'Alex Rider': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and all you need to know about the young adult spy thriller on IMDb TV
Alex Rider is a coming-of-age spy-thriller series based on the best-selling, global phenomenon book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The series will follow Alex Rider, a London-based teenager, who is recruited by a subdivision of MI6 as a teenage spy to infiltrate places that others are unable to.
The show will be available for free for US audiences since it will air on IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, which has bought the US rights to the show. Adapted by Guy Burt, it is 'The Eleventh Hour Films' and Sony Pictures Television production. The show has already been greenlit for a second season.
Release Date
The show's first season with eight episodes will drop simultaneously on IMDb TV on November 13.
Plot
Alex Rider stars Otto Farrant as the eponymous character, who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage. He is pressured to help investigate his uncle’s death (who he discovers was with MI6) and how his death connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires. Alex reluctantly assumes a new identity as a "troubled" teenager and goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc.
Isolated far above the snowline in the French Alps, Point Blanc claims to set the troubled teenage children of the ultra-rich back onto the right track. As Alex digs deeper, he discovers the students are in fact the subjects of a disturbing plan which Alex will have to risk his life to stop. The season is based on the second book in the franchise, 'Point Blanc'.
Cast
Otto Farrant
Otto Farrant plays Alex Rider, the reluctant teenage spy. Farrant began performing at the Young Vic, the National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe theatre when he was only 11. He made his film debut as the young Perseus in 'Clash of the Titans'. In 2013, Farrant starred as Thomas Grey in the BBC historical drama 'The White Queen' and as Petya Rostov in the BBC historical drama serial 'War & Peace'. He also played Nigel Wilson in the 2018 BBC miniseries 'Mrs. Wilson'.
Ronke Adekoluejo
Ronke Adekoluejo plays Jack Starbright, Alex's housekeeper, who is the only adult in his life after his uncle dies. Ronke Adekoluejo is an actress and writer who starred in the Netflix musical 'Been So Long' and in 'Christopher Robin'. She also played Penny in both 'Extremis' and 'The Pyramid at the End of the World' episodes, alongside Peter Capaldi in 'Doctor Who'.
Brenock O'Connor
Brenock O'Connor plays Tom Harris, Alex's best friend and the only other person he considers his family, besides Jack Starbright. O'Connor is known for playing Olly in the HBO fantasy TV series 'Game of Thrones'. He has also been in 'Derry Girls', 'Dickensian' and 'Young Hunters: The Beast of Bevendean'.
Creators
Guy Burt wrote the eight-episode adaptation of 'Point Blanc', the second book in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. The series is directed by Andreas Prochaska and Christopher Smith.
Trailer
We see Alex Rider getting back his friend Tom's phone after it is confiscated and we see that he is more athletic and good at breaking into places than an average teenager. Soon, he is contacted by a secret division of the MI6 who want him to go undercover where they can't because he is a teenager.
His mission is to find out what is really going on at the elite boarding school for troubled teenagers. But the students there are weird and both Tom and Jack Starbright are worried for his safety. There are some gorgeous action sequences on snow-clad mountains, which will make the show worth watching.
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