By Jake Kanter International TV Editor Amazon has snapped up the UK rights to Alex Rider, Eleventh Hour Films’ TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling teen spy novels.
The streamer will drop the first eight-part series on June 4, featuring Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a British teenager who has unknowingly been trained as a spy since childhood.
Alex Ryder has been two years in the making and was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions without a network or streamer attached.
Eleventh Hour is part-owned by Sony and its CEO Jill Green is the husband of Horowitz. The author has penned 12 books on the reluctant secret agent, selling more than 20M copies worldwide.
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