Tyler Perry, the one-man film studio (he writes! he directs! he stars!), is everywhere.
There's the new poster for Madea's Big Happy Family (a deadpan parody of the one-sheets for The Queen and Black Swan , featuring himself as the eponymous greyhair in a housecoat).
There's the announcement that Perry will star as Alex Cross, the detective/hero of James Patterson mysteries including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, in a reboot of what once was Morgan Freeman's movie franchise. I, Alex Cross, once expected to star frequent Perry actor Idris Elba, is the name of the reboot.
And there's Kenan Thompson's wickedly funny impersonation of Perry on Saturday Night Live, where Thompson has the multimedia king laughing all the way to the bank despite the Academy snub of his Oscar- bait film, For Colored Girls. "Some people told me the title sounded like a sign over a drinking fountain in the 1950s."
I'm an admirer, if not an all-out fan, of Perry. His movies feature such manic swings from comedy to melodrma that I think they should come with emotional seatbelt. But the same can be said of films by Pedro Almodovar. Your thoughts about Perry?
YES YES YES, to tyler perry as alex cross. he has more talent and imagination than four men combined. he could lend a fantastic, serious interpetration of cross. drama, suspense, tears...tyler perry will win an award.— Miss M.- Tyler Perry: If he can play the part of Cross well, without wearing a dress, it's fine. At least it will be written well, because Perry won't be writing the screenplay.— Don Cornelius
- I would like to see someone else play Alex Cross. A new actor that could be branded Alex, rather than Tyler Perry as Alex.— JB1
- I want to see Morgan Freeman back as Alex Cross. But if that doesn't happen, I don't see Tyler Perry carrying off that part. If he does and he's believable in the role, it should get an Oscar!— dellfan
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