Best-selling author James Patterson establishes scholarships to support students at HBCU The University of the Virgin Islands.

TVLine spoke with Hodge (who’s also a producer on the already-renewed series) and Watkins about the legions of Alex Cross fans that are out there, the choice to not adapt a specific novel ...

So much so that the author of the books that inspired Amazon Prime Video’s new hit series “Cross,” rejected a seven-figure offer to recast his character Alex Cross as a white man.

Aldis Hodge is currently doing a phenomenal job kicking ass and taking names as Detective Alex Cross on Prime Video’s new series, “Cross.” But if Hollywood would’ve had their way—we ...

and it’s based on some things that I want to do to mine and pay homage to the characters that are in the Alex Cross book series,” he said. “Even though I’m doing new stories, I want at ...

James Patterson's Alex Cross books provide the basis for the series, but in a bold move, the creative team behind the crime drama have decided not to directly adapt the books, and this looks like ...

police detective Alex Cross, into a white man when he was originally shopping the first book around. Hodge now plays the character in Prime Video’s series adaptation of Patterson’s book series.

Season 1 is titled “Hero Complex,” where we craft a story that has to match what James Patterson set as sort of the blueprint and has the hallmarks of the Alex Cross series. The first hallmark ...

It was risky because it meant it was going to take more work and we were going to have to really match the reputation of the Alex Cross series, which is legendary. I read the books, and had been ...