Clearly hoping that The Da Vinci Code will kick-start a trend for movies with “code” in their title, legendary helmer/actor Peter Bogdanovich will direct The Broken Code.
All right, so this one has nothing to do with hidden messages in old paintings: it’s a biopic of the research scientist who played a key role in James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of DNA’s structure. Yeah, now you know you need to see it.
David Baxter wrote the script, which is based on Anne Sayre’s book Rosalind Franklin And DNA, set in the cutthroat world of Big Discovery science and explores her life, including the fact that James Watson downplayed her contribution. Her death meant that she could never challenge his claim and that she missed out on being considered for the Nobel Prize. Now that’s just bad luck.