Tomb Raider looks to be getting another feature film treatment on its way, but not with the actress rumoured over the last few days. However one thing is clear; It will be a relaunch.
Yesterday I wrote about the wild speculation that Megan Fox could be taking up the khaki hotpants and dual pistols, but Fox’s management denies she was ever considered. Fair enough, I didn’t like the idea to begin with.
Warners Bros. and producer Dan Lin are in early development on a a reboot of “Tomb Raider,” the popular video game action franchise.
“Tomb Raider,” which was published in 1996 by a London-based video game company called Eidos, was a wildly popular game that involved the daredevil archaeologist Lara Croft on a series of global missions. Several spinoff games have been published since, with a 10th-anniversary edition of the game released in 2006.
With the Tomb Raider chapters being pretty isolated on their own, I don’t know why they are relaunching the series. They could just put a new actress in the role and tell a new adventure. There is no subplot weaving through the franchise, its just another adventure.
So who should be the new Tomb Raider. They are tossing the “reboot” word around which means they are unlikely to approach Jolie for the role again (which I thought she did very well) and someone mentioned Rhona Mitra could do the gig considering she was once a Lara Croft model and coming hot off her role in Underworld Rise of the Lycans.
My vote would be Evangeline Lilly. She’s a fine actress, very attractive and physically fit.
Who would you pick?
