In order, the books go from Angels & Demons (2000) to The Da Vinci Code (2003) to The Lost Symbol (2009) to Inferno (2013) to Origin (2017), with Origin - at least for now - remaining as the only book yet to receive some kind of screen treatment. Zukerman stepped into the role Hanks made famous in the movies, playing Robert Langdon as a younger version of the character, this time on the hunt for deep, dangerous answers behind the kidnapping of his academic mentor Robert Solomon (Eddie Izzard).Įven before The Lost Symbol landed at Peacock, Howard and Hanks had been skipping around in Brown’s book timeline to find source material for the Robert Langdon films. The Lost Symbol, meanwhile, didn’t languish long without an adaptation of its own, eventually spawning a 10-episode Peacock prequel series starring Ashley Zukerman (of Netflix Fear Street fame).
RELATED: Our Favorite Holy Grail Quest Adventure Movies it’s the secretive stuff that propels Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (stream it here on Peacock!) As luck would have it, it’s also exactly the kind of deep-intrigue material that almost got its own big-screen treatment, with Ron Howard at the directing helm and Tom Hanks in the leading role.īut instead of becoming the third film adaptation (after The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons) drawing on author Dan Brown’s conspiracy-infused Robert Langdon book series, Howard and Hanks bypassed those ingredients from Brown’s 2009 novel The Lost Symbol and went elsewhere in the Robert Langdon timeline, opting instead to turn Inferno (2013) into their next Brown-inspired movie. Ancient Freemasonry, a mysterious kidnapping, and the cryptic key to divine enlightenment lurking deep beneath the seat of power in Washington, D.C.
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