Why no lost symbol

I have to disagree. I think Lost Symbol is the most boring one of the Langdon series. I usually don't forget the story of a book I read but about a year after I had no idea what Lost Symbol was about.

Now that the movie is finally made and it was a bit of drama getting the whole thing together, I think they decided to make this series a trilogy and call it a day and decided Inferno served as a better final act to the series.

"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"

i better like if they make deception point or digital forest as movies cause its not like any religious concept

I wondered the same thing, Lost Symbol was my favorite Langdon story. I don't know why they aren't doing Lost Symbol.

The producers felt that the movie was too much like National Treasure so it was scrapped. I hope they do make it though, the story is pretty amazing. The sad thing about the movie adaptations is that they dramatise the action more than the story itself.

The Lost Symbol is a dissapointing book.

Readers of The Lost Symbol should be able to recognize some of the problems with transforming it into a film. As anyone who has ever been involved with filming locations in the city knows, Washington DC is one of the toughest places on earth to shoot in, with miserable traffic, security, permitting, and other challenges. Also, at the present time, the US Capitol is covered in scaffolding as part of a major restoration project of the building's dome. That is a visual hurdle for the story, as the Capitol is central to the book's opening chapters. But that could easily be remedied with some CGI work, or just by waiting until the contractors finish.

More challenging is the story itself, which has bedeviled several scripters so far, including Brown himself. Extended portions of the plot take place in total darkness - not exactly visually exciting for a multi-million dollar picture. That could be changed and solved. But tougher to deal with is Brown's central plot point: that if the American public saw a Youtube video of high-ranking elected federal officials and other government bigwigs actually engaging in creepy Masonic ritual, (especially the ultra-secret 33rd degree!) it would shake the country to its very core, and maybe even cause a national crisis. Exclamation point.

Hardly.

Actually, it's a shame for us Masons, because the underlying message of the book is that we're really a pretty decent and admirable little clot of men, all the way through the story. And one of the characters at the end of the novel recounts an explanation of the "lost word" that is truly more nuanced, symbolic, and satisfying than what we actually impart in our rituals. If made eventually, I continue to believe it would be a wonderful method by which millions of people would be introduced in a relatively sane manner to the underlying message and philosophy of the fraternity. At least in the U.S., there was a time when the overwhelming majority of the population respected us and knew who and what we represented. These days, not so much.

But that might not really sell too many movie tickets.

Because of its international locations and globe trotting plot, Inferno was judged by Sony to be a potentially more exciting story to tell onscreen, so we will all have to wait and see how it does before a decision gets revisited on The Lost Symbol. That's sad news for us as Freemasons, just from a purely selfish public relations point of view. But it might ultimately be better news for rest of the moviegoing public.

Because it sucks.