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. Retrieved 22 January 2013.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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Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2008. The graphic novel was an adaptation of the screenplay written for the movie released the year after, and was intended as a tie-in for the film. In 2005 a graphic novel adaptation of Stormbreaker was released in the United Kingdom and the United States.

South Carolina Junior Book Award (2005) Īdaptations Graphic novel.

Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (2004).

Kirkus Reviews also commented that the book's plot was 'preposterous' but stated that the readers 'won't care'.

Common Sense Media praised Stormbreaker for its action sequences, but criticised its dialogue and logic. The aim of the attack was to kill hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren and their teachers.Ĭritical reception for Stormbreaker was mixed to positive, with the book being placed on multiple ALA lists. There he discovers the Stormbreaker computer factory where millions of computers were being filled with biological weapons which would give smallpox to the user. He is sent undercover to Port Tallen, Cornwall. The protagonist, Alex Rider, after the suspicious death of his uncle, secretly becomes a teenage spy for MI6. Ī film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in 2005. Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in 2005 received a California Young Reader Medal. The book was released in the United Kingdom on the 4th of September 2000, and in United States release on, where it became a New York Times Bestseller. Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series.

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