Besides the angels and demons and illuminati designs, the title of the book is also. The book contains several ambigrams created by reallife typographer john. Robert langdon tom hanks, as an expert harvard symbologist, goes to the vatican to assist in. Camerlengo carlo ventresca named patrick mckenna in the film adaptation a. Ewan mcgregors character in the book was an italian named carlo ventresca. Cardinal strauss, the pope s new camerlengo, gives langdon the diagramma. Langdon is granted access to the vatican archives by the camerlengo, where he believes a document containing. Their search is assisted by camerlengo carlo ventresca the late popes. Camerlengo patrick mckenna, simply known as patrick mckenna, is the main antagonist of the 2009 film angels and demons. Angels and demons reteams director ron howard and star tom hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of dan browns novel the da vinci code. He was a camerlengo who planned to alert the world to the church and brainwash everybody into following the church again because he thought everyone had become too devoted to science.
With kohler pointing his gun at the camerlengo, he manages to extract the confession from the young priest who. The name was changed to camerlengo patrick mckenna for the movie to reflect. The novel introduces the character robert langdon, who recurs as the protagonist of browns subsequent novels. Author dan browns books have been published in 52 languages. In the book, robert langdon and vittoria vetra are summoned to vatican city by the. And i think that ewan mcgregors excellent performance needs more recognition. In the book, the camerlengo chooses to let the worldwide media know about the illuminati plot to destroy the vatican, thus creating global sympathy for the. In the prologue of the book, the hassassin demanded a password from leonardo vetra to gain access into the. The primary hero of angels and demons, robert langdon is an odd figure.