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Alex Rider is a British spy thriller television series based on the novel series of the same name by Anthony Horowitz. Adapted by Guy Burt, it stars Otto Farrant as the eponymous character, who is recruited by a subdivision of MI6 as a teenage spy to undertake espionage missions. The series is Amazon's first scripted British Amazon Original series.
- Which Alex Rider Book Is The TV Show Based on?
- Was Alex's Uncle Ian Rider in The Books?
- Why Doesn't Alex Rider Work For MI6?
- Was The Character Kyra in The Books?
- Wasn't Point Blanc An All-Boys School in The Book?
- Will There Be Gadgets in The Alex Rider TV Show?
The TV show borrows the opening elements from the first book, Stormbreaker, in which Alex Rider first finds out that his uncle Ian has died - and discovers that he wasn't a banker at all, but was in reality a British secret service agent. However, the bulk of the series follows the main storylines in Point Blanc, the second Alex Rider book, in whic...
Stormbreaker, the first book in the series, kicks off with Alex Rider and his housekeeper, Jack, discovering that Ian Rider has been killed in a car crash after forgetting to wear his seatbelt - something that immediately raises Alex's suspicion. In the show's pilot episode, however, we get to meet Ian Rider and see him at work as a spy - and inter...
In the books, it's made clear that Alan Blunt, Mrs Jones, and eventually Alex Rider all work for MI6 - but in the show, that's been changed, with Blunt now heading up a murky, secretive subdivision of the British secret service. Screenwriter Guy Burt told RadioTimes.com:"The books are quite specific about Alex being employed by MI6 - I have made hi...
Screenwriter Guy Burt has created a brand new female character, Kyra, played by Marli Siu, and who wasn't in the books. "We've introduced a character who's not in the book, called Kyra, [she] is a girl at Point Blanc, the school where Alex gets sent," Burt told RadioTimes.com. "And... my vision for her was to have somebody who pretty much immediate...
In the book Point Blanc, the school of the same name is exclusively for the problem-sons of billionaires. Alex Rider attends the school while undercover as the son of a British businessman, and there meets various scions of wealthy families, including: James Sprintz, Hugo Vries, Tom McMorin, Nicholas Marc, Cassian James and Joe Canterbury. However,...
Both Anthony Horowitz and Guy Burt have said that there will be fewer gadgets in the TV show. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Horowitz said that the show's creators were all keen to steer clear of "childishness" in the show - and that includes the gadgets. "There aren't many gadgets in this at all, we've rather pulled back on the gadgets, because the g...
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Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around a teenaged spy named Alex Rider and are primarily aimed towards young adults. The series currently comprises 14 novels, as well as seven graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book.
Alex Rider: Created by Guy Burt. With Otto Farrant, Vicky McClure, Brenock O'Connor, Stephen Dillane. Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.
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- 2020-11-13
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Otto Farrant, Vicky McClure, Brenock O'Connor
May 13, 2020 · A new TV series based on Anthony Horowitz ’s Alex Rider spy novels is coming to Amazon Prime Video in June. Twenty years after the first book in the hugely popular young adult action...
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Jun 8, 2020 · Let’s start things off with one of the biggest changes: the Alex Rider TV show has conflated together the first two books in the Anthony Horowitz novel series. In the books, Alex’s uncle Ian...
Alex Rider is a coming of age spy-thriller series based on the best-selling, global phenomenon book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz, which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
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