Luckily, they are — kind of. The Da Vinci Code is, but Angels & Demons is not. But before you start re-watching these films any way you can, first learn a bit about Inferno. In the new film, Langdon will face a brand new, non-Da Vinci themed threat. This time, instead of finding clues in the Mona Lisa, Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital, having no memory of why or how he got there. With a little help from a nice doctor (Felicity Jones), in an attempt to stop a world-wide plague meant to curb the Earth's population.
Sounds like a lot to ask of a history professor, if you ask me. But, Langdon isn't just any old Professor — he's done this before. If you want to check out Robert Langdon in action before you spend money on seeing Inferno on the big screen, you'll want to re-watch the first few movies, below. The Da Vinci Code. Angels & Demons, the follow up to The Da Vinci Code, is, unfortunately, not streaming on Netflix. The movie, which finds Langdon traveling in Rome to help the Pope when a group of cardinals are taken hostage by the Illuminati, is only available to rent on DVD via Netflix, but that doesn't mean it's not available via other streaming services. Angels & Demons is and iTunes ($3.99).
Of course, if you're really in the mood for some Dan Brown, you can always check out the original book series, which includes The Lost Symbol, a 2009 novel that has not yet been adapted into a movie. Images: Sony Pictures; /tumblr; /tumblr; /tumblr.
With next month’s Inferno, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks will have adapted three of the four existing novels in Dan Brown‘s Robert Langdon series, which hit peak popularity 2003’s The Da Vinci Code. But lest you worry they’ll run out of material, Brown has another Robert Langdon book is on the way. Origin, his fifth novel about Harvard symbologist Langdon, will hit shelves in fall 2017. Brown’s publisher Knopf Doubleday announced the new Da Vinci Code sequel novel released this week. The book will hit physical and digital shelves in the U.S. And Canada on September 26, 2017. The official description offers its own mystery, by which I mean it reveals basically nothing.
In keeping with his trademark style, Brown interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them. Codes, science, religion, history, art and architecture — yup, sounds like a Robert Langdon mystery, all right. But beyond that, the description is impossibly vague. So could the title hold some clues? Might Origin be an origin story? Or is the title perhaps referring to the origin of life?