Stormbreaker
is one of a series of books written by Anthony Horowitz, one that was adapted
for a film of the same name (originally named Alex Ryder: Operation
Stormbreaker) the advantage of 6 different production companies and over a
dozen distributions did not stop it taking a fall in the box office. Recovering
just $23.6 million of its $40 million budget. So where did it all go wrong? It
certainly wasn’t lack of promotional material. Hoping for it to be the next
billion dollar film series, like Harry Potter was becoming, they had very high
profile marketing, in the UK with BBC and ITV appearances.
No, the reviews
for this movie are average at best, 5.6 on IDMB, on 33% on rotten tomatoes. But
there’s no reason why another book series could rival Harry Potter, let’s dig
into Stormbreaker and see why this wasn’t the franchise for it.
