Jones, his Number Two, Jack, the housekeeper who looks after Alex, Ian Rider, the uncle who is killed, and even Yassin Gregorovich, the assassin. Because we had eight hours to tell this story, we had to look at all the other characters in it – Blunt, the head of MI-6, Mrs. As the books continued, they got darker, and Alex became more mature, and all the things that happened to him obviously changed him and made him a deeper and a more thinking sort of person. POINT BLANC, the second of the ALEX RIDER books, is quite a short book, and because it’s one of the earlier ones, it’s more YA, it’s slightly more juvenile. HOROWITZ: Funnily enough, it’s the other way round, actually. Added to which, having eight hours in which to tell our story allows us to look much more deeply at Alex and his world, and to do more things.ĪX: Do you feel that it gives it more time to have the flavor of the book? That is, you can use anything as a template, but if you rush it too much, it doesn’t resemble the original. Do you feel that ALEX RIDER is better suited to adaptation as a TV series than as a film?ĪNTHONY HOROWITZ: In the present climate, almost certainly yes, because nowadays, most of the intelligent movies are being made for television, and I don’t think it would be very easy to compete with the vast budgets and scope of, for example, the Marvel action films. Over two exclusive interviews, one a sit-down at the Content LA event in Los Angeles and one an overseas phone call, Horowitz discusses the ALEX RIDER series.Īlex Rider – SOtto Farrant in ALEX RIDER – Season 2 | ©2020 IMDBbTVeason 1 – Episode 102ĪSSIGNMENT X: There had been a feature film adaptation, 2006’s STORMBREAKER, of your first Alex Rider book, for which you wrote the screenplay. Horowitz, an executive producer on ALEX RIDER, is married to fellow EP Jill Green, who is the head of Eleventh Hour Films. He got his TV writing start on the third season of ROBIN OF SHERWOOD. Horowitz’s television creations include the much-lauded FOYLE’S WAR and COLLISION. He has bestsellers for adults in the MAGPIE MURDERS and THE WORD IS MURDER series of books, along with his James Bond novels (sanctioned by the Ian Fleming estate) and Sherlock Holmes creations. Horowitz, a Londoner himself, has a succession of hits in both literature and television. Students have been graduating with alarming differences from when they were first sent there by fed-up parents. Alex is sent to impersonate a wealthy, dissolute youth in order to infiltrate the mysterious, isolated private school of the title. Season 1 of ALEX RIDER is primarily based on the second book in the series, POINT BLANC, with teleplays by Guy Burt. The clandestine British government group that employed Ian presses Alex to go undercover for them, and soon he becomes a spy himself. When Ian is murdered, Alex discovers to his shock that his relative wasn’t a banker, but rather a secret agent. Otto Farrant plays Alex, a normal London adolescent being raised by his Uncle Ian (Andrew Buchan). Plus, Adékoluẹjo and O’Connor turn in charming performances O’Connor is especially lovable as the enthusiastic, loyal Tom.ALEX RIDER – Season 1 Key Art | ©2020 AmazonĪlex Rider is the name of the hero of writer Anthony Horowitz’s phenomenally successful YA book series, which has sold a combined total of over twenty million copies all over the world.ĪLEX RIDER is also the title of the new series about the character, currently streaming its first season, and renewed for a second, on Amazon and IMDBtv. Their care and concern for Alex - and Alex’s care and concern for them - makes the show even more affecting than it might have been otherwise. Brenock O’Connor as Alex’s best friend Tom, and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo as his caretaker, Jack Starbright, create lived-in relationships with Ferrante’s Alex. The emphasis on Alex’s normal life humanizes him and grounds some of the more fantastical elements of the story. Like Jennifer Garner’s Sydney Bristow, Alex is surrounded by dedicated friends that are inadvertently drawn into his supposedly secret spy work. Given the story’s focus, it’s tempting to compare Alex Rider to the James Bond or Jason Bourne movies, but the show might be more accurately thought of as a gender-swapped, aged-down Alias. This means it introduces some interesting original characters, including the intriguing Kyra (Marli Siu), who eventually teams with Alex to figure out the secrets of the school. The show also makes the wise decision to change Point Blanc from the all-boys school of the books to a co-ed institution.
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