Netflix‘s upcoming, high-stakes, thrilling adaptation of a best-selling novel is essentially Indiana Jones meets Jack Ryan, and it couldn’t come at a better time. As characters like Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan have proven — whether on the page, in video games, on the small screen, or on the big screen, played by John Krasinski, Alec Baldwin, or even Ford himself — there’s something timeless about a seemingly everyday historian, professor, or desk-bound analyst becoming a globe-trotting, world-saving hero, hunting down historical artifacts or unraveling dangerous political conspiracies (sometimes, even both).
So far, Netflix has had plenty of success in the thriller genre, with shows like The Night Agent, Black Doves, Bodyguard, and The Diplomat all proving to be worthy additions. Still, Netflix has yet to find a lead as iconic as Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan, or even Prime Video’s Jack Reacher, a character so well-known and beloved that viewers are willing to tune in based on their name alone. That could be about to change, however, as Netflix dips its toes into the multi-million-selling adventurous and dangerous world created by author Dan Brown.
Currently filming on location in Prague, Netflix is set to bring one of Brown’s unadapted and most experimental novels to the small screen: The Secret of Secrets. It’s a gamble, but one that will hopefully pay off, with the series led by Dan Brown himself and visionary writer and producer Carlton Cuse, whose credits include Lost, Bates Motel, Locke & Key, and, as it so happens, Jack Ryan.
Netflix’s The Secret Of Secrets Will Feature Everyone’s Favorite Symbol Expert
Following the Tom Hanks-led Robert Langdon film trilogy, which adapted Brown’s novels The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno (the first of which earned an impressive $800 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $125 million), Netflix is set to adapt Brown’s sixth and most recent Langdon-centric novel, The Secret of Secrets, in a currently untitled series. For over two decades, Langdon has been a fan-favorite character, a smart, surprisingly brave symbology professor who often finds himself wrapped up in dangerous, ancient, and politically charged schemes. He’s basically a modern-day Indiana Jones, minus the hat and whip.
Brown’s sixth novel, The Secret of Secrets, follows Langdon as he travels to Prague with his current romantic partner and longtime friend, Katherine Solomon, herself a brilliant noetic scientist who also appeared in Brown’s third Robert Langdon novel, The Lost Symbol. The Secret of Secrets is one of Brown’s more futuristic stories, blending ancient religious symbolism and local history — Langdon needs a purpose in the story, of course — with complex philosophical and scientific musings about human intellect, what it means to be part of a shared consciousness, and our future as a species.
The show will star The Gilded Age‘s Morgan Spector as Langdon, and Rebecca Hall (Godzilla vs. Kong) will play Katherine Solomon. Though Langdon’s stories have done well enough as a trilogy on the big screen, the small screen format is actually perfect for Brown’s style. Each chapter is famously short and ends on a monumental cliffhanger, keeping readers hooked for hours and days. Netflix’s binge-watch model will work well for this; each episode could end on a similar cliffhanger, and viewers won’t even need to hit play to watch the next installment.
Robert Langdon’s Last TV Series Wasn’t A Huge Success
This won’t be the first time Robert Langdon appears in a TV series, however. In 2021, Peacock released The Lost Symbol, a prequel series to Tom Hanks’ tenure as Langdon. Unfortunately, the series, which was originally conceived as a pilot for NBC before moving over to Peacock for a full 10-episode season, didn’t last for more than one outing, despite solid performances by its leads: Ashley Zukerman, who played a young Robert Langdon; Eddie Izzard, who played Peter Solomon, Robert’s mentor; and Valorie Curry, who played Katherine Solomon.
The show earned a mere 60% critics’ score and a dismal 47% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It never quite reached the fast-paced heights of Brown’s best novels — in fact, it felt oddly slow for a show based on Langdon’s adventures — or made the story feel genuinely meaningful for the characters. Adaptations are always hard to crack, but sadly, The Lost Symbol fared worse than others, veering too far off course from the original story.
That doesn’t mean the same has to be true for Netflix’s upcoming Robert Langdon adaptation. With someone like Cuse at the helm, who has time and again proven his talent for crafting odd, mystical, ancient mysteries and leaving viewers in suspense, it might just be the perfect combination. Netflix may have finally found its very own iconic, unlikely action hero.
Netflix’s adaptation of The Secret of Secrets does not yet have a release date.
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Carlton Cuse
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Carlton Cuse
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Morgan Spector
Robert Langdon
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Corey Stoll
Everett Finch
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