Artemis Fowl, the wisecracking boy genius at the heart of Eoin Colfer’s acclaimed novels, has had a long and convoluted journey to the big-screen.
Even now, Disney’s live-action adaptation isn’t exactly making a grand theatrical arrival. Instead, the debonair criminal mastermind makes his feature debut on Disney+ and with somewhat of a whimper too.When Artemis Fowl I (Colin Farrell) is taken hostage, his abnormally-intelligent 12-year-old son Artemis Fowl II (Ferdia Shaw) must use his brains to figure out how to rescue his dad – discovering a mythical world in the process.
However, to retrieve an all-powerful device that can release his father, Fowl must start a war with the creatures protecting it; as threat looms closer, the Irish.
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