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The Alex Cross film series is an American film series of three thriller films, based on the fictional character Alex Cross, who originally appeared in a series of novels of the same name by James Patterson. In the film series, Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry have portrayed Alex Cross.
Alex Cross is a 2012 American crime thriller film [3] [4] [5] directed by Rob Cohen, and starring Tyler Perry as the title character, and Matthew Fox as the villain Picasso. The adapted screenplay was written by Marc Moss and Kerry Williamson. It is based on the 2006 novel Cross by James Patterson.
On May 14, 2016, it was announced that Broad Green Pictures would co-produce the film under the title Villa Capri with Entertainment One, with direction by Ron Shelton, starring Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones. [7] [8] [9] On June 9, 2016, it was announced that Rene Russo was cast in a leading role alongside Freeman and Jones. [10]
(In 1997, Morgan Freeman portrayed the role in “Kiss the Girls” and returned for the sequel, “Along Came a Spider” in 2001. Tyler Perry took over in “Alex Cross” in 2012.)
The plot follows an ex-FBI agent (Jones) who must put aside his personal feud with a former mob lawyer (Freeman) at a retirement home when the mafia comes to kill the pair. Freeman also hosted the National Geographic The Story of God with Morgan Freeman and The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman, in 2016 and 2017, respectively. [167]
The first came in 1997’s “Kiss the Girls,” with Morgan Freeman playing the hardened Washington D.C. detective. The movie was a loose adaptation of the series’ second book of the same name.
This isn’t the first Alex Cross adaptation. Both Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry have played the iconic detective on movie screens, with Freeman taking the role in both Kiss the Girls (1997) and ...
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award , a Golden Globe Award , a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards .