Whats the news about the Alex film?
The rights to the Alex Rider books were bought about three years ago and I’ve written the screenplay based on STORMBREAKER. The film is going to cost about £20m to make and I believe the producers have now raised the money so production could start as early as spring 2005. But in the film world nothing is certain. We were on the verge of making the film two years ago and then Agent Cody Banks suddenly appeared and that was that. My biggest fear is that the film will get made and that it will disappoint. I think Alex works because people can imagine him. Everyone has their own idea of what he sounds like and looks like. Put him up on a screen and you change all that. A film is sort of inevitable but to be honest I’m in no hurry to see it.
