Now that these with an Amazon Prime subscription can stream the brand-new adaptation of James Patterson’s well-liked Alex Cross books, the bestselling writer is getting actual about his ideas on the earlier iteration of the thriller novels starring Tyler Perry. In a latest interview, Patterson shared he thinks Perry was “screwed” by Alex Cross director Rob Cohen.
Tyler Perry took a break from the Madea films in 2012 to star in an adaptation of James Patterson’s 2006 novel Cross to re-introduce audiences to the nice Black detective character after Morgan Freeman beforehand performed him in two movies, 1997’s Kiss The Women and 2001’s Alongside Got here A Spider. Right here’s what the writer needed to say as Aldis Hodge now takes up the position for the newest collection on the 2024 TV schedule:
Effectively, within the films you get two hours, and so they didn’t have time to essentially develop Sampson, so Sampson was all the time an afterthought. However on this, he’s nice. I feel I’ve been very fortunate, and it’s type of somewhat uncommon, in that we’ve had two actors play Jack Reacher. Sherlock Holmes, God is aware of how many individuals [have played him], and we’ve bought three actually good actors, completely different approaches [who’ve been Alex] with Morgan, Aldis and Tyler Perry. Tyler bought screwed by the director.
When Tyler Perry performed the position in 2012, CinemaBlend gave the film one out of 5 stars in our Alex Cross evaluation, with Eric Eisenberg sharing it had a “ridiculous story,” and a “waste of expertise” as effectively. The film additionally earned an 11% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the audiences did not like that rather more, with the aggregator web site having it a 47% on that aspect of issues.
The film additionally bombed on the field workplace, making simply $34 million worldwide off a reported $35 million manufacturing finances. Whereas Summit Leisure had deliberate to make a sequel referred to as Double Cross, its poor reception led to it being cancelled. Throughout James Patterson’s interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the writer additionally mentioned this:
The director simply screwed him. The director got here in, that is weird, however each night time he would sit there and rewrite the script. So we might exit, Tyler would get the brand new script, which is hard, and it might be a primary draft, primarily. And Tyler, when he was in Gone Lady, it was a small half, however you had been like, ‘he can do that’ — he’s an amazing man.
The Alex Cross director beforehand had made the primary The Quick and the Livid film, together with XXX and the third The Mummy film with Brendan Fraser. James Patterson didn’t mince phrases relating to his ideas on how Cohen dealt with the second iteration of his Cross books, however he definitely didn’t blame Tyler Perry for his efficiency. As he continued:
So I’ve been fortunate by way of having three very completely different guys, and I like the entire takes. Aldis is nice. I simply completed the Pacino autobiography, and Al actually will get into it. He simply goes deep and I really feel loads of that with Aldis. Proper from the primary time I talked to him, he’s like, ‘I’ve bought to get in, I’ve bought to grasp this man.’ And you will note scenes the place you see two or three sides of him in the identical scene, which I feel is absolutely nice.
The most recent adaptation of the Alex Cross books is poised to be a hit for the fabric, as Season 1 has already landed as No. 1 in america for Prime Video, earned optimistic opinions from critics, and has already been renewed by the streamer for a second season. All eight episodes of Cross may be streamed now! You possibly can take a look at what different upcoming guide diversifications are on the way in which right here on CinemaBlend. There are two different books of Patterson’s, Eruption and Run, Rose, Run, that are presently in growth as effectively.