{"id":1228,"date":"2007-11-16T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/angels-demons-hit-by-writers-strike\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:49:00","slug":"angels-demons-hit-by-writers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/angels-demons-hit-by-writers-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"Angels &amp; Demons hit by writers&#8217; strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117976189.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/tom-hanks-is-back-for-angels-demons.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Angels &amp; Demons<\/a><\/i>, the \u201cprequel\u201d to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/da-vinci-code-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Da Vinci Code<\/a><\/i> (2006) that was going to begin filming in February, has \u201cbecome the first major casualty of the ongoing writers strike.\u201d  The original release date was set for Christmas 2008, but has now been postponed to May 15 2009 \u2014 two weeks after the current release date for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/newsbites-trek-wolverine-rowling.html#2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/a><\/i> and one week before the current release date for James Cameron\u2019s <i>Avatar<\/i> \u2014 because there were \u201cinsurmountable problems\u201d with <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/da-vinci-sequel-sets-paycheque-record.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the script<\/a>, which was written in a rush just prior to the strike.  At the moment, the only actor attached to the film is Tom Hanks, no new start date has been set yet \u2014 and it is possible that the film could be postponed again if the actors\u2019 and directors\u2019 guilds go on strike in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reports that Angels &amp; Demons, the \u201cprequel\u201d to The Da Vinci Code (2006) that was going to begin filming in February, has \u201cbecome the first major casualty of the ongoing writers strike.\u201d The original release date was set for Christmas 2008, but has now been postponed to May 15 2009 \u2014 two weeks after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Angels &amp; Demons hit by writers&#039; strike<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Variety reports that Angels &amp; Demons, the &quot;prequel&quot; to The Da Vinci Code (2006) that was going to begin filming in February, has &quot;become the first\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/angels-demons-hit-by-writers-strike.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Angels &amp; Demons hit by writers&#039; strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Variety reports that Angels &amp; Demons, the &quot;prequel&quot; to The Da Vinci Code (2006) that was going to begin filming in February, has &quot;become the first\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/angels-demons-hit-by-writers-strike.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-16T16:49:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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