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Don't Ever Cross Alex Cross.
James Patterson's Alex Cross character is, in some ways, the psychological cops-and-serial-killers equivalent of Lee Child's ex-military investigator Jack Reacher. Tough, intelligent and experienced, Cross has been the focus of even more bestselling novels than Reacher and is yet another entity that filmmakers are desperate to cash in on and convert to a Big Screen equivalent. But, as we know from experience, the translation from page-to-screen of these book characters is considerably more hit than miss.
Even if you get the right actor (Alec Baldwin as Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October) he may not agree to do more than one film; even if you get the right actor to return (Harrison Ford as Clancy's Ryan in ...
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James Patterson's Alex Cross character is, in some ways, the psychological cops-and-serial-killers equivalent of Lee Child's ex-military investigator Jack Reacher. Tough, intelligent and experienced, Cross has been the focus of even more bestselling novels than Reacher and is yet another entity that filmmakers are desperate to cash in on and convert to a Big Screen equivalent. But, as we know from experience, the translation from page-to-screen of these book characters is considerably more hit than miss.
Even if you get the right actor (Alec Baldwin as Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October) he may not agree to do more than one film; even if you get the right actor to return (Harrison Ford as Clancy's Ryan in ...
Read the full review ...
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