In June 2006, the producers signed a deal with Nintendo that made the Nintendo DS a prominent feature in the film, much like the Power Glove in The Wizard. [13] This is an upgrade from the Game Boy Color that Alex used in the novel version. A tie-in game, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker was also released on the said DS and its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance. In addition to the Nintendo marketing in the film, Alex's cell phone is a Nokia 7710 and uses a sodium pentothal pen to get to London, not a gun. Bennett, Ray (26 July 2006). "Stormbreaker". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 . Retrieved 22 May 2007. They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain’s top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle’s killers . . . In August 2006, the film was retitled Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker for North American release. A new poster and trailer were released along with the announcement. It was also revealed that the US premiere would take place on the Intrepid aircraft carrier at the Hudson River, New York City.

The next day, Alex is kidnapped by Sayle after hailing a taxi and taken at gunpoint to the top of a tall skyscraper. Before Sayle can shoot and kill Alex, however, he is shot by Gregorovich, who lands on the building in a helicopter. Gregorovich explains he had to kill Sayle because he had become an embarrassment to the people Gregorovich works for. Alex threatens to get revenge on Gregorovich for killing his uncle, but Gregorovich just laughs and flies away in the helicopter. Stormbreaker was intended by the novel's author, Anthony Horowitz, to be the first entry in a film franchise based on his Alex Rider series. [7] Horowitz, already an established and prolific screenwriter in British television, wrote the screenplay and worked very closely throughout the film's production with director Geoffrey Sax and producers Marc and Peter Samuelson. The Weinstein Company acquired the North American rights to the film, which was filmed in Summer 2005 with six weeks on the Isle of Man and a further six weeks in London. Some of the scenes of the school were filmed in The Grey Coat Hospital and Ballakermeen High School, Douglas, Isle of Man. [10] If that was real life, you’d be dead," the sergeant said. "What did I tell you? Sending me a child was a mistake. And a stupid, clumsy child who doesn’t look where he’s going . . . that’s even worse!" There were four of them. As Alex was soon to discover, the Special Operations Division of MI6 sent its agents to the same training center used by the Special Air Service—the SAS. Much of the training was based on SAS methods and this included the numbers and makeup of each team. So there were four men, each with their own special skills. And one boy, seemingly with none. He was the first to speak. Putting the gun down, he examined Alex with cold dark brown eyes. "So who the hell do you think you are?" he demanded.a b c "Stormbreaker (2006)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 May 2016.

Alex glanced at Wolf. Wolf looked the other way. What should he say? Should he even try to tell the truth? During a 2013 interview with the Financial Times, Horowitz stated that the Stormbreaker film was his greatest disappointment, stating that he "did not hate it but that it should have been the first of 10 and it wasn't." [20] Cancelled sequels [ edit ]

In 2005 a graphic novel adaptation of Stormbreaker was released in the United Kingdom and the United States. [9] The graphic novel was an adaptation of the screenplay written for the movie released the year after, [10] and was intended as a tie-in for the film. Later, after a debriefing by Alan Blunt and Mrs. Jones, Alex enters a taxi to go home. The driver is none other than Sayle, who holds Alex at gunpoint. He leads Alex to the top of a building where he is about to shoot Alex and gloats about returning to exact his revenge again, but is himself killed by Yassen Gregorovich, who lands in a helicopter. When Alex questions Yassen about why he shot Sayle, Yassen explains that Sayle had become an embarrassment to the people he (Yassen) worked for, so he had to be eliminated. Knowing that he is facing his uncle's killer, Alex tells Yassen he will one day kill him, but Yassen brushes aside the comment and advises Alex to drop the spy business and become a normal schoolboy again, before leaving in the helicopter. Lyall, Sarah (18 July 2006). "He Was a Teenage Spy, Surrounded by Treacherous Adults". The New York Times . Retrieved 22 May 2007.