Tomb Raider 2 Gets Disappointing Update From Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander provides a disappointing update regarding the long-awaited Tomb Raider 2. After Angelina Jolie first brought the iconic Lara Croft to life back in 2001, the 2018 reboot from director Roar Uthaug saw Vikander take on the role. Telling the story of Croft's attempts to rescue her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), from an exotic island, Tomb Raider acts as something of an origin story for the character, with the ending clearly setting up a sequel. The film earned mixed reviews from both audiences and critics and performed adequately at the box office, earning $274 million worldwide.
Not long after the success of the first film, it was announced that Tomb Raider 2 would be moving forward. Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green was tapped to direct and write the sequel, which was originally given a release date of March 2021. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Tomb Raider 2 experienced significant delays. However, Green shared an update on social media in May of 2021, revealing that her working title featured on the front page of the script is Tomb Raider: Obsidian. Concrete news of the Tomb Raider sequel has been hard to come by in recent months, but both Vikander and Green are seemingly still on board.
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In a new interview with EW, Vikander provides another update on the long-awaited Tomb Raider2, revealing that Amazon's buyout of MGM has complicated matters. Though positive progress seemed to come last year, that has changed. Check out Vikander's disappointing update below:
«With the MGM and Amazon buyout, I have no clue. Now it's kind of politics. I think Misha and I have been ready, so it's kind of in somebody
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