Angels & Demons

Physicist Leonardo Vetra is murdered at CERN, his chest branded with an Illuminati ambigram, and a sample of antimatter goes missing. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's adopted daughter, learn it's hidden in the Vatican in the middle of a conclave. The four leading cardinals have been kidnapped by an assassin working for Janus, and Langdon follows the altars of science across Rome without saving any of them. CERN director Kohler dies, leaving behind a video. Camerlengo Ventresca flies the antimatter off in a helicopter; Langdon jumps with a tarp and lands in the Tiber. The video shows that Ventresca is Janus and the late Pope's biological son. He sets himself on fire, and Mortati is elected pope.

1. ChangeVittoria loses her father

   In the book, the physicist murdered at CERN is Leonardo Vetra, Vittoria's adoptive father. The film turns him into Father Silvano Bentivoglio, no relation to her, and drops the Vittoria and Langdon romance.

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2. ChangeA different camerlengo

   The Italian camerlengo Carlo Ventresca, the Pope's biological son in the book, becomes the Irish Patrick McKenna, an adopted son. The Swiss Guard's command changes too, and CERN director Maximilian Kohler is left out.

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3. ChangeLangdon skips the helicopter jump

   In the book, Langdon gets on the helicopter with the antimatter, jumps with a tarp for a parachute and lands in the Tiber near Tiber Island. In the film he stays on the ground.

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4. ChangeOne cardinal survives

   In the book, all four preferiti die and Cardinal Mortati becomes pope. In the film, Langdon saves Cardinal Baggia at Piazza Navona, and Baggia is the one elected.

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