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one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation. A disturbing object–artfully encoded with five symbols–is discovered in the Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.Īs the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling–a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths. What is it about? Here is the official story description from the book: In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer.
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The New York Times praised the book as being "impossible to put down" and claimed Brown is "bringing sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead", but Newsweek called the book "contrived", claimin that it was necessary to swallow a lot of coincidences, to get through the book.
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The book sold over one million copies on September 15th, 2009,the first day of release, making it the fastest selling adult novel in history. Although, it is expected that they will (big paycheck). Tom Hanks, who played Langdon in the previous film installments, has not yet signed on to reprise the role, and neither has director Ron Howard. The film franchise already accounts for over $1.24 billion in worldwide box office. The third adventure is a 12-hour race to the finish quest set in Washington, DC, following mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon unravel Freemason conspiracy theories using hidden codes. The studio has hired Steven Knight, whose credits include Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things, who also penned drafts of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
SEQUEL TO THE DA VINCI CODE CODE
After audiences flocked to the first Robert Langdon story, the studio greenlit its predecessor, and Angels did well at the box office, as well.Columbia Picturres has finally decided to step up development of the big screen adaptation of Dan Brown's latest book, and Da Vinci Code sequel The Lost Symbol. In the book sense, Angels came before Da Vinci, but Ron Howard and Sony chose to start with Da Vinci because that novel was a global sensation. These stories have been told out of order before. So it sounds like, even in Inferno is a huge hit, the idea of Tom Hanks and Ron Howard going back to adapt The Lost Symbol is a non-starter, because the plot and themes are too similar to what the duo did in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. The good news is contractually, we don't have to. We have no idea if it's going to come down the pike - if we're going to want to jump on it or not. But, Dan Brown, who is very secretive, is working on another one. We had to say that we don't quite think there is something to truly hang on. and the question of the Masons was very reminiscent of the theoretical dilemmas of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. That was interesting because we actually worked on for a while to see if there was something, and at the end of the day, Washington, D.C. Luckily, I was able to sit down with Tom Hanks in Florence, Italy to discuss Inferno and his work on this fast-moving franchise, and when it comes to The Lost Symbol, he told me: