Tomb Raider movie reboot to be based on new game
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The long-in-development Tomb Raider movie set to reboot the franchise will follow the direction of today's just-released Tomb Raider game.
It's unclear how closely the film will adapt the game's story, but it will at least be based on the same "new take" of a younger, inexperienced Lara Croft, not yet the action heroine of previous games.
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"They are working from this new take that we've given them," Darrell Gallagher, boss of Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics told Variety. "It's a good partnership. We're seeing the challenges through the same lens.
"It was important for both of us to have a cohesive version of the franchise. We didn't want to see a film version that was a continuation of the old Tomb Raider films."
Like the game, the film will focus on the origins of Lara Croft and act as a reboot, fresh from the previous Angelina Jolie movies.
There's no mention of who might play the title role, but British actress Camilla Luddington, who voiced and provided mo-cap for Croft in the game, is surely a candidate.
Production studio GK Films acquired the big screen rights to Tomb Raider back in 2011. The project has long been classed as a "reboot" and is being penned by Iron Man's script-writing duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby.
"[It] is really the story before she became Lara Croft, so it is a character piece," producer Graham King concluded. "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."