Idris Elba was originally hired in 2010 to act in which 2012 American action crime-thriller film although he was replaced by Tyler Perry?
Alex Cross (film) Alex Cross is a 2012 American action crime-thriller film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Tyler Perry as the title character and Matthew Fox as the villain Picasso. The adapted screenplay was written by Marc Moss and Kerry Williamson. This is the third film appearance of the character Alex Cross, the lead of a series of novels by James Patterson. Cross was previously portrayed by Morgan Freeman in "Kiss the Girls" (1997) and "Along Came a Spider" (2001). In 2010, Idris Elba was hired to play Cross, but was replaced by Perry. Filming took place in 2011, and "Alex Cross" was released on October 19, 2012 in the United States and Canada.
Repo Men Repo Men is a 2010 American-Canadian science fiction action-thriller film directed by Miguel Sapochnik, and starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Alice Braga and Carice van Houten. It is based on the novel "The Repossession Mambo" by Eric Garcia.