'Succession' Breakout to Star in NBC Drama 'Langdon'

, has found its lead actor.

Ashley Zukerman will star as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in the pilot. He's taking on a role played by Tom Hanks in three movies based on Brown's novels —The pilot, from CBS Television Studios, Universal TV and Imagine TV, follows the early adventures of Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.

Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie are writing the adaptation of Brown's novel. NBC made the project one of its first script buys of the season in June 2019, giving it a sizable production commitment at the time.Dworkin and Beattie will executive produce with author Brown and Imagine's Brian Grazer, Ron Howard — who directed the three Langdon movies that starred Hanks — Samie Falvey and Anna Culp., where he played Shiv's former colleague and on-and-off lover, Nate Sofrelli.

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