Steve Knight to decode THE LOST SYMBOL's mystery!

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Talented British screenwriter Steve Knight is to take home an obscene paycheck for page-by-page translating the fastest selling idiot book of all time - Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Knight was responsible for the smart Eastern Promises and the under-rate 2002 Stephen Frears directed thriller Dirty Pretty Things, and his hiring is a massive up-scale appointment for Sony Pictures. The studio embarrassingly wasted $4 million on paying Akiva Goldsman to scribe the last Robert Langdon adventure Angels & Demons, only for his draft to be re-written by David Koepp when Goldsman's draft was uninspired and lacking pace. The run-of-the-mill ticking bomb series has so far grossed $1.2 billion from it's two movies despite it's mediocre output on screen. It has made Tom Hanks and Ron Howard a fortune, and although no deals have been made, everyone pretty much expects them both to return for one more outing. An outing which hopefully will put an end to this miserable serious. The Lost Symbol takes place in Washington and is a kidnapping thriller that involves the Freemasons. Apparently it's Langdon's mentor who is nabbed prior to a lecture and I haven't read the novel but I can picture exactly how it plays. Can't you?