In September, Entertainment Weekly reported that Dan Brown's fifth Robert Langdon mystery, Origins, will be released Sept. Fortunately, if he and Hanks want to make another Langdon flick, they won't have to go back to that well unless they want to. In a separate interview with Cinema Blend, Inferno director Ron Howard explained that his team wasn't able to "internally crack" The Lost Symbol as a movie. We had to say that we don't quite think there is something to truly hang on.
and the question of the Masons was very reminiscent of the theoretical dilemmas of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. Hanks said: That was interesting because we actually worked on for a while to see if there was something, and at the end of the day, Washington, D.C. Tom Hanks told Cinema Blend that the decision came down to the former's similarity to the plot of the first two films.
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Ultimately, The Lost Symbol movie was scrapped in favor of pursuing Inferno.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images ( Inferno came out in 2013.) The publication also reported that Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard had passed on helming that one.
According to The Los Angeles Times, Empire's Danny Strong was working on a screenplay adaptation of the 2009 release The Lost Symbol. In fact, an earlier Brown novel was in development before Inferno was even published. (Alternative title suggestion: National Treasure: Euro Trip.) Could this new movie revive the cat-and-mouse series? If it's a success, Inferno could get a sequel.Ĭolumbia Pictures has not announced concrete plans to produce another Langdon movie after this one. In this cryptic adventure, Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with selective amnesia and then must stop a genocidal maniac with the help of a map of the underworld based on Dante's Inferno. Inferno stars Hanks and Oscar nominee Felicity Jones and is based on Brown's most recent novel with the same name. It's been seven years since the Angels movie, and Langdon is back with another Judeo-Christian puzzle to solve. The author struck pay dirt with his bestselling mystery novels Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci C ode, both which were adapted into feature films starring Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon.
It’s exactly the kind of action fans of the novels would expect, and it’s a promising look at what’s to come.It's a truth universally acknowledged that most houses have at least one copy of a Dan Brown book floating around somewhere. The footage shows Zukerman’s Langdon, Izzard’s Peter Solomon, and the rest of the cast traversing catacombs, fighting bad guys, and deciphering a myriad of mysterious markings.
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The stories consist primarily of thriller-toned treasure hunts and historical conspiracy theories, which Langdon solves using his knowledge of art history and ancient symbols.Ī new Langdon adaptation is now on the way in the form of a Lost Symbol series for Peacock, which has been revealed in a new trailer. That success has been translated to the big screen with the Tom Hanks-led adaptations of The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno. The Lost Symbol is being developed as a Peacock original series, with no official release date announced as of yet.ĭan Brown’s Robert Langdon novels, which began in 2000 with Angels & Demons and most recently included 2017’s Origin, is one of the best-selling adult book series of all time, with The Lost Symbol having sold a million copies on its first day of publication. The series stars Ashley Zukerman as protagonist, Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks in the film series), alongside Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Sumalee Montano, Beau Knapp, and Rick Gonzalez. An official trailer has been released for The Lost Symbol, an adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel of the same name being developed as a prequel to the Da Vinci Code movies for Peacock.