Amazon Picks Up UK Rights For Alex Rider From Sony Films

Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television, the show is based on the second novel in Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider novels, Point Blanc. All eight episodes of the series will launch on Amazon on June 4.

The show was produced under a unique funding model that saw distributor Sony come on board in 2018 to fully finance the project without a lead commissioning broadcaster or platform attached.

The series stars Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a London-based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood to be a spy. Pressured to help investigate his uncle’s death, and how it connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires, Alex goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc.

In addition to Farrant, “Alex Rider” stars Stephen Dillane as Alan Blunt, commander of The Department, a secret underworld offshoot of MI6; Vicky McClure as Mrs. Jones, Blunt’s second in command; Brenock O’Connor as Rider’s best friend Tom Harris; Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ as Jack Starbright; Ace Bhattii as Crawley; Marli Siu as Kyra and Andrew Buchan as Ian Rider.