By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 12:30 pm EST
It’s early days on the Alex Cross TV series, so it’s not clear if the series will be adapting a single book featuring the character for an entire season or if it will use multiple stories from several books to flesh out the show. There are 29 books starring the character, so there’s a lot to choose from. But the series could also easily go in entirely different direction and use the character to lead a crime procedural kind of show.
Alex Cross has previously only appeared in movies. Morgan Freeman played the character in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, which might preclude those stories from being part of the new series, if only for the sake of treading new territory. Plus, Tyler Perry played Alex Cross in a self-titled movie from 2012 (seen above), based on the novel Cross.
The question is who should play Alex Cross this time? I wouldn’t mind seeing Winston Duke (Black Panther) in a role like this, or maybe Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton) since the reboot of 24 didn’t pan out for him as well as it could have. There are plenty of bigger stars out there like Chadwick Boseman and John Boyega, but I can’t imagine them tackling television at this point in their career.
