The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code threequel) - New, Rumors, Cast, Etc.
04-21-09, 01:13 PM
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The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code threequel) - New, Rumors, Cast, Etc.
Columbia moves on 'Symbol'
Studio gets ball rolling with third 'Da Vinci' pic
By MICHAEL FLEMING
While Columbia Pictures is prepping for the May 15 release of Ron Howard’s Tom Hanks starrer "Angels and Demons," the studio will move quickly on the third pic in the franchise.
Author Dan Brown has announced that his next installment in the "Da Vinci Code" series will be "The Lost Symbol," which Doubleday will publish in the U.S. and Canada on Sept. 15. The first print run will be a whopping 5 million copies. Much more than that will be needed if the sales of "Angels and Demons" and "Da Vinci Code" are anything to go by.
"Angels and Demons" has sold 39 million copies to date, and that number is certain to go up following the book’s recent reemergence on the New York Times bestseller list in anticipation of the film’s release. Those sales lag behind "The Da Vinci Code," whose 81 million copies sold puts it behind the Bible but not much else.
Sources said Brown has completed his manuscript. Sony has the rights to the Robert Langdon character, which gives the studio the right to negotiate a deal for the new title. The studio will be bullish. "The Da Vinci Code" grossed $758 million worldwide in 2006, and Columbia has high hopes for the sequel produced by Imagine topper Brian Grazer and John Calley. Brown is exec producer.
The announcement was made by Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Studio gets ball rolling with third 'Da Vinci' pic
By MICHAEL FLEMING
While Columbia Pictures is prepping for the May 15 release of Ron Howard’s Tom Hanks starrer "Angels and Demons," the studio will move quickly on the third pic in the franchise.
Author Dan Brown has announced that his next installment in the "Da Vinci Code" series will be "The Lost Symbol," which Doubleday will publish in the U.S. and Canada on Sept. 15. The first print run will be a whopping 5 million copies. Much more than that will be needed if the sales of "Angels and Demons" and "Da Vinci Code" are anything to go by.
"Angels and Demons" has sold 39 million copies to date, and that number is certain to go up following the book’s recent reemergence on the New York Times bestseller list in anticipation of the film’s release. Those sales lag behind "The Da Vinci Code," whose 81 million copies sold puts it behind the Bible but not much else.
Sources said Brown has completed his manuscript. Sony has the rights to the Robert Langdon character, which gives the studio the right to negotiate a deal for the new title. The studio will be bullish. "The Da Vinci Code" grossed $758 million worldwide in 2006, and Columbia has high hopes for the sequel produced by Imagine topper Brian Grazer and John Calley. Brown is exec producer.
The announcement was made by Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
04-21-09, 01:16 PM
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I'm sure this won't take long to get off the ground if Angels and Demons is a hit, which many are assuming it will be.
04-21-09, 01:26 PM
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it'll be a hit. tom hanks with ron howard, plus the success of the last one = box office hit.
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Looking forward to it. I read through both books and saw the movie and enjoyed the hell out of them.
for the term "threequel." A third sequel is still a sequel.
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Columbia finds 'Symbol'
Knight to adapt third book in 'Da Vinci Code' series
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Columbia Pictures is moving forward with "The Lost Symbol" -- the third pic in the "Da Vinci Code" franchise -- and has tapped British scribe Steven Knight to adapt.
Based on the Dan Brown thriller of the same name, "Lost Symbol" finds protag Robert Langdon summoned to Washington, D.C., where he begins decoding the symbols of the Freemasons.
Tom Hanks, who played Langdon in "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons," has not yet committed to reprise the role, though he is expected to. Imagine topper Brian Grazer and John Calley have signed on to produce the latest installment.
Though "The Da Vinci Code" grossed $758 million worldwide in 2006, "Angels and Demons" fell short of that mark last year with a $486 million worldwide haul.
Still, the studio has high hopes for "Lost Symbol," which was a mammoth bestseller last year. The Doubleday book sold more than 1 million copies its first day in print in September.
Sony was eager to work with Knight again after acquiring the scribe's screenplay "Pawn Sacrifice" last year.
That project, which centers on American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky, is being produced by Tobey Maguire.
Knight, whose credits include "Dirty Pretty Things," also penned drafts of two upcoming pics: Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." He is repped by CAA.
Knight to adapt third book in 'Da Vinci Code' series
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Columbia Pictures is moving forward with "The Lost Symbol" -- the third pic in the "Da Vinci Code" franchise -- and has tapped British scribe Steven Knight to adapt.
Based on the Dan Brown thriller of the same name, "Lost Symbol" finds protag Robert Langdon summoned to Washington, D.C., where he begins decoding the symbols of the Freemasons.
Tom Hanks, who played Langdon in "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons," has not yet committed to reprise the role, though he is expected to. Imagine topper Brian Grazer and John Calley have signed on to produce the latest installment.
Though "The Da Vinci Code" grossed $758 million worldwide in 2006, "Angels and Demons" fell short of that mark last year with a $486 million worldwide haul.
Still, the studio has high hopes for "Lost Symbol," which was a mammoth bestseller last year. The Doubleday book sold more than 1 million copies its first day in print in September.
Sony was eager to work with Knight again after acquiring the scribe's screenplay "Pawn Sacrifice" last year.
That project, which centers on American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky, is being produced by Tobey Maguire.
Knight, whose credits include "Dirty Pretty Things," also penned drafts of two upcoming pics: Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." He is repped by CAA.
