Morgan Freeman, Tyler Perry and Idris Elba? That may just be the list of stars who’ve portrayed Alex Cross on screen.James Patterson, who invented the character for the 1993 novel Along Came a Spider, isn’t quite done with his famous protagonist yet.
The character went on to appear 27 more novels; he also led three movies — Freeman played him in 1997’s Kiss the Girls and 2001’s Along Came a Spider, while Perry stepped in in 2012’s Alex Cross.
However, neither were who Patterson, 72, has in mind.“I always thought Idris Elba would be great and we actually had him set up.
He wanted to do it and then it sort of got complicated and Tyler Perry, for whatever reason, people thought would do better in the box office,” the author says in the latest
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