Ron Howard, who was directed by the previous two parts "Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons," refused this summer from the Third Project, he chose to become a picture producer.
Mark Romanek has not yet received a job, but negotiations with him should begin in the near future. The director is known in his work "Do not let me go" with Kira Knightley, Cary Malligan and Andrew Garfield. The romance almost became a director of the "Wolf Man", but a few weeks before the start of production and did not come to the general denominator with the Universal studio about the budget, as well as about other creative disagreements.
Naturally, Sony Pictures puts the project "Lost Symbol" with one of the priorities. "Da Vinci Code" collected 758 million dollars around the world in 2006, while "Angels and Demons" in 2009 only $ 486 million. To the scenario of the "lost symbol", as in the previous two times, put the hand of Stephen Knight. Tom Hanks, who played Professor Langdon twice, is expected to take up this role again. True Hanks is also busy in another picture of Sony Pictures "A Captain Duty" directed by Paul Greningrass, where he plays Captain Hero Richard Phillips, struggling with somail pirates.