We also get a closer look at the heavily tattooed body that obsessive fans (hi!) will probably recognize as the novel’s main antagonist, a man who treats transforming his body like a spiritual experience. A new trailer for the series hints at a few more plot points from the novel, including Solomon’s severed hand left in the Capitol’s Rotunda and the assistance of Solomon’s sister (and requisite lithe love interest for Robert), Katherine. (No offense to Tom Hanks, but that’s actually a bit more true to the books than the movies are - Dan Brown loves to remind his readers how irresistible to the ladies Robert Langdon is.)īilled as a prequel, despite its source material being the third book in the Robert Langdon series, The Lost Symbol stars Ashley Zukerman (last seen as Shiv’s sidepiece on Succession) as a young Langdon who is invited into an ancient Masonic scavenger hunt across Washington, D.C., when his mentor, Peter Solomon (Eddie Izzard), is kidnapped. The symbologist-slash-action-hero of Dan Brown’s best-selling series and Ron Howard’s film adaptations ( Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno) is getting his own show on Peacock. The first Robert Langdon novel, Angels & Demons, was published in 2000, but it was 2003’s The Da Vinci Code and the movie of the same name that really catapulted the series to fame.ĭan Brown’s The Lost Symbol will stream soon on Peacock.Huge news for dads everywhere and also me, personally: Robert Langdon is back. It looks like the show will do a similar thing, except he’s younger and hotter now, because, why not! Brown does spend an awful lot of time in each Robert Langdon book reminding his readers about how fit and handsome the symbologist is.
and uncovering secrets about the freemasons. The book follows Langdon trekking through Washington D.C. The show is based on the third book of the Robert Langdon series, though it turns the story into a prequel.
It’s been a hot second since the last Robert Langdon book got turned into a movie, which was 2016’s Inferno (based on the 2013 book of the same name). Except, this time he’s not played by Tom Hanks, but instead by Ashley Zukerman ( Succession).
The Da Vinci Code hero of Dan Brown’s novels is back in the first teaser for a Peacock prequel series. For all you Robert Langdon stans out there waiting for your next fix of the Harvard professor turned dashing action hero, you’re in luck.
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