For the first time, Alex Cross is coming to the small screen, and its creator and lead star promise they’re making it worth the binge when Cross arrives in full on Amazon Prime Video this November 14. Whereas prior adaptations — two with Morgan Freeman as the title character and one by and with Tyler Perry — were feature-length movies and subject to the attendant time constraints, Cross as a show gives the creatives and cast the opportunity to run in several different narrative directions throughout its eight-episode arc. “ We really wanted to just expand on what had been seen, and I personally felt like we could have a huge advantage by doing it for television because that would give us more real estate so we can make the landscape bigger,” creator Ben Watkins told TV Insider of his preference for the new medium.
“There’s a really important by-product of that: That means you don’t just get a thriller with all the twists and turns. That means you actually get to do a character story, a personal journey for Alex Cross.” Indeed, in the official trailer for the series , we see that Cross is raising two children by himself after the death of his wife, and he’s grappling with his own grief as he attempts to solve the serial murder case(s) at hand.
Even as he loses his grip, though, he’s got to rely on his mind more than ever to understand what kind of monster he’s dealing with. For Watkins, a central priority for his new screen iteration of James Patterson�.