Fans of the Amazon series Reacher will soon have a date with Alex Cross, the investigator who has even more novels to his name than his colleague
With Alex Cross, Amazon Prime Video will soon be presenting a crime series that could be of particular interest to Reacher fans. Although the high-profile investigators are quite different, there are some parallels between them. In addition to the same series home at Amazon, both have an extensive crime catalog.
Alex Cross has not yet been given a specific date for the start of his investigations, but we will keep you up to date.
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Alex Cross and Jack Reacher: Two Amazon investigators with extensive backstories
Jack Reacher comes from the pen of author Lee Child. He is a major in the US military police and has appeared in 28 novels to date. The 29th will be called In Too Deep and is due to be published on October 21, 2024. Tom Cruise played the investigator in two films: Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher 2 – No Way Back. This was followed by the Amazon series, in which Alan Ritchson has played the capable title character for two seasons. A 3rd season is already in the works and is scheduled to go online in 2025
(Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross)
Alex Cross, on the other hand, comes from the crime fiction creativity of James Patterson, whose African-American investigator from Washington, D.C. can already look back on 32 novels. Alex Cross Must Die from 2023 is the latest title in the series, which has so far been adapted with mixed success. Morgan Freeman portrayed Cross in …because they’re here to kiss and In the Web of the Spider, before Tyler Perry played him in 2012’s Alex Cross. All three films received mostly negative reviews.
A new chance for criminal investigator Alex Cross on Amazon
Actor Aldis Hodge, known from the Boston crime drama City on a Hill or the superhero film Black Adam, slips into the role for the new Amazon series from showrunner Ben Watkin. With forensic knowledge and a special talent for feeling his way into the psyche of victims and perpetrators, he will reportedly start work as Alex Cross this year. In his private life, the investigator with a doctorate is a loving father who obsessively throws himself into his work after the death of his wife – and often goes overboard in the process.
Watch the first teaser trailer for Alex Cross here:
