Awesome! I’ve always wanted to attend a Dan Brown book signing but he never comes to town. Granted, he doesn’t have the most sophisticated writing style but his clever combination of facts and fictions is always filled with cliffhangers, you’d lose your sleep just trying to finish his book, wondering what’s gonna happen next as you turn the pages. Back in spring of last year it was announced that a third Robert Langdon movie will happen based on the new book THE LOST SYMBOL and now Variety said Columbia Pictures has hired scribe Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) to pen the adaptation…
This isn’t a bad decision in my opinion because Akiva Goldman’s adaptation of The Da Vinci Code was weak and eventhough Angels & Demons was thrilling, it didn’t have much character introduction or development. Now I haven’t finished reading THE LOST SYMBOL yet but after Peter Jackson ruined The Lovely Bones last fall, it’s clear to me that it’s tough to give an adaptation that’s truly faithful, but it’s not impossible, as scribe Joe Penhall showed us with the Cormac McCarthy beautiful adaptation, The Road.
Tom Hanks hasn’t fully signed on to reprise his role as Robert Langdon but we can expect him and director Ron Howard to return to this project which is being produced once again by Brian Grazer and John Calley
Here’s the official synopsis of 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. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling — a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown’s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object — artfully encoded with five symbols — is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
When Langdon’s beloved mentor, Peter Solomon — a prominent Mason and philanthropist — is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations — all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.
As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Dan Brown’s novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown’s fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.
