IMDB TV has made a second trailer for the new Original Alex Rider Series. All episodes are scheduled to premiere November 13th. Alex Rider is based on the second book, Point Blank of the franchise. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) was the adaptation of the first novel, Stormbreaker.
The coming of age spy-thriller series is based on the best selling book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz. Over 20 million copies have been sold worldwide. The series follows a London based teenager that unknowingly has been trained to be able to thrive in the dangerous world of espionage. Alex’s skills are tested after his uncle’s death comes with no logical explanation. He goes under a new identity to an isolated boarding school called, Point Blanc. There he will find a deeper truth about the students that are subject for a disturbing plan and will be up to him to intervene. Potentially risking his life.
The English actor, Otto Farrant plays the teenage Alex Rider. He is known for the film, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and television series like, War & Peace and The White Queen. Farrant, began his career in theater at the age of 11 and made his screen debut as young Perseus in Clash of the Titans.
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Anthony Horowitz is a English writer, journalist and novelist. It is no surprise for Horowitz to be involved in writing the upcoming series. He has been involved in writing television shows like, Foyle’s War (2002-2016) and the screenplay for Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker. Not only is he the author of the Alex Rider Series, but also the Diamond Brothers Series, The House of Silk:A Sherlock Holmes Novel and Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel and others.
Stay tuned for Exclusive Interviews of the cast and author, Anthony Horowitz.