And so, we created new characters, new backstories, and new elements.”īeattie said finding the right alchemy of source material and new material really became its own puzzle. “But when you fill out 10 hours of storytelling, you have to fill in a lot of stuff. “Fans of the books will find there’s a couple of things in the book they will miss,” Dworkin shared.
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Grazer then brought in Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie (MTV’s Scream) to develop The Lost Symbol into a 10-hour limited streaming series for Peacock, which turns the tale into an origin story for Robert Langdon set before the cinematic adventures featuring Hanks.Īs is often the case with book-to-television adaptations, Dworkin says in crafting the story –– which has a much younger Langdon working with the CIA to decrypt a series of puzzles relating to the disappearance of his mentor –– they used the bones of the book to create the narrative skeleton of the season. We found it had more propulsion as a series.” “But the character was so strong that his journey warranted a series as opposed to a movie. “My friend Danny Strong did a pass,” Grazer said. While he confirmed the book –– which focuses on the mysteries of the Freemasons –– was in development for another film sequel, Grazer said they had a hard time cracking the narrative into a concise enough script. It was expected that Brown’s third Langdon novel, The Lost Symbol, would be the next adapted for the big screen, but today at the Peacock virtual Television Critics Association panel for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol series, executive producer Brian Grazer told reporters that another path presented itself.
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Author Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books have been global bestsellers for two decades, featuring five novels that have been adapted into three blockbuster films starring Tom Hanks as the Harvard symbologist who can crack just about any historical puzzle.
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