Differences between Movie and Novel

[Rider rules]

I don't know who he is, but he is lame. Also, wasn't the script written by AH?

[isabelle]

Harvy Weinstien was like the "owner" of the movie, so to speak. Stormbreaker was "owned" by the weinstien company, so Harvy decided if it was going to play in America or not, which it didn't. Harvy told AH what to change and ,because Harvy controled the sucess of the movie, AH did what Harvy told him to.

[Mystic]

Ok, now I'm confused. It did play here in the U.S. but on limited screens. The closest theater that was playing it near me was pretty far out there. That's why I didn't see it in theaters. Besides, if I did, I would have walked out in the middle of the film. 

[DoubleONothing000]

The film was originally going to be more to the plot and for an older audience by a little bit. But this fellow you're talking about panicked at the last moment thinking that if they made it for say, 13 year olds and up, they wouldn't make enough money so they changed a lot of stuff to make it a lower age rating. Bummer. They have to decide, make them for younger kids or the teen audience. Either way, one age group is going to be disappointed.

[A.R.fan]

I don't personally like the film, but then I always prefer the books. They changed it too much, like in "I am number 4" the film was sooooooooo different to the book. ("Matilda", on the other hand, the film was way better.) Back to Alex Rider, he doesn't meet Sabina Pleasure until Skeleton Key (I think), and they also changed Herod Sayle's first name to something beginning with a D.... also they took out far too much of the story and it just didn't seem right. I think that film producers should go by the book for once, like with kid's Disney stories.... one can only dream

[Rider rules]

Why did they change the plot?! I want whoever did the Hunger Games to do a remake of Stormbreaker. Shame that the Peeta guy is a bit old to be Alex. (Peeta is 16, I think, Alex 14.) They should totally stick to the book! Anyway, some parents let their kids into 12As, or if it was a 12, get the movie. Nobody younger than at least 8 reads Alex Rider, generally. I would estimate most people start reading AR at maybe 10 (earliest).