"I Will Meet His Soul At The Gates of Hell!"

In case you forgot, the reason we were all supposed to be tolerating the existance of Tyler Perry's appallingly-awful cinematic fusions of Bible-Thumping moralizing, soap opera histrionics and Minstrel Show "comedy" was that he was at least giving boxoffice exposure to criminally-underutilized black actors who might be able to use his bafflingly-popular films as a springboard to bigger A-list roles.

Well, the good news is, someone has finally jumped from the Perryverse into a high-profile lead role in a major studio tentpole/franchise-starter. The bad news? That someone... is Tyler Perry; who stepped in to replace a departing Idris Elba in the Rob Cohen directed "Alex Cross," intended to relaunch a new series of films based on the James Patterson detective novels that previously inspired "Kiss The Girls" and "Along Came a Spider."

The film now has a trailer; and if you've just been dying to watch Madea's male-half strap on guns and "badass-up" to do hilariously unconvincing battle with Matthew Fox as what appears to be an MMA-fighting ex-military hitman called "The Butcher"... you're in luck: