Summit Entertainment, the studio best known for backing the Twilight films, has picked up I, Alex Cross starring Tyler Perry and directed by Rob Cohen (Stealth, xXx). I, Alex Cross is an origin story and the 16th novel from James Patterson to feature the character Alex Cross.
I, Alex Cross won't be the first film with Alex Cross as the lead character. Morgan Freeman played Cross in 1997's Kiss the Girls and 2001's Along Came a Spider. This film - and the book - reboots the character and since Freeman can't age backwards, Perry's taking over the role.
Filming is expected to begin later this year.
The synopsis from James Patterson's official site: "Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim. The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain--they will do anything to keep their secrets safe."
"As Alex closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable--a revelation that could rock the entire world."
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