#Alex rider point blanc tv#
The TV version of Smithers is slim from the start, and Stellenbosch is arguably a very attractive person and something of a fashionista. There are a couple of changes to the way characters look, as well: Point Blanc’s Miss Stellenbosch is described as looking hideously ugly in the book, and gadget-master Smithers is described as being very overweight – although, in later books, you find out he was wearing a fat suit. In both versions, Alex and Wolf eventually team up at Point Blanc. In the show, Wolf has completed his training well before Alex shows up, but they still meet in the early stages of Alex’s story (when Wolf tortures Alex into singing Jake Bugg on a loop). In the books, Alex and Wolf go through SAS training together. It makes sense to bring him in earlier for the TV show, giving Alex more of a support network and making his world feel a bit more fleshed out.Īlex Rider Books: Revisiting the Geeky Gadgets and Cool Spy Moments By Rob Leane In fact, he didn’t appear until Scorpia, the fifth book in the series. Tom Harris, Alex’s best mate from school, doesn’t factor into the book versions of Stormbreaker and Point Blanc at all. In the first couple of books, Jack doesn’t feature much while Alex is off galavanting. (That scene, very similar to the book, is still a bit cringe though.)Īlex’s new legal guardian, Jack Starbright, is made aware of Alex’s spy antics a little bit sooner than she is in the book, meaning she gets much more agency and freedom to have her own subplots during these formative stories. Plus, Alex being a bit older makes it slightly less awkward when you put him in a scene with a young woman in a bikini. Introducing Alex to the spy world a couple of years later into his life does make the fact he is so capable seem a little bit more believable. Poor TV Alex – he missed out on a holiday to Paris! Rejigged Charactersįans of the books will probably also have noticed some rather significant changes to some of the characters.Īlex, for one thing, has aged up from 14 to 16. In the TV show, Alex is drugged at Point Blanc and passes out while brushing his teeth in his room at the school. It is in a fancy Parisian hotel that Alex is drugged, giving the baddies a chance to fiddle around with him while unconscious.
The Point Blanc book gives Alex and Stellenbosch a stop-off in Paris on their way to Point Blanc. Alex’s uncle had already been killed, long before the second book begins, so the book contains no instance of Ian investigating Point Blanc before being killed. In the novels, it isn’t until the second book that Alex is sent to investigate Point Blanc, with the ominous school in the Alps giving book two its name. In the show, there’s the whole scene of social services and immigration showing up on their doorstep to illustrate the point. In the book, the threat is merely verbal. In both the Stormbreaker book and the Alex RiderTV show, the British secret service threatens to have Jack Starbright deported in order to motivate Alex into accepting the mission. In both versions, Alex heads there on his bike and ends up putting himself on MI6’s radar.
In the Alex Rider TV show, he uses the much more modern Find My Phone service to track down the car. In the Stormbreaker book, Alex spots a shifty van and then uses a directory enquiries book to find a breaker’s yard that is housing his dead uncle’s car.
In the TV version, although the subject of the investigation has changed and Ian isn’t in his car when he gets shot, it is still the expert assassin Yassen Gregorovich that pulls the trigger.
However, in the show, we are given a few scenes of Ian and Alex living together and interacting before Ian gets murdered.ĭuring the Stormbreaker book, we learn that Ian Rider was shot and killed by Yassen Gregorovich as he tried to escape the Stormbreaker facility in his car – he was on the way to report his findings back to base. In the books, MI6 sends in Alex to investigate Stormbreaker in his uncle’s stead, giving the teenage spy his first mission.Īlso, it’s worth noting that the first book opens with Alex finding out that his uncle has died, and readers learn more about Ian Rider later (as Alex finds it all out). In the books, Alex’s uncle Ian is killed while investigating a millionaire’s computer project (the computer was named Stormbreaker, giving the first book its name). Let’s start things off with one of the biggest changes: the Alex RiderTV show has conflated together the first two books in the Anthony Horowitz novel series.
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