Dan Brown’s latest ‘Origin’ questions the future of religion

Tom Hanks as an uber puzzled Robert Langdon in 'Inferno', the 2016 movie based on Dan Brown's 2013 book. Langdon is back in a new adventure, 'Origin', released by Brown earlier this month. Photo: Movie still

After the last Robert Langdon book, Inferno (2013), one wonders if there could be a topic weighty enough to counteract its earth-shattering ending. (Pictured above is Tom Hanks as an uber puzzled Langdon in the movie version of Inferno.)

Well, Dan Brown decides to go for broke and tackle the eternal questions of “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?” – “we” being humankind, of course.