There’s a new game here at The Movie Blog. I call it WILD SPECULATION where we will make an observation based on an internet rumour or information of our own that we just wildly speculate on with no basis in reality.
Today that rumour is going to revolve around a tidbit that Megan Fox might replace Angelina Jolie the Tomb Raider franchise.
Simon at Hardcore Nerdity reports:
The new Entertainment website HitFix says there’s a chance that Megan Fox will reprise the Lara Croft character for Paramount in a new installment of the Tomb Raider franchise. The source is very sketchy (some Euro- Spanish article)
Its not bad enough that because of one or two images online where Megan is wearing makeup very similar to the very popular and trendy style that Angelina was sporting, people want to ignorantly label here as a Jolie-Wannabe clone. Personally I would think the full lips might be a comparable feature but otherwise I see no comparisons.
However I would not be eager to see a Tomb Raider movie with Megan Fox. Don’t get me wrong, I think that Megan Fox is plenty hot enough and can ooze the sex appeal of the character (which is never illustrated in game – just a fanboy assumption combined with Jolie’s performance) but she doesn’t have the physique to be a convincing action girl.
Even Jolie’s recent waif status would disqualify her for that matter.
As illustrated above, Jolie still had some meat to her sexy frame while Fox (still hot) is better as a lingerie model than a convincing sassy adventurer.
Also, Jolie has some maturity to her that gives some credibility to the whole “world traveling treasure hunter” that I just can’t be convinced of in a 22 year old.
I think this is just a fluff rumour to further advance the desperate attempt to parallel Fox to Jolie. But if it did turn out to be true, would you want to see Fox as Lara Croft??
