Author Dan Brown is to adapt his own novel THE LOST SYMBOL for the big screen. The book once again features Robert Langdon as the main protagonist, and is the latest in the series which started with ANGELS AND DEMONS and THE DA VINCI CODE. Upon it’s release in 2009, The Lost Symbol sold a staggering 1 million copies in its first day, and remained at the top of the bestseller’s list for six weeks. It is also the fastest selling adult novel of all time.
Here’s the synopsis: The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom.When Langdons mentor, Peter Solomon prominent mason and philanthropist is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friends life is to accept this mysterious summons.It is to take him on a breathless chase through Washingtons dark history. All that was familiar is changed into a shadowy, mythical world in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.
Brown has been hired by Columbia Pictures to pen the screenplay, but the project does not yet have the commitement of ‘A&D’ and ‘Da Vinci’ director Ron Howard (who is busy adapting Stephen King’s The Dark Tower), or Tom Hanks, who portrayed Langdon in the first two movies.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
