It's A Good Thing The New Tomb Raider Movie Is On Ice
Alicia Vikander recently confirmed that the Tomb Raider movie’s sequel was on ice and “in someone else’s hands,” and I think that's probably for the best. I'm a major Tomb Raider fan, but still, let’s leave it. I've been at TheGamer for around a year and a half, during which time Tomb Raider has not only had zero games, it has had almost zero news on any new games, and it's still one of my most covered games. I've held a Tomb Raider Week with exclusive interviews and written about the likes of pretty much every game in the Tomb Raider stable. I've even got the Tomb Raider board game. This isn't just complaining about it for the sake of it, or punching down on a series that's in a bit of a rough patch. I love Tomb Raider. I don't think it needs another movie.
I'm laying my Tomb Raider credentials out because I know, for better and for worse, that Tomb Raider fans are extremely passionate. I am one of you. I still don't want another movie. While I thought Vikander embodied the character well, the rest of the movie wasn't there. Jolie was more the Lara the general public knew from Lucozade adverts and magazine covers, while Vikander was the Lara we knew from the games. But I'm not sure what the point of any of the rest of it was.
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It took too long for her adventure to begin, giving us instead a misguided slice of life look at Lara Croft back home. Then it followed the 2013 Survivor Trilogy's opening entry to an extent, took some key set pieces (the famous plane from the trailer), but also completely changed major parts of it, such as the story and the characters. So you know, basically everything. No Sam, no monks, but here's Lara's dad! Again!
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