Morgan Spector in Talks to Play Netflix's Robert Langdon
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- Morgan Spector is in negotiations to star as symbologist Robert Langdon in Netflix's series adaptation of Dan Brown's "The Secret of Secrets," stepping into a role previously played by Tom Hanks across three feature films.
- Rebecca Hall is in talks for the female lead as Katherine Solomon, a missing scientist whose groundbreaking manuscript threatens to "forever change humanity's understanding of the mind."
- Dan Brown and Carlton Cuse are co-creators, writers, and executive producers on the series, with Cuse serving as showrunner; Emma Forman of Cuse's Genre-Arts also executive produces.
- Filming is slated to begin this fall in Prague, where Brown's sixth Langdon novel — published by Doubleday in September — is set.
- The Gilded Age is not expected to lose Spector: sources say he could do both series with proper scheduling should HBO renew the show for a fifth season (Season 4 comes out this fall).
- The Robert Langdon franchise has sold over 250 million copies in 56 languages, and the three Hanks/Ron Howard films ("The Da Vinci Code," "Angels & Demons," "Inferno") grossed a combined $2.24 billion worldwide adjusted to 2025 dollars.
- Peacock previously adapted a fourth Langdon novel, "The Lost Symbol," as a 2021 series starring Ashley Zukerman as a younger Langdon; it ran for one season.
Why it matters: Netflix is rebooting one of publishing's most lucrative thriller franchises — Brown's six books have sold 250 million copies, and the three prior Hanks films grossed $2.24 billion combined — as a streaming series rather than another tentpole movie. Splitting Spector between "The Gilded Age" and the Langdon project shows Netflix is willing to compete for prestige TV talent already committed to rivals.
