In May 2017, it was announced that ITV was developing a television adaptation of the Alex Rider novels. The series is being produced by Eleventh Hour Films, with Tutankhamen screenwriter and novelist Guy Burt acting as showrunner. Eleventh Hour Films is run by Horowitz's wife Jill Green. [8] Point Blanc has had at least three, used on various different editions; early reprints used "Alex Rider - we need you again" (where the original just used "From the author of the bestselling Stormbreaker"), although the audiobook used "I cannot be killed, Alex - the world is already mine...", and later versions used "High in the Alps, death waits for Alex Rider".

There's an unintentional one in Crocodile Tears, as jerkass journalist Harry Bulman is certainly a "horrible man." However Horowitz named him after a friend of his son. Manipulative Editing: Sarov records an interview with the Russian President while the latter is fantastically drunk and doesn’t care about anything. He plans to edit this to make the President look bad when the dust has blown over. The Cavalry: In Skeleton Key, Alex is about to be killed by The Dragon when the Russian navy storm the base. Although Alex still has to defeat The Dragon by himself, the raid provides the necessary distraction for him to do so, and disposes of the rest of Sarov's Mooks.The end of Scorpia was not intended to be this as Horowitz believed the audience would assume Alex would be fine.

Alex notes that when Alan Blunt gets angry over his accusations against Damian Cray in Eagle Strike, it is the first time he has ever shown any emotion at all (and it occurs to him that not many people disagree with Blunt to his face). Later, in Scorpia, Blunt is visibly afraid about what will happen if Scorpia's plan succeeds, and it is this that finally coerces Alex to agree to help him again; he compliments Alex for the first time after the COBRA meeting; and when he tells Alex the truth about how his parents died at the end of the book there is audible pain in his voice, and he attempts to comfort Alex for the only time in the series. In Snakehead, when Alex confronts him over how his treatment of Ash lead him to defect to Scorpia, he has the good grace to look embarrassed. Averted, however, in Scorpia Rising, as Razim needs Alex alive and without any physical marks on him. He also refuses to tell Alex what he is planning—Alex only finds out from one of his stupider subordinates. Crocodile Tears has references to the iPhone (January 2007), Assassin's Creed II (2009), and the Great Recession (started in 2007 but didn't really get going until fall '08). Book Ends: Both Stormbreaker and Russian Roulette end with Herod Sayle's assassination by Yassen Gregorovich, but from the perspectives of Alex and Yassen, respectively.Alice, The Queen of Hearts, The Cheshire Cat, The Mad Hatter or The March Hare from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.