The problem with most movie action heroes, said Alex Pettyfer, who plays a teenage secret agent in the forthcoming film “Stormbreaker,” is that they are way too old.
“He said, like, ‘Imagine your dad on an ironing board, snowboarding down a mountain with a bunch of guys chasing him,’ ” Mr. Pettyfer, 16, said recently, recounting a preproduction conversation with the screenwriter of “Stormbreaker,” Anthony Horowitz. The full horror of the image is meant to speak for itself: Mr. Pettyfer’s father is “like 47, 48.”
To open in the United States in the early fall, “Stormbreaker,” based on Mr. Horowitz’s phenomenally popular book of the same title, tells the story of Alex Rider, a 14-year-old orphan drawn against his will into the grown-up world of espionage, massive explosions and dangling from skyscrapers by one arm. Most of the adults are dishonest, incompetent or psychopathic.
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