Title: Along Came a Spider (film)
Content:  There were no further sequels, but the character of Alex Cross was rebooted with a 2012 film adaptation of the novel Cross under the title Alex Cross starring Tyler Perry in the titular role.
Title: Along Came a Spider (film)
Content:  Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori. It is the second installment in the Alex Cross film series and a sequel to the 1997 film Kiss the Girls, with Morgan Freeman and Jay O. Sanders reprising their roles as detective Alex Cross and FBI-agent Kyle Craig. The screenplay by Marc Moss was adapted from the 1993 novel of the same title by James Patterson, but many of the key plot elements of the book were eliminated. The film was a box office success, although receiving mixed reviews from critics.
Title: Along Came a Spider (novel)
Content:  A film adaptation of the same name was released on April 6, 2001, starring Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross, Monica Potter as Jezzie Flannagan, and Michael Wincott as Gary Soneji. The adaptation makes substantial changes to the plot, omitting much of Soneji's background and his split personality, as well as changing the identity of the kidnapped children's parents and many characters' eventual fate.
Title: Along Came a Spider (film)
Content:  After Washington, D.C., detective forensic psychologist and author Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) loses control of a sting operation, resulting in the death of his partner, he retires from the force. He is drawn back to police work when Megan Rose (Mika Boorem), the daughter of a United States senator, is kidnapped from her exclusive private school by Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott), a computer science teacher. US Secret Service Special Agent Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter), held responsible for the breach in security, joins forces with Cross to find the missing girl. Soneji contacts Cross by phone and alerts him to the fact 
Title: Alex Cross
Content:  Cross is portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the 1997 film Kiss the Girls and the 2001 film Along Came a Spider. He is portrayed by Tyler Perry in the 2012 film Alex Cross.
Title: Along Came a Spider (novel)
Content:  Along Came a Spider is a crime thriller novel, and the first novel in James Patterson's series about forensic psychologist Alex Cross. First published in 1993, its success has led to twenty six sequels as of 2021. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 2001, starring Morgan Freeman as Cross.
Title: Alex Cross (novel series)
Content:  Two films, based on the first Cross novels, have been made starring Morgan Freeman (Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider), both released to negative reaction. Both of them are very loose adaptations of the books, with Along Came a Spider changing many of the plot's elements, while Kiss the Girls changes nearly the entire story's plot, except for the fact that Alex's niece is kidnapped and its primary antagonist is Casanova. A significant, and well-noted, change upon the books in the movies is that John Sampson is not white but African-American, like Alex himself. Kyle Craig is briefly seen in Kiss the Girls. Along Came a Spider's adaptation was also changed with the film taking out major plot elements or changing 
Title: Alex Cross (film series)
Content: Kiss the Girls (1997) ; Along Came a Spider (2001) ; Alex Cross (2012) 
Title: Alex Cross
Content:  In Along Came a Spider, Alex is struggling to forgive himself for a sting operation that goes wrong and ends with the death of a partner. He plans to retire, but receives a phone call from Gary Soneji, who has kidnapped a young girl, Megan Rose, forcing him to take up the case. He ends up teaming up with Secret Service agent Jezzie Flannigan. After discovering Soneji's hideout, Alex figures out that he is trying to create a crime of the century, paralleling the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping. With Jezzie's help, Alex stops Soneji from kidnapping the Russian's president's son, Dimitri Starodubov. Jezzie asks Alex why he takes such cases. He replies that people find something that they have a gift for, or that they like to 
Title: Kyle Craig
Content:  Kyle Craig has been in two films of the Alex Cross series. He appeared in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, being played by Jay O. Sanders.

Question: who played alex cross in along came a spider?
Answer: Morgan Freeman.