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Guilty Pleasures #4 Stormbreaker

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.