wraggster
November 21st, 2011, 22:54
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If Hollywood's already keen on dragging you through another origin story with Spider-Man (who?), it can't surprise anyone by proposing a narrative backtrack for the lesser known Lara Croft. The new Tomb Raider film, vaguely positioned for 2013 (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/08/tomb-raider-film-franchise-rebooted-first-movie-coming-2013/), will return to the posh explorer's formative years, though it might not fall in lockstep with next year's game (http://joystiq.com/game/tomb-raider-2012), which also strips away the Croft cruft to focus on a harsh tale of survival.
Producer Graham King tells ComingSoon.net (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84426) that the new movie is "something very different" from the ... commercially acceptable Angelina Jolie outings. "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," he says, "so it is a character piece."
And when she does become Lara Croft, we hope it's accompanied by a scene in which she repeatedly, explicitly imparts the correct pronunciation to the audience. Look, it's easy. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Laura Craft: Haberdasher.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/21/new-tomb-raider-film-to-focus-on-lara-crofts-beginnings/
If Hollywood's already keen on dragging you through another origin story with Spider-Man (who?), it can't surprise anyone by proposing a narrative backtrack for the lesser known Lara Croft. The new Tomb Raider film, vaguely positioned for 2013 (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/08/tomb-raider-film-franchise-rebooted-first-movie-coming-2013/), will return to the posh explorer's formative years, though it might not fall in lockstep with next year's game (http://joystiq.com/game/tomb-raider-2012), which also strips away the Croft cruft to focus on a harsh tale of survival.
Producer Graham King tells ComingSoon.net (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84426) that the new movie is "something very different" from the ... commercially acceptable Angelina Jolie outings. "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," he says, "so it is a character piece."
And when she does become Lara Croft, we hope it's accompanied by a scene in which she repeatedly, explicitly imparts the correct pronunciation to the audience. Look, it's easy. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Laura Craft: Haberdasher.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/21/new-tomb-raider-film-to-focus-on-lara-crofts-beginnings/