integrity, and would never sell his soul to Hollywood. In other film news, film critics have already given awful reviews of M. Night Shyamalan’s next film, which is set to begin shooting next month.