Westminster Abbey nixes 'Da Vinci Code'

Producers of the upcoming movie based on the blockbuster novel "The Da Vinci Code" have been denied permission to film in England's famed Westminster Abbey by church officials who denounced the book as "theologically unsound."

The 940-year-old London Abbey, where British monarchs are crowned, is featured in the murder mystery by Dan Brown. The film version will star Tom Hanks.

"Although a real page turner, 'The Da Vinci Code' is theologically unsound, and we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book -- nor its views of Christianity and the New Testament," the abbey said in a statement. "It would therefore be inappropriate to film scenes from the book here."