Cult since 1996: Will this adventure saga that took the world by storm get the rights to a new movie?

Cult since 1996: Will this adventure saga that took the world by storm get the rights to a new movie?

After playing Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Cradle of Life in 2001 and 2003, video game heroine Lara Croft returned to the big screen in 2018 in the form of Swedish actress Alicia Vikander.

The reboot, directed by Roar Utah, was a huge success at the worldwide box office ($274 million on a budget estimated at nearly $100 million). Despite all that, MGM quickly announced a sequel to be directed by filmmaker Misha Green, creator of Lovecraft Country.

Even the job title is announced: Tomb Raider: Obsidian. The latter is a reference to the video game “Shadow of the Tomb Raider, in which the obsidian blade turns out to be an important plot point. But the COVID pandemic and Amazon’s takeover of the legendary studio put a damper on the project.

Alicia Vikander in “Tomb Raider”

in August 2021, Alicia Vikander Trust the magazine EW He was ready to return to the role, but the decision was not up to him. “Since MGM was bought by Amazon, I have no idea. Now that’s a bit of politics. I think Misha and I are ready, so it’s a little in someone else’s hands, to be honest. But I would love to find Lara.”

MGM loses rights

But in May 2022, the ax falls: MGM loses exclusive rights to the Tomb Raider license. The company didn’t want to keep them with a new offer. Therefore, Alicia Vikander should not play Lara Croft anymore.

Swedish video game giant Embracer Group is buying the rights to the video game license for $300 million. The latter is selling them at the beginning of 2023… on Amazon, according to the site, for 600 million dollars. The camaraderie of fans.

Angelina Jolie

A new related Tomb Raider universe?

The American giant is planning a lot of content related to the world of Tomb Raider. A video game (developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Amazon Game), a TV series written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge that airs on Prime Video, but also a film.

The live-action feature will be a collaboration with the company DJ2 Entertainment – already working on the film adaptations of Sonic and the animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, which is currently in development for Netflix.

Last November The Hollywood Reporter It also specified that the film will be a reboot and will be part of a larger shared universe, it will be directly related to the Phoebe Waller-Bridge series. It is not yet known which actor will play the role of Lara Croft and when the TV series and the movie will air.

Source: Allocine

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