Angels & Demons Viral: Secret Message in Teaser Trailer
Two days ago, Sony released the teaser trailer for “Angels & Demons,” the followup to Dan Brown‘s highly successful book/movie The Da Vinci Code.
Hidden in the trailer is an ambigram (reads the same thing upside down as upside right) of Illuminati that also figures heavily in the plot of the book/movie. Digging a little deeper, there’s actually a hidden message in the letters of the ambigram. With a few steps in Photoshop, the words “Altars of Science” is clearly visible.
It just happens that Sony owns a site with a domain name www.altarsofscience.com, which contains a video feed of a room with the word “Illuminati” written on the wall and a device that looks like a bomb. There is also a countdown set to run out on May 15th, 2009, which is the theatrical release date of “Angels & Demons.”
Looking at the source code for the website, there seems to be a message from the Illuminati, stating:
“We will destroy your four pillars, brand your preferiti and sacrifice them on the altars of science…and then bring your church down upon you. Vatican City will be consumed by light.”
If this is any early indication of the viral marketing campaign for the movie, it looks like Angels & Demons will easily surpass its predecessor.
Tom Hanks will reprise his role ( Da Vinci Code) as the Harvard religious expert Robert Langdon. Ron Howard again directs the film, which is produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and John Calley. The screenplay is by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman.
The film also stars Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Pierfrancesco Favino, August Fredrik and Stellan Skarsgård.
Also, if you take a screen capture of the video and brighten it in photoshop you can see a letter T at the top. Also in the code you can see links to privacy statements and other links and stuff that have been commented out. Looks like this is just the first part of a much bigger Viral campaign. Just hope it’s as good as or better than what they did for the Da Vinci Code.
The letter T isn’t there anymore. I guess it was probably a glitch on my computer or something.
Well sometimes it’s there and sometimes it’s not. I took a picture of it this time though:
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5253/tmpwa5.jpg
Still, probably just a glitch on my computer.
the website just changed!
now there’s a blank where you’re supposed to enter a code.
the code is numerical.
any idea what it is?
i was also wondering what the numerical code would do if you put in the right code… and do you know the code or not?
may be the date of the film in the cinema? 15 05 2009 in Spain?
I’m especially fascinated by the idea that the adults learnt from the children. ,
Of course, being scooped is always a risk with research projects. ,
Its like trying to control the weather, at this point, mother nature is gonna do what she wants to do. ,