Ron Howard - who directed all three movies - clearly took criticisms of the first movie to heart too, and ensured the sequel moved at a quicker pace and didn't get overly bogged down in exposition. Here's the franchise in chronological order, covering the spin-off show The Lost Symboland Da Vinci Code movie franchise.Īngels & Demons was actually the first novel in Dan Brown's book series but was reworked to be a sequel following the success of the first installment of The Da Vinci Code series. The TV show, which takes the action to Washington, D.C., and saw Langdon investigating the actions of the Freemasons and searching for his abducted friend and mentor (Eddie Izzard), has had middling to positive reviews (far better than the movies fared critically). But those plans were not entirely abandoned, with The Lost Symbol eventually making its way into a TV format, with some major changes, including moving its appearance in the timeline to be a prequel to Da Vinci Code, including recasting Robert Langdon with a younger Ashley Zuckerman ( Succession, Fear Street). Director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks abandoned that plan, stating that the material went over too much of the same ground as The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, and opted to adapt the newer book in the franchise. While plans for a fourth Robert Langdon movie currently appear not to be on the cards, the original plans for the third installment, Inferno, were to adapt an entirely different Dan Brown book – The Lost Symbol. That said, there was a noticeable downturn in profit with each entry. None of The Da Vinci Code series - the Robert Langdon centered films and TV show - have received spectacular reviews by critics, but they've mostly been hits. Related: Langdon: Everything We Know About The Da Vinci Code Prequel And with the streaming wars in full force, it's not surprising that a move to television also happened for Dan Brown's hero Robert Langdon. Moviegoers clearly didn't mind as the movie grossed over $750 million worldwide and paved the way for a movie franchise. The same criticisms that dogged his books have also followed Dan Brown's movies, with a frequent source of complaints being how the narrative essentially stops dead every so often while characters can explain the plot. It was really only a matter of time until a movie was made, and Tom Hanks eventually stepped forward to play Robert Langdon in 2006's The Da Vinci Code.
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