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Robert Langdon (franchise)
The ''Robert Langdon'' franchise consists of American action-adventure mystery- thriller installments, including three theatrical films directed by Ron Howard, and a television series. The films, based on the novel series written by Dan Brown, center on the fictional character of Robert Langdon. Though based on the book series, the films have a different chronological order, consisting of: ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2006), ''Angels & Demons'' (2009) and '' Inferno'' (2016), all starring Tom Hanks as Langdon, alongside different ensemble casts. Despite mixed-to-negative critical reception, the films are considered box office successes, having a combined gross total of $1.5 billion worldwide. The television series, a contemporary-prequel titled '' The Lost Symbol'' (2021), starring Ashley Zukerman as Langdon, explores the early years of Langdon's career. Development Dan Brown's novels about Professor Robert Langdon: ''Angels & Demons'' (2000), ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003) and '' Infe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard started his career as a child actor before transitioning to directing films. Over his six-decade career, Howard has received List of awards and nominations received by Ron Howard, multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in film and television. Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, acting in several television series before gaining national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show), Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom ''The Andy Griffith Show'' from 1960 through 1968. During this time, he also appeared in the musical film ''The Music Man (1962 film), The Music Man'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Da Vinci Code (film)
''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name. The first in the ''Robert Langdon'' film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno, and Paul Bettany. In the film, Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology from Harvard University, is the prime suspect in the grisly and unusual murder of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière. On the body, the police find a disconcerting cipher and start an investigation. Langdon escapes with the assistance of police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, and they begin a quest for the legendary Holy Grail. Sir Leigh Teabing, a noted British Grail historian, tells them that the actual Holy Grail is explicitly encoded in Leonardo da Vinci's wall painting '' The Last Supper''. Also searching for the Grail is a secret cabal within Opus Dei, an actual prelature of the Holy See, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Koepp
David Koepp (; born June 9, 1963) is an American screenwriter and director. He is the fourth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.6 billion. Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres. Some of his best-known screenplays include the Steven Spielberg-directed ''Jurassic Park'' (1993), '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997), '' War of the Worlds'' (2005) and ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' (2008). Other works include the crime film '' Carlito's Way'' (1993); the action spy films '' Mission: Impossible'' (1996) and '' Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'' (2014); the superhero film ''Spider-Man'' (2002); and another ''Indiana Jones'' film, '' The Dial of Destiny'' (2023). Koepp has also directed seven feature films over the course of his career: '' The Trigger Effect'' (1996), '' Stir of Echoes'' (1999), '' Secret Window'' (2004), ''Ghost Town'' (2008), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Grazer
Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer. He founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard. The films they produced have grossed over $15 billion. Grazer was personally nominated for four Academy Awards for '' Splash'' (1984), ''Apollo 13'' (1995), '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), and '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008). His films and TV series have been nominated for 47 Academy Awards and 217 Emmy Awards. In 2002, Grazer won an Oscar for Best Picture for ''A Beautiful Mind'' (shared with Ron Howard). In 2007, he was named one of ''Time''s " 100 Most Influential People in the World". Early life Grazer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Arlene Becker Grazer and criminal defense attorney Thomas Grazer. He is the older brother of Nora Beth Grazer (b. 1952) and actor/director Gavin Grazer (b. 1961). He was raised in Sherman Oaks and Northridge, in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley. Grazer's father was Catholic and his mother is Jewish. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Calley
John Nicholas Calley (July 8, 1930 – September 13, 2011) was an American film studio executive and producer. He was quite influential during his years at Warner Bros., where he worked from 1968 to 1981, and "produced a film a month, on average, including commercial successes like ''The Exorcist'' and ''Superman''." During his seven years at Sony Pictures starting in 1996, for five of which he was chairman and chief executive, he was credited with "reinvigorat ng that major film studio. Awards and nominations Together with Mike Nichols and Ismail Merchant, Calley produced 1993's '' The Remains of the Day'', for which the trio received an Oscar nomination—Calley's only such Best Picture nomination. A best picture nomination Calley potentially missed was when, as Sony's new head, he nixed the studio's backing of Terrence Malick's 1998 film '' The Thin Red Line'', reportedly because he thought Malick couldn't keep to the budget. (The film stayed on budget and received seven Acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes ''The Client (1994 film), The Client''; ''Batman Forever'' and its sequel ''Batman & Robin (film), Batman & Robin''; ''I, Robot (film), I, Robot''; ''I Am Legend (film), I Am Legend''; ''Cinderella Man'', and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited. He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series ''Fringe (TV series), Fringe''. In 2002, Goldsman received the Academy Awards, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, Best Screenplay for the 2001 film ''A Beautiful Mind (film), A Beautiful Mind'', which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with ''A Beautiful Mind'' director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel ''The Da Vinci Code'' for Howard's The Da Vinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inferno (Brown Novel)
''Inferno'' is a 2013 Mystery fiction, mystery Thriller (genre), thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon (book series), ''Robert Langdon'' series, following ''Angels & Demons'', ''The Da Vinci Code'' and ''The Lost Symbol''. The book was published on May 14, 2013, ten years after publication of ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday. It was number one on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release. A Inferno (2016 film), film adaptation was released in the United States on October 28, 2016. Plot Harvard symbolism professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, Italy, with a head wound and amnesia, no memory of the last few days. Dr. Sienna Brooks, one of the doctors tending to him, reveals that he is suffering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Da Vinci Code
''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is “the best-selling American novel of all time.” Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon—the first was his 2000 novel '' Angels & Demons''—''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris entangles them in a dispute between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's '' The Templar Revelation'' (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982), although Brown stated that it was not used as research material. ''The Da Vinci Code'' provoked a popular inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels & Demons
''Angels & Demons'' is a 2000 bestselling mystery- thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books and then by Corgi Books. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who recurs as the protagonist of Brown's subsequent novels. ''Angels & Demons'' shares many stylistic literary elements with its sequels, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church. Ancient history, architecture, and symbology are also heavily referenced throughout the book. A film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009. Background The book contains several ambigrams created by real-life typographer John Langdon."Angels & Demons" . www.johnlangdon.net. Retrieved August 26, 2013. Besides the "Angels & Demons" and " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Zukerman
Ashley Zukerman is an American-born Australian actor. In Australia, he became known for playing Senior Constable Michael Sandrelli in the drama series ''Rush'' (2008), and Jesse Banks in the political thriller '' The Code'', for which he received an AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama in 2014. He played Dr. Charlie Isaacs on WGN America's ''Manhattan'' (2014-5), and had a recurring role in ''Succession''. In 2021, he portrayed Robert Langdon in the TV series adaptation of Dan Brown's ''The Lost Symbol''. Early life and education Ashley Zukerman was born in Santa Monica, California, and moved to Melbourne with his family when he was two. His father, Moshe, is from Israel and his mother, Ingrid, is from Peru. His family is Jewish; his parents spoke Hebrew during his childhood. He is the older brother of '' Science Vs.'' podcaster Wendy Zukerman. He attended Wesley College at the Glen Waverley campus and began a degree in Science and Engineering at Monas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Symbol (TV Series)
''Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol'', or simply ''The Lost Symbol'', is an American action adventure mystery thriller television series based on the 2009 novel ''The Lost Symbol'' by Dan Brown. The series is a prequel to the ''Robert Langdon'' film series and features Ashley Zukerman as symbologist Robert Langdon. It also stars Eddie Izzard, Beau Knapp, Rick Gonzalez, Valorie Curry and Sumalee Montano in main roles. The series, consisting of ten episodes, premiered on September 16, 2021, on Peacock. In January 2022, the series was cancelled after one season. Plot A young Robert Langdon is recruited by the CIA to help solve a number of deadly puzzles when his mentor goes missing. Cast Main * Ashley Zukerman as Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology * Eddie Izzard as Peter Solomon, Langdon's academic mentor * Valorie Curry as Dr Katherine Solomon, Peter's daughter and noetic scientist * Beau Knapp as Mal'akh, a mysterious antagonist * Rick Gonzalez as Alfonso Nuñez, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary History
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity. Contemporary history is politically dominated by the Cold War (1947–1991) between the Western Bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union. The confrontation spurred fears of a nuclear war. An all-out "hot" war was avoided, but both sides intervened in the internal politics of smaller nations in their bid for global influence and via proxy wars. The Cold War ultimately ended with the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter stages and aftermath of the Cold War enabled the democratization of much of Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Decolonization was another important trend in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa as new states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
