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Even as the show looks to be taking its own approach to adapting its source material, Alona Tal is careful to share whether her Cross character is connected to the books' major villain. The Prime Video show serves as the fourth major adaptation of James Patterson's thriller novel franchise centering on the titular Washington D.C. detective amid his various investigations. Aldis Hodge is leading the ensemble Cross cast in the eponymous role alongside a few iconic book characters, including Isaiah Mustafa's Detective John Sampson.

In honor of the show's New York Comic Con panel, Screen Rant interviewed Alona Tal to discuss Cross. When asked about her character's potential connection to the books' big villain, Kyle Craig, the star was very careful in her response, instead sharing how she would be a close ally to the titular protagonist in the opening season, while also teasing that future seasons...

May on the Criterion Channel will be good to the auteurs. In fact they’re giving Richard Linklater better treatment than the distributor of his last film, with a 13-title retrospective mixing usual suspects—the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Slacker—with some truly off the beaten track. There’s a few shorts I haven’t seen but most intriguing is Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, the only available description of which calls it a four-hour (!) piece “edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas from 1987 to 1990. It is Linklater’s tribute to the film countdown, used by many projectionists over the years to cue one reel of film after another when switching to another reel on another projector during projection.” Pair that with 2008’s Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach and your completionism will be on-track.