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EXCLUSIVE: Railroad Daddy Morgan Spector is poised to win America’s Dad Tom Hanks arsenic Professor Robert Langdon. The Gilded Age prima is successful negotiations to header Netflix‘s bid adjustment of Dan Brown‘s latest novel, The Secret of Secrets, sources said. Rebecca Hall (The Town) is successful talks for nan female lead other Morgan successful nan bid from Brown and showrunner Carlton Cuse, I hear.
A rep for Netflix declined comment.
The casting does not mean a departure from HBO’sThe Gilded Age for Spector who stars arsenic instrumentality favourite railroad tycoon George Russell. According to sources, he would beryllium capable to do some bid pinch due scheduling should Gilded Age gets renewed for a 5th season. (Season 4 is expected to travel retired this fall.)
In The Secret of Secrets, symbologist Robert Langdon (Spector) races against ancient forces and clip to rescue his girlfriend, missing intelligence Katherine Solomon (Hall), and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries person nan powerfulness to everlastingly alteration humanity’s knowing of nan mind.
Brown and Cuse are co-creators, writers and executive producers, pinch Cuse serving arsenic showrunner. Emma Forman of Cuse’s Genre-Arts besides executive produces.
Filming is slated to statesman this autumn successful Prague wherever nan book is set.
Published by Doubleday successful September, The Secrets of Secrets is nan sixth book successful Brown’s Robert Langdon bid pursuing Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). Fueled by nan monolithic worldwide occurrence of The Da Vinci Code, Brown’s novels person sold complete 250 cardinal copies successful 56 languages.
Three of nan novels person been adapted into features starring Hanks arsenic Langdon and directed by Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code (2006), Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016), which person grossed mixed $2.24 cardinal worldwide (adjusted successful 2025 dollars). A fourth, The Lost Symbol, was turned into a 2021 Peacock bid pinch Ashley Zukerman arsenic a younger type of Langdon. It ran for 1 season.
This would people a return to Netflix for Spector who precocious recurred connected nan streamer’s constricted bid Black Rabbit. Hall is coming disconnected Ryan Murphy’s FX bid The Beauty.
