June 29, 2005 - Director Geoffrey Sax has been busy signing on actors to fill out the cast of his next film,
"Stormbreaker," based on the novel by Anthony Horowitz. Alicia Silverstone, Damian Lewis, Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Missi Pyle, Ashley Walters, and Sarah Bolger have committed to do the movie, with Alex Pettyfer set to star.
Ewan McGregor ("Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith") will have a cameo in the film.
Pettyer will play 14 year-old Alex Rider, an orphan who has to work for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency after his uncle dies under mysterious circumstances. Alex is recruited to try and find his uncle's killers and suddenly finds himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Horowitz adapted his novel for the screen with Mark and Peter Samuelson, Steve Christian and Andreas Grosch producing the film.
SOURCE: Variety
