And from the other side of the pond, Mickey Rourke and Alicia Silverstone also have decent-sized roles. Lest we forget that Ewan McGregor, Andy Serkis, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Bill Nighy and Robbie Coltrane all appear in this film. Yen’s role on the set of Stormbreakerwas described as “action director / additional martial arts sequences”, and you can definitely see his influence in the post-car-crushing fight scene near the start of the film.Īlex Pettyfer was a relative unknown in the central role of Alex Rider, but he was surrounded by a bevvy of British talent that would make most homegrown film productions blush. The production also managed to snare a certain Donnie Yen (the star of Ip Man, who is arguably best known now for his performance as Chirrut Îmwe in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). The script was penned by book series author Anthony Horowitz himself, and Geoffrey Sax (director of the Doctor WhoTV movie, among other things) looked like a safe pair of hands in the director’s chair. (Interestingly, it looks like the Amazon Prime series will skip over most of the events in the Stormbreaker book, instead basing its main season one mystery on Point Blanc – the second book in the series.)īut what went wrong with Operation Stormbreaker? Why were there no sequels, and why did that film franchise fail to take flight? Read on to learn all… It looked so good on paperįirst off, let’s take a moment to appreciate just how good the Stormbreakerfilm looked on paper. Operation Stormbreaker ended up being a one-off movie, paving the way (inadvertently) for Sony to return years later and put this rebooted TV series into production. Those Stormbreaker sequel books, however, were never adapted into films. 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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