Dan Brown: The Lost Symbol

[Sylph]

[darraholic]

Not surprising. I really wasn't a fan of the book. I'd really love to see Deception Point made into a movie. It's probably my favorite of the books. I'd also take Digital Fortress over The Lost Symbol.

[Sylph]

I kind of am: first, that it will be made, second, that Dan Brown is writing the script, that will be a calamity, I expect.

And I find his books utter trash, he just doesn't know how to write.

[quartermainefan]

These books don't translate well into movies. Da Vinci code was a real page turner but part of the appeal were the riddles and puzzles that you could stop reading for a moment and think about what the secret was, or trying to picture these famous paintings in your head and envisioning the brilliant hiding in plain site. With a movie, they can't stop to give me 3 minutes to see if I can go "a ha!" so they just have Tom Hanks solve these puzzles in his head. Well, I can't see inside his head and I don't see that as being as much fun.

[darraholic]

Tom Hanks was bad casting.

[WTGH]

I liked Deception Point, but it's too Sci-Fi/Geek/Nerdy to translate well on film. If it's dumbed down it could work.

IA that Hanks is a bad choice. For some reason, I always imagined Robert Redford as Langdon (too old, I know).