Dan Brown is the author of numerous thrillers, all of which have topped the bestseller lists for months and have also been successfully adapted into films. With his book Sakrileg (original title: The Da Vinci Code), which was published in over 40 countries and adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks, he became one of the most successful authors of recent decades. Dan Brown’s thrillers are translated into 54 languages. Following such successful publications, the film adaptations of the Robert Langdon thrillers were not long in coming.