Alex Rider: Where Was the TV Show Filmed?

of Alex Rider: Where Was the TV Show Filmed? Japleen Khera
Updated August 6, 2022

Only the most extraordinary things can be expected when a name as great as Anthony Horowitz, the author of the legendary ‘Alex Rider book collection, turns into an executive producer. He brings upon the screen Guy Burt adapts a web series by the same title, and the concept. Directed under the keen vision of Andreas Prochaska and Christopher Smith, the teen spy television is an action-packed story of a boy who takes on the responsibility of saving the world.  It practically leaves the audience breathless from the incessant adventurous journey that Otto Farrant, playing the eponymous character.

Alex Rider Filming Locations

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Eleventh Hour Films came together to produce the TV series that premiered on 4 June 2020 on Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom. The filming was completed within an intensive six-month schedule in March 2019. But at what locations were the exotic scenes shot?

Sinaia, Romania

In the series’s first season, Alex is a student at Point Blanc Academy, located in the French Alps, the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in the world. However, the location of the shooting is quite different from the setting in the story. These scenes have been filmed around Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania. It is a renowned tourist destination for snowboarders and skiers. Also a winter sports hub, it is near the Bucegi mountains. Romania is considered a profitable place for filmmakers to carry out their creative process as the country provides incentives in exchange for the promotion and popularity it gains.

A remote setting was chosen to capture the action-packed feats. It always snowed so heavily that the cast and crew had to use Ski-doos (snow motor automobiles) to move around the set. Farrant even performed a dangerous stunt where he slid down a mountain using an ironing board.

Series producer Matt Chaplin was even intimidated by the prospect of bringing to life the “iconic sequence” but he is glad he did so in Romania as he, “quickly identified Romania as the place to do it. They have a film-friendly infrastructure, the right climate and topography, and had the right location to use as the basis for Point Blanc, which we are enhancing with effects.” 

Hornsey Town Hall, London

When we see a scene from the inside of Point Blanc school, we are actually looking at the interiors of Hornsey Town Hall. The Romanian backdrop was used for only three weeks, and then the shooting resumed in London for five months, around areas like Bermondsey, Crouch End, the South Bank, and the Shard. 

Home Counties of England

The majority of the shoot is centered in the Home Counties of England. For instance, indoor scenes like the one in which Alex and his not-so-regular family are consuming a meal. On IMDB, the show’s production team has listed a couple of surreal locations that have been explored and utilized for the teenage spy action series.

Coke Street, London

One of the major filming locations, according to the IMDB list, is Coke Street in London, England. It is located at Whitechapel, London, just off Adler Street and the A13. 

Bermondsey, Southwark, England

The crew even had to temporarily rename a few streets across London to match the names given in the novel. Shooting sets were parked right at the corners, and traffic was redirected to carry on with the filming process as discreetly as possible. But Alex Rider’s fans were too excited to be stopped from capturing a glimpse or two.

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