While marketing his new collaboration with Martin Scorcese’s HUGO, producer Graham King has given a few snippets of what we can expect on his upcoming TOMB RAIDER reboot project. The previous entries featured Angelina Jolie as the globe-hopping, ass-kicking archaeologist Lara Croft in two tepid and disappointing big-budget blockbusters, but King has stated:-
Listen, the box office, they weren’t disasters but I find it interesting that the story that we’re telling is really the story before she became Lara Croft, so it is a character piece. It does have a lot of really great characters, but it’s a lot of action and a lot of fun, and for me, it’s something very different. I’ve not really done a movie like that before, but I really gravitated to rebooting this franchise and we’re going to give it a shot.
No director or cast has been confirmed for this new attempt at transferring the video-game heroine’s adventures to the big-screen, but IRON MAN scribes Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have penned the screenplay.
Source: Edward Douglas, Comingsoon
