Should I watch Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol? Keeping up the Hanks connection behind the camera, Tom’s old buddy and frequent collaborator Ron Howard is one of the producers of this new series, along with Brian Grazer and Dan Brown himself. Beau Knapp has been cast as the ominous Mal’akh, our tattoo-covered antagonist. When Solomon disappears, a trail of sinister clues will blossom into global conspiracy, with only Langdon’s knowledge of ancient codes and societies illuminating the truth. Instead, Australian actor Ashley Zukerman will be making symbology sexy as a younger version of Robert Langdon-sporting sensible vests and saying things like, “how’s your Latin?” You might recognise Zukerman from roles in Succession or Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy-here, he goes from The Code to The Da Vinci Code.Īs in the existing Brown adaptations, Langdon will be teaming up with the worried daughter (Valorie Curry) of a respected elder, in this case ponytailed mentor Peter Solomon (Eddie Izzard). Sadly, T.Hanks and his questionable wigs are not appearing in this prequel series. Who’s in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol? Where’s my boy Tom Hanks?
Something about the Washington-set, Masonic mystery plot of The Lost Symbol made it more suitable for TV, perhaps. So it’s surprising Ron Howard and Hanks were unable to adapt it for the big screen, instead choosing to adapt the later book Inferno as a belated threequel. Published in 2009, The Lost Symbol became the fastest-selling adult novel in history. The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Inferno were all pretty so-so, the kind of cinema to divert your world-history-obsessed dad on a Sunday afternoon. “With over 200 million copies in print worldwide” as The Lost Symbol‘s trailer above boasts, Langdon’s episodic mysteries were destined for the big screen, and Tom Hanks starred as Brown’s brilliant alter ego three times. Seriously, you couldn’t go anywhere in 2004 without seeing the Mona Lisa smiling at you from the cover of The Da Vinci Code. What does The Lost Symbol have to do with Dan Brown’s other novels?Īmerican author Dan Brown became a household name in the early 2000s, with his insanely popular series of Robert Langdon adventures.
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