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EXCLUSIVE: Railroad Daddy Morgan Spector is poised to succeed America’s Dad Tom Hanks as Professor Robert Langdon. The Gilded Age star is in negotiations to headline Netflix‘s series adaptation of Dan Brown‘s latest novel, The Secret of Secrets, is in talks for the female lead opposite Morgan in the series from Brown and showrunner Carlton Cuse, I hear
A rep for Netflix declined comment
The casting does not mean a departure from HBO’s The Gilded Age for Spector who stars as fan favorite railroad tycoon George Russell. According to should Gilded Age get renewed for a fifth season. (Season 4 is expected to come out this fall.)
In The Secret of Secrets,symbologist Robert Langdon (Spector) races against ancient forces and time to rescue his girlfriend, missing scientist Katherine Solomon (Hall), and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind
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If the deals come to fruition, this would mark the first TV series acting collaboration for real-life couple Spector and Hall who have starred together in a couple of plays and movies, including the Broadway revival of Machinal,Christineand Permission
Brown and Cuse are co-creators, writers and executive producers of The Secret of Secrets, 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 the book is set
Three of the novels have been adapted into features starring Hanks as Langdon and directed by Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code(2006), Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016), which have grossed combined $2.24 billion worldwide (adjusted in 2025 dollars). A fourth, The Lost Symbol,was turned into a 2021 Peacock series with Ashley Zukerman as a younger version of Langdon. It ran for one season
This would mark a return to Netflix for Spector who recently recurred on the streamer’s limited series Black Rabbit. Hall is coming off Ryan Murphy’s FX series The Beauty
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