According to some insiders, Ron Howard will not be directing Dan Brown‘s latest Robert Langdon adventure The Lost Symbol. He has directed and produced both of Sony Pictures’ films based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novels, The Da Vinci Code (in 2006) and Angels & Demons (2009). He is only looking to produce the film for Sony Pictures this time around, Â So Sony Pictures has started looking for a new helmer.
“Ron told Amy Pascal and Michael Lynton that he was not going to be directing Dan Brown’s novels anymore,” an insider tells me. “He just didn’t want to do that thing over and over, the same character and the same stories.”
Tom Hanks in the other side is still set to reprise his role in the film as the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon.
if you look at Howard’s box office track record as a director since his Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind (2001), the Dan Brown films were his most successful with such wide release movies as Missing, Cinderella Man, and The Dilemma all underperforming.
Not to mention, The Lost Symbol sold 1 million hardcovers and e-books in the U.S., the UK, and Canada on its first day, making it the fastest-selling adult novel in history.
[via deadline]
