Roar Uthaug Lands The TOMB RAIDER Reboot
Left: Anders Flatland; Right: Square Enix And so it is – With the Tomb Raider reboot in development as of the last five years, the film finally found a director in The Wave helmer, Norwegian filmmaker Roar Uthaug according to THR. It’s a step forward for MGM and Warner Bros. following Graham King’s GK Films’s acquiring the property from Square Enix in 2011, with this now marking Uthaug‘s English-language debut. The first two live-action features from Paramount Pictures, based on the now 19-year old game franchise released earlier by Eidos Interactive, starred Angelina Jolie and did fairly well at the box office, but not enough to keep going. Snow White & The Huntsman scribe Evan Daugherty was previously attached to provide the screenplay following drafts from writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children Of Men, Iron Man) among others. Those duties might now go to Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who wrote Hibernation, depending on […]