Roughly the same situation happened later with the 21st century (live-action) adaptations of the fantasy story The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937) and its fantasy epic sequel The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) the each of the three volumes of the latter being adapted in the 2000s decade, and the former being adapted into a sequence of three movies in the 2010s. The Da Vinci Code novel was simply adapted to film first, in other words, and this was because it was the more popular of the two books and therefore more likely to appeal to fans of that book. The novel Angels & Demons (2000) was written and published before novel The Da Vinci Code (2003) was, and it is set prior accordingly, but its adaptation was filmed and released after the second novel's adaptation was. Matters become complicated when they learn that the preferiti, the four candidates for the papacy, have been abducted, and each one is going to be murdered during the four hours preceding the explosion.

When they learn that the antimatter container, which is set to explode in six hours, is buried somewhere in Vatican City, Langdon and Bentivoglio's research partner, Vittoria Vetra ( Ayelet Zurer), travel to Vatican City in an attempt to find the container. Meanwhile, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ( Tom Hanks) has been summoned to the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, where Silvano Bentivoglio ( Carmen Argenziano), one of their leading nuclear physicists, has been murdered, branded across the chest with the word 'Illuminati', and the container holding his greatest achievement-antimatter-has been stolen. The Pope has died, and every one of the world's 165 cardinals have arrived in Vatican City to begin the conclave, the secret meeting during which the cardinals elect a new Pope.

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