Angels & Demons

Crew members visited Vatican City as tourists and extensively photographed the city to capture as much detail as possible, knowing they were unlikely to be allowed to film there, so that they could recreate the sets as faithfully as possible.

The blast from the antimatter bomb is described as about 5 kilotons. This is 1/3 of the Hiroshima blast. The thermal and radiation blast, even from several thousand feet, would have destroyed the Vatican and killed everyone below.

At the very beginning, when the Columbia girl is standing holding aloft the torch, it flickers like the anti-matter.

The UK release was cut, this film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version. The BBFC advised the distributor that the film was likely to receive a 15 classification but that the requested 12A classification could be obtained by making reductions in four scenes. In particular the BBFC suggested that sight of blood splattering onto a character's face, sight of a character screaming in pain as he burns, sight of a wound being injected and sight of a character self-immolating and burning should all be reduced. When the finished version of the film was submitted, all these reductions had been made satisfactorily and the film was classified 12A.