Prime Video is making prequel series for Legally Blonde and Alex Cross – and you can watch the first trailer for Cross now
Prime Video wants to take you back in time to meet younger versions of Elle Woods and Alex Cross
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It’s prequel time atPrime Video: the streamer has releasedthe trailer forCross, a series prequel to the movies that previously starred Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry, and a new teaser forElle, the prequel series toLegally Blonde.
Crossis based on the many Alex Cross detective novels by James Patterson, andAmazonis clearly confident that it has a hit on its hand: the show isn’t even streaming yet and it’s been greenlit for a second season. AndEllehas Reese Witherspoon as executive producer, telling the story of Elle Woods' origins as a 1990s high schooler.
According to Prime Video, “Ellefollows Elle Woods in high school as we learn about the life experiences that shaped her into the iconic young woman we came to know and love in the firstLegally Blondefilm.” And Witherspoon for one is excited. “Fans will get to know how Elle Woods navigated her world as a teenager with her distinct personality and ingenuity, in ways that only our beloved Elle could do,” she says. “What could be better than that?”
Could Cross be your next favorite detective show?
If you’re not familiar with Alex Cross – and the books' sales figures suggest that many of you will be – he’s a detective and forensic psychologist who’s really good at getting under the skin of criminals and their victims, metaphorically speaking. He was played by Morgan Freeman in a pair of movies from the ’90s – as a grizzled, older version of the character – and then by Tyler Perry in a 2012 movie.
The trailer suggests we’re going to see a younger version of Cross trying to unravel the psyches of some pretty creepy criminals, and in Aldis Hodge it looks like the studio has found the perfect actor to play the titular detective. Although it appears that the season will include multiple criminal cases, it looks like there will also be a single, central case whose arc will run through the entire first season.
Cross will be streaming later this year, and Amazon has announced that the second season will introduce new cast members including Wes Chatham fromThe Expanse, Matthew Lillard fromFive Nights at Freddy’sand Jeanine Mason fromGrey’s Anatomy. As yet there’s no streaming date for the second season. Or the first. As forElle, Prime Video just says that’s “coming soon” – we’ll see if it can nail the delicate comedy balance it’ll need to rank among thebest Prime Video shows.
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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