![]() Fans don”t need a busty, beautiful Lara Croft but they do need a well-developed, relatable character that can carry the weight of the franchise. If executives hope to revitalize “Tomb Raider,” they”d do well to take a page from Crystal Dynamics and start over from scratch. Since a writer and/or writing team hasn”t officially been nailed down, having a “solid script” seems unlikely. “Nope no one has talked to me but they know where to find me! If they have a director it probably means they have a solid script that was used to attract that director.” Pratchett confirmed to us that she has not been approached. HitFix Harpy reached out to Rhianna Pratchett to see if perhaps EK Films had reached out to her and she”d turned them down due to her work schedule on “ Warrior Daughter” and “ Wee Free Men”. Article after article praised Pratchett”s breathing new life and humanity into Lara Croft. ![]() If EK Films is still trying to perfect their version of Lara Croft, why not hire the one woman who”s been living inside the character”s head for three years? Rhianna Pratchett took a icon that had been beaten down into caricature and pulled out a nuanced, flawed, and vulnerable narrative about a young woman surviving her ordeal through sheer willpower and determination to come out the other side forged into a badass. Plot details for the film reboot remain shrouded in mystery but at least four writers have already taken a crack at the script – Evan Daugherty, Marti Noxon and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. Robertson-Dworet”s writing credits include a prestigious spot on The Blacklist for “Hibernation,” and a co-writing credit on the upcoming “Transformers 5.” This is a good start but it”s not unusual for giant franchises to go through dozens of writers between inception and opening night. Reports say Geneva Robertson-Dworet is in negotiations to pen the script. I”m far more interested in who EK Films plan to hire to write the script. So for right now, let”s chalk that misstep up to Hollywood gonna Hollywood. We could debate all day the merits of hiring YET ANOTHER white man with minimal experience to helm a high-visibility action franchise – one starring a woman no less – but that”s its own article entirely. Roar Uthaug (“The Wave”) is officially on board to bring Lara back to the big screen in his English-language debut. After five years in development, Hollywood Reporter writes EK Films has finally tapped a director. The game sold an astonishing 8.5 million copies, making it the best-selling game in the franchise”s history, and spawned the recently released sequel “Rise of the Tomb Raider.”Īll this is to say it”s no wonder interest has been renewed in the long-percolating “Tomb Raider” movie reboot. Redesigning the franchise from the ground-up, the game followed a young Lara Croft on her journey from an average twenty-something trying to become her own person in the long shadow set by her father to a hardened survivor capable of taking on paramilitary cultists. That is, until the record-breaking success of the rebooted “Tomb Raider” released by Crystal Dynamics in 2013. By the time Crystal Dynamics took over development of the series with “Tomb Raider: Legend,” Lara”s glory days were behind her. Shortly after “Cradle of Life” bombed, Core Design – the company that created “Tomb Raider” – closed their doors. Yet her popularity reached its zenith in 2001 when Angelina Jolie donned Lara”s iconic booty shorts for “Lara Croft Tomb Raider” and the 2003 sequel “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.” Neither film was well received. As gaming graphics advanced, so too did Lara”s sexualization and while she began life as a action-adventure female scientist, debate raged over whether the Tomb Raider could be considered a positive feminist role model. Not all of that legacy has been positive. Her legacy has spanned nearly a dozen games and two films. Since the inception of the series in 1996, Lara Croft has become a cultural icon. But when it comes to the “Tomb Raider” series, taking another pass at Lara Croft”s story isn”t inherently a bad idea. ![]() Many of these reboots and requels and alternate timelines may seem superfluous to fans. If a franchise was popular a decade (or more) ago, you can bet a Hollywood executive is working to resurrect it.
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