In a wide-ranging press conference, Brown also revealed that the intrepid Langdon - portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Hollywood adaptations of the book series - was 'the man I wish I could be'.Īsked whether the professor would have been a Donald Trump voter, Brown replied: 'I doubt it. 'Now more than ever we need to look at why we believe what we believe, look at our information sources and be very discerning,' he said. He said his latest novel, released last week and already topping book charts around the world, also delves into current concerns about fake news. 'I think the Church needs to evolve or it will go extinct, and I think that Pope Francis feels that also and is trying very, very hard to make Catholicism relevant in the modern world,' he said. It is Browns second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. He praised Pope Francis for trying to bring the Church into the modern era. The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. I also think that the world has changed such that it is no longer a requirement,' he said.
'I think religion does a lot of good in the world. Read also: Star authors en vogue at Frankfurt book fairīut Brown, 53, insisted that he was not against religion, and that said he just wanted to 'start a dialogue'. One of the top-selling books of all time, it tells the story of a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to hide the fact that Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene.
