Given the state of the streaming wars and companies betting big on popular IPs, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if a streaming platform takes on Lara Croft’s next big-screen adventure.
TOMB RAIDER CAST MOVIE
Recent news details a hefty bidding war among movie studios to get the rights to the next Tomb Raider movie. However, the film rights returned to producer Graham King’s GK Films, who acquired them in 2011 from Square Enix. That deal was officially completed on 26 August. In the meantime, on 2 May, it was announced that Embracer Group had acquired the Tomb Raider IP from Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. Instead, the production company did nothing, which was likely a direction taken by Amazon. As CNBC reports, the deal to buy MGM closed in March 2022, but properties were still up in the air come July.Īccording to The Wrap, MGM had until May 2022 to just greenlight a Tomb Raider sequel – four years after the reboot was released. She simply said that the film is “in somebody else’s hands now.” That came in the middle of July, clearly indicating that the Amazon buyout was more than preoccupying the then rights owners as the sequel was effectively killed off months before. When news broke of Amazon buying out MGM – the company behind Tomb Raider (2018) – Vikander was asked to comment on the status of the sequel. Tomb Raider Obsidian cancelled by MGM’s inaction Luckily, there’s a lot of enthusiasm behind bringing Lara Croft to the big screen once again. There are a lot of moving parts, but essentially, the studio missed the boat, got gobbled up by a mega-corporation, and now we’re waiting to see where the rights will go. Now, however, we know that Tomb Raider 2 – or rather Tomb Raider: Obsidian, per PSU – isn’t to become a movie.
TOMB RAIDER CAST SERIES
After Ben Wheatley dropped out from the project, Misha Green came onboard, fresh off of the excellent series Lovecraft Country, looking to blend similar doses of fitting fantasy and sci-fi horror elements into the next film. While the reviews were mostly middling, it was never a film made to dazzle the critics, and enough people enjoyed it to encourage a sequel. Surrounding the Swedish Oscar-winner, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, and Daniel Wu also turned in good showings, so there were many things to enjoy about the action-adventure movie.Īs listed by The Numbers, it broke $273,477,501 at the worldwide box office, narrowly topping the first of Angelina Jolie’s two-film stint from 2001, which reeled in $273,330,185. The story beats and the few excessive, gravity-defying stunts didn’t quite hit the mark, but Alicia Vikander was perfectly cast for this modern iteration. If nothing else, the 2018 reboot flick Tomb Raider certainly delivered on its aim of bringing Lara Croft from the most recent Survivor Trilogy to the big screen.
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