

This will be regarded in the future as a bad move.

The Lost Symbol on Peacock is the first time anyone has tried to stretch one of Brown's books into a television series. The international locations and cheesy thrills of the series lend themselves easily to adaptation, and three of the five ( The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno) have appeared on the big screen in zippy, fast-moving films starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. "All five of them adhere to the same formula, wherein Langdon, a middle-aged Harvard professor of 'symbology,' gets wrapped up in an age-old conspiracy involving a secret society and must follow historical clues hidden in famous landmarks or artworks to solve a mystery with his attractive lady sidekick before a zealot of some form or another murders him. "Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books aren't complicated," says Alexis Need of the Peacock drama starring Ashley Zukerman as Langdon.
