Don’t miss the Peacock original series Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U. However, if Inferno does well critically and financially, you can bet that a fresh pass will be made on those existing Lost Symbol scripts, and Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon may run, yet again. 1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn.
But according to Ron Howard, they tried to crack it, they couldn't quite figure the story out - it similarly finds Robert Langdon racing around an historical city solving buried clues and trying to attempt an evil-doer from completing a task. He has become so popular an author that his book, 'The Lost Symbol', sold over one million copies in the first 24 hours. The work catapulted the author into a truly stratospheric level in the book publishing world. So, Dan Brown fans, The Lost Symbol isn't off the table. Dan Browns best-selling novel, 'The Da Vinci Code,' has sold over 85 million copies. Novels, history, Sci-Fi, Business, Fantasy, Bestesellers, Business, Fictions audiobook download. This has been a matter of getting a great Dan Brown book, seeing how the adaptation goes, see if it reaches that point where the studio and Tom and myself and Brian Grazer all look at each other and say, 'You know, we must make this.' And that's how we felt about Inferno. Listen to your favorite audio books online absolutely free. Each and every one of these has never been a situation we're contracted to do them and we're backing into a release date, sort of doing any of the things that the other franchises tend to need to do. We just never could just internally crack it, to the point that we felt like this is, something we're dying, that we just have to sort of, we have to tell, and we believe audiences are going to want to see it. We've had scripts on it, and that was the other thing. Lost Symbol is outstanding and you know, someday, something important has to be done with it.Īt that point, I asked Ron Howard if that meant he was keeping it in his back pocket as a fourth possible Dan Brown adaptation, to which he replied: immediately felt like a cinematic next step, and that excited us. It's great material, but it felt like, coming close on the heels of Angels and Demons and Da Vinci Code, that thematically and tonally, it might feel a little bit too much like the other books, at that particular moment. The way Howard explained it to me:Ĭinematically, when Lost Symbol came out, I think our feeling, my feeling was that it's a terrific, another terrific novel. And over the course of our conversation, I asked him why they skipped over The Lost Symbol, a Robert Langdon mystery set in Washington, D.C., and hopped right to Inferno. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Earlier today, Ron Howard jumped on the phone to talk Inferno, the movie's new trailer, and his work on Dan Brown's books, in general. The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. The Lost Symbol, available in paperback wherever books are sold on 10/19/10, once again features Dan Browns unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon.