
There are even some shows that offer tantalizing evidence of secret societies, global conspiracies, and unknown narratives just beneath the surface of history. Some feature globe-trotting thrills, where people seek buried treasure, while others offer mysteries that vacillate between the religious, logical, and supernatural. The Last Symbol offers adventure and excitement with a scholastic edge, and there is plenty of other shows for fans of the right amalgamation of intrigue, ancient history, and mysterious relics. The Lost Symbol is finally hitting the screen as a television show, but the book was originally going to be adapted as a movie.


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When his mentor goes missing, Langdon is forced to leave Harvard and solve a series of puzzles to keep him from harm, all the while getting closer to revealing a conspiracy that threatens to affect the entire world. The show will be directed by Ron Howard.Ī timeline for the series has yet to be announced.Dan Brown's symbologist Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman) returns in The Lost Symbol, a series that follows the scholarly hero as a young man prior to the events of The Da Vinci Code trilogy. 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.

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. Brown's website summarizes the book as such: Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation… one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. The Lost Symbol is set in Washington, D.C.Īnd as with many of Brown's books, it centers around Langdon cracking a historic code, this time it's "a disturbing object–artfully encoded with five symbols," which was found in the US Capitol Building.
