Alex Rider: TV series based on Anthony Horowitz’s books heading to Amazon Prime Video

The books were previously adapted in 2006 film ‘Stormbreaker’

A new TV series based on Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider spy novels is coming to Amazon Prime Video in June.

Twenty years after the first book in the hugely popular young adult action series was released, the world of teenage spy Rider is being turned into a TV show.

Based on Horowitz’s second novel, Point Blanc, the show follows Rider, played by Otto Farrant, a London-based school boy who has unknowingly been training all his life to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and become a spy.

The eight part series will be released on Amazon's streaming service in the UK on 4 June and stars Game of Thrones’ Stephen Dillane and Line of Duty’s Vicky McClure as the leaders of a secret MI6 department.

It’s not the first time that Rider has been brought to the screen, having been adapted in the 2006 film Stormbreaker based on the series’ first book of the same name.

Starring Alex Pettyfer as the teenage spy and with a star-studded cast including Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Silverstone, the film was intended to be the first in a movie franchise. After it failled to break even in the box office and received poor reviews it, was considered a flop.