Dan Brown's 'The Digital Fortress' will be adapted for TV
A pilot for the series will reportedly air on ABC.
A pilot for the series will reportedly air on ABC.
Another novel by Dan Brown will be adapted 鈥� but this time it will be for the small screen.聽
According to Deadline, Brown鈥檚 book 鈥淒igital Fortress,鈥� which was first released in 1998 and centers on cryptographer Susan Fletcher, is being adapted as a pilot for ABC by director Ron Howard鈥檚 production company Imagine Entertainment. Howard directed the 2006 movie 鈥淭he Da Vinci Code鈥� and the 2009 follow-up 鈥淎ngels and Demons,鈥� both of which starred actor Tom Hanks as Brown鈥檚 character Robert Langdon.
"Fortress" has a "put pilot commitment," according to Deadline, which means ABC has to air the pilot or pay Imagine Entertainment.
Brown released another book centering on Robert Langdon, 鈥淚nferno,鈥� in 2013 and according to the UK newspaper The Independent, both Howard and Hanks will return for a film adaptation of the novel.