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TOMB RAIDER Gets An Action-Packed Second Trailer

The initial teaser for Roar Uthaug’s treatment of Tomb Raider presented an ample peek into the new approach from Warner Bros. and GK Films. March 16 is the date for the new adaptation which sees Alicia Vikander taking her versatile craft and applying it accordingly as we now get to sample in a second, spectacular trailer that puts a little more effort in pumping up our interest, and I think it works! Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as […]

FIVE-A-DAY ROUND-UP XI: Creed 2, Ready Player One, The Last One, Tomb Raider, X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Lee B. Golden III

Lest we stray too far from Stallone, we can’t continue from yesterday without mentioning Creed 2. Ryan Coogler shepherded the 2015 spin-off near perfectly with Michael B. Jordan starring, and host to a bevy of talent as well as a spry and impressive one-take boxing match midway in the film. Stallone and attached filmmaker Stephen Caple Jr. will commence production in Spring next year with Jordan joined once more by Tessa Thompson along with the long-rumored, expected return of Rocky IV antagonist Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago, and bearing rumors in mind, an actor slated to play Drago’s son, whoever that is. Shooting a commercial with Dolph today… Getting ready for working with the big man in CREED 2 A post shared by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Dec 14, 2017 at 4:59pm PST With Ernest Cline’s 2011 publication of Ready Player One.. I never even read the book. All I […]

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TOMB RAIDER: Alicia Vikander Takes The Reigns In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

The last 24 hours or so have been a mild mix of exciting and irksome with some fans exhibiting worry over The Wave helmer Roar Uthaug’s latest game adaptation, Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie’s own performances falls somewhat memorable for most fans and we’ve yet to see what actress Alicia Vikander’s own portrayal will bring to the masses, save for a few stills and a trailer tease that went viral on Monday. Personally, I think the reactions emerging so soon could do for some furthet waiting. In the meantime, the movie officially opens on March 16, 2018 and with plenty of time between now and then, IGN is hosting a live stream around 1:00am EST with the actress in which they will also broadcast the first official teaser trailer to kick it all off. Also starring are Into The Badlands series star Daniel Wu along with actors Dominic West and Walton […]

Alicia Vikander's TOMB RAIDER Gets Its Day Beginning In Spring 2018

Lee B. Golden III

I don’t think anyone saw the casting of Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander for the lead role of director Roar Uthaug’s upcoming film, Tomb Raider. Nevertheless, it happened and there’s no question she’s earned it having made her way with the 2015 sci-fi drama, Ex-Machina with subsequent roles in Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the upcoming Jason Bourne from Paul Greengrass. Further casting and plot details remain pending, though the word coming out as of Thursday is that the film now has a release date set for March 16, 2018. The film, based on the longstanding Edios/Square Enix video game property, hails from Warner Bros., MGM, and GK Films who are producing the project featuring a younger version of main character, daredevil explorer Lara Croft. Stay tuned for more info!

Daisy Ridley Is Up For The Role Of Lara Croft In TOMB RAIDER

Lee B. Golden III

Life is imaginably awesome for actress Daisy Ridley. Her prospects are growing immensely with the currently blooming new role in the Star Wars franchise for Disney and Lucasfilm and so it’s likely that her options will align beyond from here. This now leads us to the work that MGM, Warner Bros. and GK Films are putting in toward rebooting the Eidos Interactive hit game franchise, Tomb Raider. It’s been well-over five-year effort so far but the production finally nabbed a director late last year with The Wave helmer Roar Uthaug, and now the word is that Ridley herself is up against other candidates for the role of its leading lady character, Lara Croft. Square Enix recently rebooted the franchise for game platforms with Tomb Raider a few years ago, and subsequently with Rise Of The Tomb Raider, all which, in the game’s two-decade history, focus on Croft and her stunning […]

Roar Uthaug Lands The TOMB RAIDER Reboot

Lee B. Golden III

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 […]

Evan Daugherty To Pen TOMB RAIDER Reboot For Warner Bros.

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been close to fourteen years since Paramount Pictures introduced the filmgoing world to a live-action iteration of Lara Croft a la actress Angelina Jolie based on Square Enix’s popular Tomb Raider game franchise. The film did well for itself while its sequel didn’t perform equally at the box-office and that’s so far been the history of the franchise until 2011 when GK Films’s own, producer Graham King acquired the rights with MGM announcing their partneship for a theatrical reboot. This week, the film is reportedly on the fast track according to Deadline so we could be hearing some pretty cool casting news soon enough. In the meantime, Snow White And The Huntsman, Divergent and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scribe Evan Daugherty has been tapped to pen the script. Acclaimed writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) completed their own version of a Tomb Raider film several years […]