Before They Were Stars: Anton Yelchin in “Along Came a Spider”

Later today, our newest episode of Shouts from the Back Row will be posted and we will be discussing the all-too-brief career of the late Anton Yelchin, who died tragically in a freak accident last weekend. Looking back at his filmography, I was surprised to see that he had an early role in Along Came a Spider, the 2001 thriller starring Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. I saw the movie when it originally came out, but don’t remember much about it, but the 11-year old Yelchin played the son of the Russian President, who is nearly kidnapped by Michael Wincott’s villain in this scene.