![]() ![]() Financially, I'd say it paid off, but critically, on the other hand, definitely not so much, and really, while I think that the film is reasonably entertaining, I can see where some people are coming from.Īs an early 2000s action-adventure popcorn piece, this film is not much of anything new, following the same style and lame score, and lazily manufacturing a very typical plot formula that, no matter how overdone, is still a little hard to figure out. Come to think of it, Jolie didn't really start getting dramatic until well after this film, so maybe her being disowned by the respectable Voight name was daddy's idea, but now that Voight can't afford to only do the heavy stuff, he and Jolie are going to have to take the commercial train together. whose fanbase is largely focused on hard-hitting dramas like "Midnight Cowboy", or "Deliverance", or "Coming Home", or a bunch of other stuff that only Jon Voight has been in. Jolie finally had to face up to being Jon Voight's daughter, so, naturally, this is big-time fan service to fans of the Voight family. TOMB RAIDER FILM MOVIEShoot, on top of that, it took Indy until his third movie to hang out with an old James Bond, and on her first movie, Croft hangs out with Daniel Craig at one point, well before he was James Bond, which isn't to say that this film didn't commit some form of fan service at the time of its release. even if she is a hot British chick with a great deal of wealth, and advanced, video game-grade combat skills. that is filled with ancient artifacts of great power which is pursued by the Illuminati.Yeah, well, other than that, Lara Croft is not as cool as Indiana Jones. In a financial report following the purchase, Embracer Group highlighted the franchise, along with other gaming mainstays like Deus Ex and Legacy of Kain, as a source of "great potential" for the company.Why, I just can't believe that Angelina Jolie could possibly condone grave robbing! Seriously though, Indiana Jones raided the lost ark, and all this chick is raiding is some old tomb. ![]() Things got a little more complicated earlier this year when Tomb Raider rights-holder Square Enix sold the IP, along with several other game franchises and studios, to Embracer Group in a $300 million deal. Sadly, it seems MGM wasn't ready to move forward on Green's draft, leaving Tomb Raider in limbo until the rights expired. ![]() Misha Green, fresh off an acclaimed stint as showrunner on HBO's Lovecraft Country, picked up the sequel, and even teased that a draft of the script was completed. Now, other studios are exploring what it might take to acquire the franchise for themselves, which means Vikander is almost certainly out, and the future of Tomb Raider on the big screen is wide open.ĭevelopment on Tomb Raider 2 seemed to be on track for quite a while, first with In The Earth and Kill List writer/director Ben Wheatley attached, but Wheatly eventually left the project and set to work on The Meg 2 instead. The Wrap reports that MGM has lost the feature film rights to the Tomb Raider franchise, which has sparked a "bidding war" that will likely lead to yet another film reboot in the future.Īccording to The Wrap's sources, the studio was facing down a May deadline to greenlight a new Tomb Raider film after years of slow development on a sequel to Vikander's 2018 outing, and the deadline came and went without any movement. After four years of waiting for a sequel to 2018's Tomb Raider, fans of that Alicia Vikander-led film got some bad news this week. ![]()
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