Are you ready to solve puzzles every single week with everyone’s favorite fictional symbologist? Are there any real-life symbologists out there? Anyway, Dan Brown’s Langdon is getting a series order from Peacock, promising that fans of The Da Vinci Code will have all the Robert Langdon they can handle.
Dan Brown’s Langdon is coming to Peacock as a series, after a pilot was ordered for the streamer last year. The series “follows the early adventures of famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.”
Playing the role of Langdon is Succession actor Ashley Zukerman, joined by Valorie Curry (Blair Witch), Sumalee Montano (10 Cloverfield Lane), Rick Gonzalez (Arrow), Eddie Izzard (The Cat’s Meow), and Beau Knapp (Seven Seconds). Pretty good group there.
Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie will act as writers and exec-producers, with the latter title also going to Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Dan Brown. What, no Tom Hanks?
Hanks is the most recognizable version of Robert Langdon, after all. He played the famed historian in a trio of blockbuster films, with the last one, Inferno, opening in 2016
The Langdon series actually began as a film adaptation of The Lost Symbol, but they could never quite get it right and skipped it in favor of Inferno. A couple of years ago those plans were reworked into a television series, and now here we are. Here’s the book synopsis for The Lost Symbol, which should give some idea where the show is going.
Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom.
When his mentor Peter Solomon—a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth . . . all under the watchful eye of Dan Brown’s most terrifying villain to date.