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He’s back and Summit Entertainment has him. James Patterson’s](http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/james-patterson/1322114/main) Alex Cross, last seen in Paramount’s ‘Kiss the Girls’ and ‘Along Came a Spider,’ both starring Morgan Freeman, will return to the big screen in ‘I, Alex Cross,](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/i-alex-cross/10054791/main)’ a reboot of the series with Tyler Perry as the title character. Ed Burns will play Cross’s partner Tommy Kane, and ‘Lost’s’ Matthew Fox will play a psycho serial killer who viciously murders Cross’s wife when the detective thwarts one of his attempts to commit a murder. Rob Cohen is directing, with production expected to begin in early August for a fall 2012 or early 2013 release. Deadline]
Deadline calls this “The Young Male Role to Die For”: the lead in ‘The Bourne Legacy,’](The Bourne Legacy (2012) - Movie | Moviefone) the ‘Bourne Identity’ spinoff that Tony Gilroy](Tony Gilroy | Moviefone) (who wrote all three ‘Bourne’ films as well as helming ‘Michael Clayton’) is directing for Universal. Deadline lists the narrowing field of those set to test: Joel Edgerton (‘The Thing’), Dominic Cooper (‘The Devil’s Double’), Garrett Hedlund (‘Tron: Legacy’) and Luke Evans (‘The Amateur American’) and speculates on those in the wings (Logan Marshall-Green of TV’s ‘Dark Blue’ and Taylor Kitsch of ‘Battleship’).