![]() Dominic West has always shined in his roles and this movie is no different. Seriously, Alicia Vikander absolutely rocks in this role and commands your attention when she’s on screen. So, we have the motivation, a solid origin story, and a strong female lead, in an action movie, who has no problem displaying her butt-kicking skills. Or was he just waiting for her to pick up the clues that he left behind for her (Yea, chew on that one for a while)? Even if it seemed certain he was.īut, a series of events leads her to discover another life she never knew her father had. Training at a local gym, working as a bicycle carrier and outsmarting her male coworkers, all the while believing that her father (played by Dominic West), who had left on business seven years before and presumed dead, was still alive. When we meet Lara she’s still trying to find her way. ![]() But, what they’ve done a fantastic job of is giving her a solid origin story. The writers do an excellent job of maintaining that central part of Lara. Like another popular character, Indiana Jones (more on that later). The most important thing I took away from her character while doing research, was she’s an archaeologist-adventurer. But, I was aware of its popularity and how that popularity grew with each installment following the first one. It wasn’t ignorance either, I had just never played it. All I knew was that it was led by a female character. I didn’t have much knowledge of the video game, Tomb Raider, when it first debuted. The movie would star actress on the rise, Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) and co-star Dominic West and Walton Goggins. A movie, originally, made back in 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie, based off the video game made famous for PlayStation back in 1996(Got all that? Seriously. This went through my mind when I heard they were rebooting Tomb Raider. But, whenever anyone (and by anyone, I mean me) hears the word “reboot” in front of any greenlit film or TV show we (me again) are quick to assume that Hollywood has become lazy. Looks like Hollywood continues to run out of ideas.” – Me, I know I’ve said this countless time. Starring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Alexandre Willaume You will see WB exploring storytelling in films such as the Fantastic Beasts series, the LEGO series, and animated fare like Scoob! But diving into Tomb Raider makes sense, and Alicia Vikander has us fired up for where this saga can go.Written by: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons But investing in other film franchises that can carry different audiences also has strong appeal. They can continue to lean heavily into the DC universe, as that tends to pay off dividends at the box office, and in merchandise sales. to be divested when it comes to franchises. Not a slam dunk, but also worthy of a follow-up film, especially for a familiar IP that has a built in audience from the video game. But as the studio likely expected, Alicia Vikander’s Tomb Raider did much better overseas, banking $216 million to push the overall cume to $274 million. It’s true that the movie didn’t catch fire at the domestic box office, earning $58.2 million. You might look at the box office for Tomb Raider 2 and wonder why Warner Bros. Slowly but surely, though, filming on several major films has resumed – Jurassic World: Dominion, The Batman, and Spider-Man 3 being a handful that come to mind – so it’s possible that the Tomb Raider sequel can get back into a rhythm and carve out a schedule that might get it into theaters in 2022 (or beyond). That’s incredibly encouraging, as Alicia Vikander makes it sound as if she was all but prepared to head back into production on Tomb Raider 2 when the industry had to press pause because of the pandemic. We still are in discussions about it, so I hope we can probably get to it next year. The plan was for us to start making one this year, of course due to the situation, that's now very different. ![]() Vikander spoke with Good Morning America to promote her latest film, The Glorias, and mentioned the status of the Tomb Raider sequel, saying: Released in 2018, the adventure-thriller followed Croft on one of her first journeys, tracking her father (Dominic West) through the Devil’s Sea. To that pile, I’d also add Alicia Vikander’s Tomb Raider, an origin story and a reimagining of the classic video game that cast the actress as treasure seeker Lara Croft. ![]()
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