Alex stared at the man who was the director of point blank, at the whitepaper skin and the eyes burning behind the red eyeglasses. Investigations into the accidental deaths of two of the worlds most powerful men have revealed just one link. Point blank when an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, mi6 assigns alex rider to the case. The screenplay by anthony horowitz is based on his 2000 novel stormbreaker, the first novel in the alex rider series. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Apr 15, 2002 this book features a 14 year old spy named alex rider swinging back to action. Alex pettyfer is a general pretty boy who lacks charisma and talent. Stellenbosch who runs an finishing school in french alps. Alex rider is plucked from his life as an average schoolboy to pit his wits as a spy for mi6 against the frightening doctor grief and his evil plans. Alex rider or alex friend then finds a secret passageway to a third floor at point blanc which is normally off limits. After the death of his uncle, the 14yearold schoolboy alex rider is forced by the special operations division of the uks secret intelligence service, mi6, into a mission which will save millions of lives. At that moment, alex had figured out the secret behind griefs school and reported his findings back to the mi6 headquarters. Feb 01, 2014 investigations into the accidental deaths of two of the worlds most powerful men have revealed just one link.
Point blanc, on the other hand, is more about alex riders ingenuity and inquisitiveness and feels more in line with the earlier bond films. I say this because the main story is alex learning how to find things out in a normal but unique environment. Point blank is a 1967 american crime film directed by john boorman, starring lee marvin, costarring angie dickinson, keenan wynn and carroll oconnor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel the hunter by donald e. Alex rider is a 14yearold engaged by mi6 as a secret agent. If more hollywood movies were like this id be a happy man. Alex follows him to his home, situated on a barge, but is caught by the police after using a. Apr 01, 2005 this book is10x better than stormbreaker,which is the first alex rider book. Alex rider point blank trailer anthony horowitz youtube. See all 8 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
Jan 21, 2020 this is my own trailer if point blank was a movie. The setting for point blank starts in the spring of modern day england. The series comprises eleven novels, as well as six graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book. Stormbreaker is a 2006 action spy film directed by geoffrey sax.
The film stars alex pettyfer as alex rider, and also stars mickey rourke, bill. On his second mission, alex rider must infiltrate the mysterious point blanc academy. Point blank is a wonderfully acted, action packed and twist filled film, with some great chase scenes. It is a realistic city environment with the casual traffic and many restaurants. A master of the spy thriller, anthony is the only writer authorized. Young adult, espionage, action, mystery, boarding school blurb. He has also been featured in three short stories written by horowitz based in the same canon as the series. There is no point blank movie, the stormbreaker movie was a financial bomb therefore there was never a green light to continue to the next movie. Point blank alex rider book 2 kindle edition by horowitz. Full of hightech gadgets, wild chases, and mysterious disappearances, this. Its up to 14yearold alex rider to find out why and to face the maniacal man who has.
Personally, i found the service excellent, the book arrived on time and my daughter is delighted. Anthony horowitzs alex rider teen spy novels to be. Point blanc, on the other hand, is more about alex rider s ingenuity and inquisitiveness and feels more in line with the earlier bond films. With ronke adekoluejo, haluk bilginer, otto farrant, karl farrer. Samuel, a male nurse, saves the life of a thief whose henchmen take samuels wife hostage and force him to spring their boss. Stellenbosch from point blanc and has dinner with her at a hotel in france.
A quiz on the second book of the alex rider series. After completing his first mission with mi6, teenage spy alex rider is sent on another quest. The book was released in the united kingdom on september 3, 2001 and in north america on april 15, 2002, under the alternate title point blank. With gilles lellouche, roschdy zem, gerard lanvin, elena anaya. Isolated far above the snowline in the french alps, point blanc claims to set the troubled teenage children of the ultrarich back onto the right track. Point blanc alex rider paperback 1 april 2005 by anthony horowitz author visit amazons anthony horowitz page. When alex rider learns that his uncle ian was killed in the line of duty as a british spy and not a car accident like hes been told everything changes for this otherwise normal teen.
Jul 19, 2011 shot on location in wide lens, point blank is an exhilarating nonstop ride through paris streets, subways, hospitals, warehouses, and police stations, as samuel quickly finds himself pitted. Alex rider is at school and witnesses a man called skoda selling drugs to some of his classmates. In this setting the story introduces the main character alex rider. The story seemed to move along faster, especially the last half. Point blanc is the second book in the alex rider series, written by british author, anthony horowitz. Alex rider, the reluctant teenage superspy, must infiltrate point blanc, a mysterious private reform school for superwealthy teens. Before he knows it, alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something feels wrong. The created movie trailer for the best selling book of anthony horowitz alex rider, point blank to be clear this is not an official trailer this has been created by a student scenes from.
Content ratings based on a 05 scale where 0 no objectionable content and 5 an excessive or disturbing level of content. Boorman directed the film at marvins request and marvin played a central role in the film s development. The violence, though tame by adult fiction standards, continues to surprise me but not in a negative sense. Alex rider 2 point blancgeminiproject movie trailer youtube. While i liked the first alex rider book stormbreaker, i think i enjoyed point blank more. The major conflict in the story point blank is a man vs. In late september 2019, andreas prochaska was announced as the director with otto farrant starring as alex rider. A master of the spy thriller, anthony is the only writer authorized by. The second time this is shown is in the final chapter of the novel when alex discovers that his clone has eluded escape and is close to killing the real alex rider at his school. How alex rider moved to tv as sony takes it out to global.
Grief is doing something wrong when he witnesses him murder one of his co workers. After the death of his uncle, the 14yearold schoolboy alex rider is forced by the special operations division of the uks secret intelligence service, mi6, into a. Point blanc alex rider series investigations into the accidental deaths of two of the worlds most powerful men have revealed just one link. Alex pettyfer is playing alex rider in point blank. Boorman directed the film at marvins request and marvin played a central role in the.
Point blank alex rider adventure paperback february 16, 2006. Chapter 10 alex notices that the school isnt normal. Mi6 assigns alex rider, 14, undercover at an elite prep school for teen rebels after two fathers are assassinated. After a slightly unsuccessful film adaptation in 2006 starring alex pettyfer main image, anthony horowitzs bestselling alex rider book series. The series comprises eleven novels, as well as five graphic novels, three short stories a supplementary book and a film expected to release in 2020.
The book was released in the united kingdom on september. Alex rider says it was like meeting a skeleton, and for the moment he was lost for words. Horowitz teamed with eleventh hours film, run by his wife jill green, to reboot it for television, taking the second book in the series, point blanc. With alex pettyfer, mickey rourke, sophie okonedo, sarah bolger. I own none of the included movie clips and audio footage. Shot on location in wide lens, point blank is an exhilarating nonstop ride through paris streets, subways, hospitals, warehouses, and police stations, as samuel quickly finds himself pitted. While going undercover at point blank alex finds out that dr. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading point blank alex rider book 2. The movements of the mans mouth didnt quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. Point blank by anthony horowitz alex rider, book 2. He uses what he knows from his personal experience in school and applies it to this one with a twist. Point blank alex rider book 2 kindle edition by horowitz, anthony. Secret weapon, christmas at gunpoint and incident in nice. Apr 21, 2012 the created movie trailer for the best selling book of anthony horowitz alex rider, point blank to be clear this is not an official trailer this has been created by a student scenes from.
Luckily, the ending doesnt signal and a sequel, so point blank should be safe from getting ruined. Point blanc isnt going to be a movie until you hear it. Alex rider is a title character and the protagonist of the alex rider novel series by british author anthony horowitz. Anthony horowitz is a worldrenowned screenwriter for film and television, having received multiple awards. What is the date point blanc alex rider the movie will come. It is the same exact as the first floor which all the kids stay on besides for the fact that the televisions are all on and they are showing the kids in their rooms on the first floor. The series is aimed primarily at teens and young adults. Alex rider tv series planned for itv point blanc adapted by guy. What is the date point blanc alex rider the movie will. Point blanc isnt going to be a movie until you hear it from anthony horowitz himself on his website. Can alex alert the world to the truth before its too late. In july 2018, it was announced that eleventh hour films would be collaborating with sony pictures television to produce an eightepisode adaptation of point blanc as part of their upcoming alex rider television series. As the action moves from london to the french alps, the tension mounts, making this book very difficult to put.
The villains are more over the top and alex gets into quite a few physical scrapes in dealing with them. Point blanc by anthony horowitz audio extract by walker. The eightepisode series has been scripted by bafta awardwinning screenwriter guy burt, and will follow reluctant spy rider as he infiltrates a controversial. Grief, the director of point blanc, and makes his only friend, james sprintz. Alex rider is a series of spy novels by anthony horowitz about a teenage spy named alex rider. Point blank alex rider 2 anthony horowitz penguin usa paper 2011 from publishers weekly powerful, privileged and screwed up, 16 boys in a boarding school suddenly turn into model students. Based on the bestselling alex rider books by anthony horowitz. Posing as the son of a wealthy businessman, alex goes to the school, only to be weirded out by what he sees. Teenage spy alex riders exploits are coming to tv in an adaptation of point blanc from sony and british producer eleventh hour films. The adventures of a reluctant teen spy on his missions to save the world. This book features a 14 year old spy named alex rider swinging back to action. Secret weapon, christmas at gunpoint and incident in nice alex is a boy who works for mi6, the british international intelligence service. The first part in which its shown occurs when alex is recovering in the hospital after escaping point blanc.
The created movie trailer for the best selling book of anthony horowitz alex rider, point blank to be clear this is not an official trailer this has been created by a student. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. After a slightly unsuccessful film adaptation in 2006 starring alex pettyfer main image, anthony horowitzs bestselling alex rider book series is coming to tv, with reluctant teen spy alex set. Mi6 assigns alex rider, 14, undercover at an elite prep school for t. Lots of adventure,guns and baddies perfect for adventurous book readers. In 2003, the novel was listed on the bbcs survey the big read. Point blanc is the second book in the alex rider series, written by british author anthony horowitz. Michael j roscoe was a careful man the car that drove him to work at quarter past seven each morning was a custom made mercedes.
Point blanc or point blank, an alex riderseries novel by anthony horowitz other entertainment edit point blank comics, a comic book by ed brubaker and colin wilson. Alex rider series heads to tv with sony, eleventh hour variety. Alex realizes that he had missed key points that would have led him to expect an attack from his clone at any point. Oct 22, 2017 point blank by anthony horowitz my rating. The first novel, stormbreaker, was released in the united kingdom in 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006 starring alex pettyfer. Point blanc or point blank, an alex rider series novel by anthony horowitz other entertainment edit point blank comics, a comic book by ed brubaker and colin wilson. As the book progresses the setting changes to a mysterious finishing school in the. Variety is reporting that anthony horowitzs teenage superspy alex rider is heading to the small screen with sony and eleventh hour films teaming up for a tv adaptation of point blanc, the second book in horowitzs book series. Just returned to school after his first outing as a spy, the fourteenyearold an ordinary schoolboy in an ordinary west london school almost immediately finds he cant hold himself back when he sees that the skoda of the.