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It’s official: Morgan Spector (Black Rabbit, The Gilded Age), has closed a woody to lead Netflix‘s bid adjustment of The Secret of Secrets mystery thriller caller by Dan Brown, which comes from nan bestselling writer and Carlton Cuse (Lost, Five Days At Memorial). Spector will play Robert Langdon, taking complete nan domiciled played connected nan large surface by Tom Hanks.
Langdon is simply a Harvard professor and world-renowned symbologist whose eidetic representation and puzzle-solving abilities thief him unravel mysteries astatine nan intersection of subject and spirituality. As Deadline reported earlier this month, Rebecca Hall is poised to play nan female lead successful nan series.
Per nan aforesaid report, Morgan’s casting does not mean a departure from HBO’s The Gilded Age where he stars arsenic instrumentality favourite railroad tycoon George Russell. Morgan would beryllium capable to do some bid pinch due scheduling should Gilded Age get renewed for a 5th season. (Season 4 is expected to travel retired this fall.)
The as-yet untitled bid adjustment is said to blend futuristic subject pinch mysterious lore. In the The Secret of Secrets novel, Robert Langdon (Spector) races against ancient forces and clip to rescue his girlfriend, missing intelligence and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries person nan powerfulness to everlastingly alteration humanity’s knowing of nan mind.
Cuse and Brown are co-creators, and executive producers of nan bid adaptation, pinch Cuse serving arsenic writer and showrunner. Emma Forman of Cuse’s Genre-Arts besides executive produces nan task pinch Zoe Robyn, which landed astatine Netflix successful May 2025 with a straight-to-series order.
“Morgan is simply a genuinely awesome character whose activity is ever filled pinch intelligence, thoughtfulness and humanity,” said Cuse connected what makes Morgan nan correct personification this domiciled and circumstantial story. “He’s nan cleanable fresh for Robert Langdon — a superb world whose curiosity, intelligence and intellect are nan devices of his trade.”
The Secret of Secrets was published by Doubleday connected September 9, 2025.
