![]() After all, Harry Potter was all the rage at the time, and the Alex Rider series boasts 11 books to Potter’s 7. ![]() The companies that invested in the film – which included The Weinstein Company in the US, and MPC, Samuelson Productions and Isle Of Man Film in the UK – presumably went into the production of the movie hoping to spark an on-going film franchise. A fairly faithful adaptation of the first book in Horowitz’s series, with a few added action scenes and beefed out roles for the supporting players, the Stormbreaker movie was an inoffensive way to spend a brisk 93 minutes. ![]() That film was Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker(or simply Stormbreaker, as it was called in the UK). ![]() But long before the upcoming Amazon Prime series was a twinkle in anybody’s eye, a feature-length film starring some high-profile British actors arrived in cinemas in 2006. There’s a sense that history is repeating itself right now, with our entertainment overlords once again deciding that a live-action adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider novels is exactly what we need. ![]()
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