Lovecraft Country's Misha Green to direct new Tomb Raider movie with Alicia Vikander
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According to Deadline, Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green has been tapped to write and direct the next Tomb Raider movie—which will feature Alicia Vikander returning to reprise her role as Lara Croft from the 2018 Tomb Raider movie. This will be Green’s feature directorial debut, but that and Vikander’s involvement are the only things we know about it. That being said, the 2018 Tomb Raider movie reboot was based on the plot of the 2013 Tomb Raider video game reboot, so it stands to reason that the movie sequel will take some inspiration from the video game sequel, 2015's Rise Of The Tomb Raider. That one was about Lara getting stranded in Siberia and racing to find a mystical artifact before the bad guy mercenaries could find it and become immortal bad guys (Lara Croft is an archaeologist in the way that Indiana Jones is an archaeologist), so this movie could have some snowy action in place of the first movie’s jungle island action. Then again, Tomb Raider 2018 ended with a little nod to the pre-2013 games, so who knows.
The first Tomb Raider (or, rather, the 2018 Tomb Raider) didn’t land especially well with critics, but it made good money at the box office. We’ve known a sequel was in development for a while, but last we heard, Ben Wheatley of High-Rise and Free Fire was directing it. There’s no mention of Wheatley in Deadline’s report, so it’s unclear how much of his version of Tomb Raider 2 will be in Green’s version of Tomb Raider 2, but again, she is also writing in addition to directing. That means she could be completely rewriting it—not that we would know, since we won’t see whatever Wheatley version of the movie would’ve been.
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Between this and the Uncharted movie… Meh to both.
Oh, yeah? Well meh… to you.(Disclaimer: Apart from an unconsidered—but almost certainly predominantly non-platonic—interest in Ms. Vikander—and only the mildest of general disinclinations for her cinematic predecessor, Ms. Jolie—I am almost perfectly uninvested in the Tomb Raider and Uncharted franchises, having never played/seen a game/film of either. And what’s more, I have a better-than-vague impression that, while he may not quite qualify as one of the “Old Guard” of pre-Kinja—or, even less likely, pre-Disqus—AV Club commenters, I’ve often agreed with Mr. Manguy’s views in the past—that he is, at least colloquially, “good people.” But…DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)
Thank you for this, fellow oldtimer. I had a blast reading it.
That disclaimer was too long so I didn’t read it. I’m assuming you heaped praise upon me?
Oh, I’d say I was fairly effusive, all things considered, if only in the esteemed company I very nearly placed you — it was more a riff than a rant, really, and certainly not personal. I don’t hold grudges on this site, anyway, and your username has indeed been a favorite of mine since I first noticed it (though I recognize no reference — which is, of course, no strike against it). We’re fine.
Lol I was joking. Thanks for that!
People with severe ADHD can’t read all of that. You should shorten it for him to, “Fuck off jackass.”
I have no interest in an Uncharted movie that doesn’t star Bradley Cooper.
Coming this winter to an AMC theater near you…
Willem DaFoe
Gary Oldman
Tilda Swinton
and, of course
Octavia Spencer
in
Between The And The Uncharted Movie
I guess it’s nice that failing upward isn’t just a white dude thing anymore. Lovecraft Country was awful.
That would make sense if anyone gave a shit about any more Tomb Raider movies. And if Lovecraft Country was 100% awful. Sure, the show isn’t perfect but I very much liked most of it.
This is good, but I was looking forward to Ben Wheatley’s & Amy Jump’s Tomb Raider 2.
Tomb Raider 2 is slumming it for Wheatley and Jump. Misha Green too.
Yay for Misha, but does this pretty much confirm that HBO isn’t renewing Lovecraft Country? There’s been zero news about renewal or cancellation since season one ended in (wow) October 2020.
It just confirms she’s making a movie. People are making deals left and right even though most things are up in the air right now.
You making deals? I’m making deals.
Lovecraft Country was just a disappointing mess. So was the Tomb Raider reboot. So, a match anyway.
Lovecraft Country had an episode that was of the Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider mold, so this could work. Overall I think the supernatural elements were pretty good on her show, so hopefully there’s more of that in the TR sequel. (Which may have been a little too grounded the first time around?) I liked that movie more than most, but I’ve seen just about every videogame adaptation there is, so when I call it ‘good’, I mostly mean in relation to its peers.
Vikander’s neck: the most baffling thing this site went apeshit about since getting the idea into its collective head that a logical response to the election of Trump was canceling the Oscars