Stormbreaker to Have a DS Prop

A DS as a gadget? Sounds cool and enthralling.

Nintendo today announced that the company’s DS handheld system is bound for the big screen. The device will play a key role in the upcoming movie Stormbreaker, a teen-spy thriller based on the Alex Rider series of books by Anthony Horowitz. In the film, a Hot Rod Red Nintendo DS is to be used as the main character’s primary spy-gadget.

“Along with writer Anthony Horowitz, we asked ourselves how the Secret Service would get secret tools into the hands of a 14-year-old spy,” said Peter Samuelson, one of the film’s producers. “Nintendo DS is the perfect fit: Alex’s spyware hides in plain sight. Audiences will be thrilled to see how it helps Alex get out of a host of heart-pounding predicaments.â€?

No comment was made about whether the device in question would be an Original DS, or one of Nintendo’s new DS Lites. The qualifier of it being “Hot Rod Red� might be a tell, as currently there has been a red Original DS released, while no such color is yet available for the Lite.

The movie’s protagonist, Alex, uses different DS game cartridges for the system’s various “spyâ€? functions. While Alex can use these carts to turn his DS into a eavesdropping device or a smoke bomb, consumers should not expect such types of software to be available for purchase. “While the Nintendo DS is one of the most versatile gaming systems available, we unfortunately have no plans to make any DS spy-related functions available to the general public,” explains George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications.

Stormbreaker is scheduled to release in the UK on July 21 and in the US on October 6. Worldwide release begins in August.

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