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20-08-05, 03:28 AM
Alex Pettyfer will play Alex Rider, the 14-year-old hero of British author Horowitz’s spy thriller Stormbreaker.
Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise") is directing the $43 million-budgeted film. Filming starts July 4 at Pinewood Studios and on the Isle of Man.
He will be surrounded by a transatlantic ensemble cast including Mickey Rourke, Sophie Okonedo, Bill Nighy, Alicia Silverstone, Missi Pyle, Ashley Walters, Damian Lewis and Sarah Bolger, plus a cameo by Ewan McGregor.
Rourke will play the villain, a megalomaniac businessman, with Pyle as his PR assistant. Nighy and Okonedo play MI6 spymasters, Silverstone is Alex’s housekeeper and Bolger is his potential girlfriend. Lewis plays a Russian assassin and Walters a British soldier.
Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider is told that his uncle was killed in a car accident.
But Alex starts to unravel the mysterious truth when he discovers that his uncles windshield was riddled with bullet holes. As Alex ventures deeper into his uncle’s secret life, he finds himself running from terrorists and working for the government. Can he handle the mission? The fate of England depends on it.
“Stormbreaker” is the first in a series of six Alex Rider books so far.
Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise") is directing the $43 million-budgeted film. Filming starts July 4 at Pinewood Studios and on the Isle of Man.
He will be surrounded by a transatlantic ensemble cast including Mickey Rourke, Sophie Okonedo, Bill Nighy, Alicia Silverstone, Missi Pyle, Ashley Walters, Damian Lewis and Sarah Bolger, plus a cameo by Ewan McGregor.
Rourke will play the villain, a megalomaniac businessman, with Pyle as his PR assistant. Nighy and Okonedo play MI6 spymasters, Silverstone is Alex’s housekeeper and Bolger is his potential girlfriend. Lewis plays a Russian assassin and Walters a British soldier.
Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider is told that his uncle was killed in a car accident.
But Alex starts to unravel the mysterious truth when he discovers that his uncles windshield was riddled with bullet holes. As Alex ventures deeper into his uncle’s secret life, he finds himself running from terrorists and working for the government. Can he handle the mission? The fate of England depends on it.
“Stormbreaker” is the first in a series of six Alex Rider books so far.