When I wrote the first Alex Cross novel, and Hollywood kept calling— knock, knock, bang, knock. I didn’t have a lot of money.
And they offered seven figures. “All we want is for Alex to be a white man,” they said. And ‘Fuck you,’ I said.
“I did it, even though it hurt. Therefore, we delayed selling it. However, Paramount arrived a few years later, so Morgan and I worked on a few films.
David Ellison’s Skydance is one of the works shown here. David was involved early on, followed by Amazon.
Which was fantastic, and Ben [Watkins], who I met along the line, which was really amazing. Aldis, of course, joined a bit later.
