files/pictures/picture-35.jpgRon Howard, who brought Dan Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE and ANGELS & DEMONS to the screen, will not direct the writer's next Robert Langdon tale, THE LOST SYMBOL, reports
Deadline.com . Howard will still produce with his Imagine Ent. partner Brian Grazer. Sony is now looking for a new director. Tom Hanks is expected to return as the Harvard symbologist.