Professor Robert Langdon is ready to tackle a brand-new set of ancient secret societies, religious conspiracies, and historical codes. Deadline reports that The Gilded Age star Morgan Spector is in talks to take over the iconic symbologist role originally played on the big screen by Tom Hanks. In an exciting casting twist, Spector’s real-life wife, Rebecca Hall, is also in talks to star alongside him.
The project—a series adaptation of Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Secret of Secrets—originally received a greenlight from Netflix last year.
The Secret of Secrets
In The Secret of Secrets, symbologist Robert Langdon (Spector) races against ancient forces and time to rescue his girlfriend, missing scientist Katherine Solomon (Hall), and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind.
Carlton Cuse and Dan Brown are the co-creators, writers and executive producers of The Secret of Secrets, with Cuse serving as showrunner. Production is slated to kick off this fall in Prague.
Production is officially slated to kick off this fall on location in Prague.
Spector is currently starring in HBO’s hit period drama The Gilded Age, sparking immediate questions from fans about whether this new gig means a departure from the series. Fortunately, sources indicate that with proper scheduling, he can juggle both projects seamlessly, assuming The Gilded Age lands a fifth season.
The Robert Langdon Franchise
When The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003, it became an absolute global phenomenon. Even though it was technically the second novel in the series after Angels & Demons, it felt like you couldn’t go anywhere without seeing multiple people reading it.
Naturally, Hollywood came calling. Tom Hanks famously brought the character to life in the massive film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, later returning for Angels & Demons and Inferno. While critics haven’t always been kind to the film trilogy, I do enjoy it on a guilty pleasure level. They remain an incredibly fun watch, largely thanks to Hanks’ delightfully bewildered energy as he bounces from one cryptic clue to the next.
This Netflix project marks the second major attempt to bring Brown’s universe to the small screen. A television series based on The Lost Symbol was adapted by Peacock in 2021, but it only ran for a single season. Here’s hoping The Secret of Secrets is shaping up to be the franchise reset fans have been waiting for.
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