Saturday, June 9, 2012

YEAH, BUT THE MOVIE WASN'T AS GOOD AS THE BOOK

 

BOOKS ABOUT TO BECOME MOVIES

I, ALEX CROSS by James Patterson

I, ALEX CROSS

Status: Set for Australian release on October 25, 2012

Who's involved: Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) directs, with Tyler Perry playing the famous title character.

Why you should read the book first: Because even though Patterson has become the Starbucks of the literary circuit – cranking out a new book seemingly every week – his detective novels centred around Washington, D.C. detective Alex Cross embody the term “page-turner” and should be read to enjoy the author’s gift for pacing and prose. The brilliant but humanly flawed Cross has been the protagonist of 18 novels for a reason – audiences can connect with his unconventional method of tracking serial killers, and his stop-at-nothing approach to criminal apprehension, usually because close members of his family are in danger. For whatever reason, Alex Cross hasn’t translated smoothly to the big screen--Morgan Freeman was miscast as the detective in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Perry seems like a better choice, and Matthew Fox looks like a crazed antagonist in early photos we’ve seen. But read Patterson’s novel I, Alex Cross before Cohen’s adaptation to get a better grip on Cross, as a character, and the sadistic foe he’ll be tracking once the movie opens in October.

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