What The Lost Symbol is aiming for is the foundation of who Langdon will become. “We wanted to leave space for the other characters to excel, and he actually struggles a lot.”īut that doesn’t mean the Langdon that readers and fans love isn’t in the series, streaming on Paramount+ in Australia. From the beginning, we really didn’t want him to be a superhero. So, he’s challenged constantly and there’s obstacle after obstacle. “He is armed with certain skills but none of those skills prepared him for what he’s about to experience. Zukerman says his character is a sheltered academic whose one skill is he knows a lot of things, but he’s not exactly a pro at real-life sleuthing or taking down bad guys. The Lost Symbol’s Langdon is much less adept at heroics. We’ll lean on everyone’s love of the character. I think the fans will see that the Robert Langdon we’ve built and the show we’ve built is something that will lead to the character that they love. “Because it’s an origin story, there’s some distance between us and the films and the books. So, this is a younger Langdon who, unlike in the timeline of Brown’s books, hasn’t yet chased any melanin-challenged monks through the Louvre or discovered the agenda of the Illuminati. Rather, the TV version has retooled the character so the series serves as an origin story. The Lost Symbol reframes Dan Brown’s novel as an origin story for Robert Langdon. Zukerman says he hasn’t felt that pressure of stepping into such a devoted fanbase, probably because he hasn’t had the time with five weeks of production still left to go in the first season of the mystery thriller based on Brown’s 2005 novel. It’s really nice to work on something that people already have a connection with.” “There are all these great shows, and great minds making these shows, and sometimes no one sees them because they get lost. “It’s really nice to work on something that’s meaningful to a lot of people, and I think they will be happy with it,” Zukerman told. That’s tens of millions of fans who have voraciously consumed every pulsating word, infused with purpose, riddles and thrills. The Australian-American actor first attracted widespread attention in Melbourne-filmed cop show Rush before going on to be part of The Pacific, Underbelly: Squizzy and American series Manhattan, Designated Survivor and Succession.īut Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol will be his most high-profile project yet, taking on a role that has been previously played by Tom Hanks, three times – that of Robert Langdon, the symbologist hero in Dan Brown’s books which have sold over 120 million copies. You can become overwhelmed with the pressure of the task, of meeting the expectations of heavily invested fans, or you could lean into that existing fandom. Taking on a character that’s familiar and beloved to so many people can go two ways.

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