Sixteen-year-old film novice Alex Pettyfer plays 14-year-old Alex Rider, the orphaned, mystery-solving teen spy from Anthony Horowitz's best-selling Harry Potter-meets-James Bond book series. Ewan McGregor is the uncle who can't protect the young master Rider from nefarious forces, Mickey Rourke is a villain looking to wreak havoc on British schools, and Bill Nighy, so good in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, shows up as a heartless intelligence officer named Mr. Blunt. ''He's described in the book as a gray man with gray hair, gray eyes, gray spectacles, and a gray mind,'' says Nighy. ''I was encouraged to lighten it up a bit.''
Image credit: Stormbreaker: Liam Daniel
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Stormbreaker (2006)
Details Limited Release: Oct 13, 2006; Rated: PG; Length: 93 Minutes; Genre: Action/Adventure; With: Ewan McGregor and Alex Pettyfer; Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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