Robert Langdon has generated enormous theatrical business without ever becoming a critical favorite. The Da Vinci Code turned Dan Brown’s religious-conspiracy phenomenon into a $760 million global hit, but its dense history, coded artwork, secret societies, and theological arguments were compressed into a film that earned only 25% on Rotten Tomatoes. Angels & Demons followed with $485.9 million, while Inferno fell to $220 million, ending Tom Hanks and Ron Howard’s three-film run.
Peacock later tried television with The Lost Symbol, casting Ashley Zukerman as a younger Langdon, but the ten-episode series lasted only one season. Netflix is therefore reviving a commercially proven franchise whose screen adaptations have repeatedly struggled to make Brown’s layered puzzles work within the chosen format.
The series is titled The Secret of Secrets, based on Dan Brown’s sixth Robert Langdon novel of the same name and his first installment since Origin in 2017. Co-creator and showrunner Carlton Cuse now says he is preparing to begin filming the eight-hour Netflix adaptation, while the search for the next Robert Langdon is close to completion. A new report from ScreenRant claimed Cuse expected the streamer to announce the actor who will succeed Hanks and Zukerman soon. Not long after, Deadline has now confirmed that The Gilded Age star Morgan Spector is in talks to play the iconic role originally portrayed by Hanks, with The Town‘s Rebecca Hall also attached to co-star.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
Netflix Seems To Be Building the Franchise Around a New Format
The update is that the project has moved beyond early development and its lead decision is nearly settled. This new Netflix adaptation, however, has a structural advantage the Hanks’ movies lacked, and that’s approximately eight hours to unpack the investigation.
The novel’s story begins in Prague, where Langdon attends a lecture by noetic scientist Katherine Solomon, now his romantic partner. Katherine is preparing to publish research about human consciousness that could destabilize established scientific and religious assumptions, but a murder interrupts the trip before she disappears with her manuscript. The resulting chase expands through Prague, London, and New York, combining encrypted history and mystical lore with neuroscience, consciousness research, and a conspiracy built around who controls transformative knowledge. That material suits Carlton Cuse, whose work on Lost depended on serialized clues, competing interpretations, and mysteries that widened as characters pursued answers.
The Secrets of Secrets does not currently have a release date, but is expected to begin filming in Prague this Fall. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
