NBC’s streaming arm Peacock recently dropped the first official teaser trailer for its upcoming original series, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.
The Peacock original is based on the book by the same author, celebrated for The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.
The Lost Symbol still doesn’t have any official release date announced.
Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon novels, which began in 2000 with Angels & Demons, are one of the best-selling adult book series of all time.
One of which was The Lost Symbol, having sold a million copies on its first day of publication.
Tom Hanks translated this success on the big screen, playing the main protagonist, Robert Langdon.
In Brown’s version of the story, The Lost Symbol is both the third book published and the third chronologically, taking place after the events of Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code.
However, the Peacock series will be changing that timeline up, setting the events of The Lost Symbol as a prequel to the other stories and featuring a younger version of Langdon as a result.
Langdon goes from lecturer to investigator as he ponders what the unnamed criminal mastermind desires.
As for what Langdon does know, the criminal wants him “to locate an ancient portal buried within the capital and unlock it,” which he explains in the trailer.
Is Langdon able to predict his foes’ actions to save his mentor (and maybe the world), or will his symbology expertise and historical knowledge leave him endlessly two steps behind?
Given the trailer’s perfect combination of suspense, artifactual trivia, and drama, the show seems destined to follow in its cinematic predecessors’ footsteps.
Earlier in March 2020, it was announced that Ashley Zukerman has been cast to portray Robert Langdon. In June 2020, it was disclosed that Valorie Curry and Eddie Izzard had been cast as Katherine and Peter Solomon.
About The Lost Symbol
The Lost Symbol is an Peacock Original series based on the bestselling author Dan Brown’s 2009 novel written of the same name. The project is executive-produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer who have previously worked on big screen adaptations of Brown’s other books — The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno — with Tom Hanks in the main role.
The book, The Lost Symbol, is a thriller set in Washington, D.C., after the events of The Da Vinci Code. The Peacock series will be changing the novels’ timeline up, setting the events of The Lost Symbol as a prequel to the other stories and featuring a younger version of Langdon, played by Ashley Zukerman.
Langdon who is invited into an ancient Masonic scavenger hunt across Washington, D.C., when his mentor, Peter Solomon, is kidnapped. As in the book, the show could be relying on Freemasonry for both its recurring theme and its major characters.
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