Morgan Spector is negotiating to take over the role of Robert Langdon, the code-breaking Harvard professor Tom Hanks made famous on the big screen, for Netflix’s television adaptation of Dan Brown’s “The Secret of Secrets.” His real-life wife, Rebecca Hall, is in talks for the female lead opposite him, according to multiple industry reports.
Representatives for Netflix, Spector and Hall did not respond to requests for comment on the negotiations. The series, ordered straight-to-series by Netflix in May 2025, adapts Brown’s sixth Langdon novel, published in September. The story follows the symbologist as he races to rescue his girlfriend, scientist Katherine Solomon, and the unpublished manuscript she has written on human consciousness — research that intersects with a hidden government project in Prague, where filming is expected to begin this fall.
Brown serves as co-creator and executive producer alongside showrunner Carlton Cuse, the writer behind “Lost” and “Bates Motel.” Emma Forman of Cuse’s Genre-Arts banner also executive produces.
Landing the role would make Spector the third actor to play Langdon on screen, following Hanks in Ron Howard’s film trilogy — “The Da Vinci Code,” “Angels & Demons” and “Inferno,” which together grossed more than $2 billion worldwide — and Ashley Zukerman, who played a younger version of the character in Peacock’s short-lived 2021 series “The Lost Symbol.” Brown’s Langdon novels have sold more than 250 million copies in 56 languages since “Angels & Demons” launched the franchise in 2000.
Spector currently stars as railroad tycoon George Russell on HBO’s “The Gilded Age” and has also appeared in “Black Rabbit” and “Homeland.” Taking the Netflix role would not require him to leave the HBO series, provided both productions can accommodate his schedule.
Hall, known for “The Town” and the FX series “The Beauty,” would play Katherine Solomon. The casting would mark the first time she and Spector have starred together in a television series, though the real-life couple have previously appeared together on stage and in film, including the Broadway revival of “Machinal.”
