A brand-new trailer has dropped for the new Peacock streaming series based on Dan Brown’s hit book series starring Robert Langdon. During a virtual upfront presentation this past week, NBCUniversal featured a preview of The Lost Symbol, which was shot under the working title of Dan Brown’s Langdon. The series, written by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, stars Ashley Zukerman as Robert Langdon, the character popularized by Tom Hanks in the film series directed by Ron Howard. Check out the trailer above.
The trailer opens with Robert Langdon (Zukerman) giving a lecture to a group of students in a small classroom, discussing the extranatural powers ascribed to certain symbols, finishing on the ominious question, “At what point, though, do benign symbols become malignant?” It then cuts between scenes of Langdon taking mysterious phone calls that tell him he must solve the puzzle of a mysterious death in the rotunda of the US Capitol Building. It only shows about a minute and forty-five seconds of footage but definitely promises tons of action and intrigue across the series.
The Lost Symbol will delve into Langdon’s early adventures, before the events of The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno. Langdon, a professor of symbology at Harvard University, must use his skills and knowledge to “solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.”
We recently wrote about the series when it was in development under the title Dan Brown’s Langdon, and I’m very relieved at the title change. Though the original title gets the point across, it wasn’t the most exciting name for a television series. But by calling it The Lost Symbol the series more clearly connects to the Brown novel of the same name, which was the third book in the Langdon series and published in 2009.
The Lost Symbol currently has no release date planned but will stream exclusively on Peacock. It will also star comic legend Eddie Izzard as Langdon’s mentor as well as Valorie Curry (The Following), Sumalee Montano (Star Trek: Picard), and Rick Gonzalez (Arrow).
