Netflix's first official image does not show a code, a corpse or an ominous ancient symbol. It simply puts Morgan Spector and Rebecca Hall on a Prague street — which is useful, because the location itself matters this time.
Spector plays Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, while Hall stars as Katherine Solomon, a scientist whose work on human consciousness sits at the center of Dan Brown's 2025 novel The Secret of Secrets.
Prague gets to play Prague
The story begins with Langdon in the Czech capital for a lecture by Katherine. Her disappearance, along with a manuscript containing potentially disruptive discoveries about consciousness, pulls him into another chase through science, religion, history and mythology.
Production has been using actual locations across central Prague, including Josefov, Jan Palach Square, Čechův most and Municipal House. The first-look photo of Spector and Hall was taken outside that Art Nouveau landmark.
International productions use Prague as a stand-in for other cities all the time. Here the city is part of the mystery rather than production camouflage.
Langdon is changing actors for the third time
Spector inherits a role with two screen histories already attached. Tom Hanks played Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Inferno, while Ashley Zukerman starred as a younger version of the professor in Peacock's The Lost Symbol.
Showrunner Carlton Cuse has emphasized Spector's intelligence and humanity as the qualities he wants for this incarnation. The series is not being positioned as another attempt to imitate Hanks' performance.
Rebecca Hall's Katherine also changes the character's usual screen dynamic. Cuse describes her as Langdon's first serious love interest, giving the adaptation a relationship that is meant to matter beyond the mechanics of solving the next clue.
The supporting cast is already substantial
Cherry Jones will play Heide Nagel, Corey Stoll is Everett Finch, Rob Delaney is Jonas Faukman and Abbey Lee plays Sasha Vesna.
Mamadou Athie, Ben Levi Ross, Anamaria Marinca, Richard Sammel and Elena Saurel have also joined in recurring roles.
Dan Brown and Carlton Cuse co-created the series. Cuse serves as showrunner, writer and executive producer, with Brown, Emma Forman and Zoe Robyn also executive producing.
The real change may be the amount of time
Cuse has argued that Brown's novels are difficult to compress into conventional feature length. The new adaptation is designed to unfold across roughly eight hours, leaving more space for the science, mythology, relationships and historical detours that tend to get squeezed hardest when Langdon reaches the cinema.
Netflix has not announced a premiere date. It has not even announced a final title yet. For now, the most concrete clue is also the simplest one: production is underway in Prague.
