‘I Missed It’: Gerard Butler Goes Close to Drama with Angelina Jolie on Set of Adventure Film

Officially born in November 1996 with her first (MES) adventure titled Tomb Raider, Lara Croft quickly established herself as an authentic cultural phenomenon; To some, this character will reveal an undeniable coolness in the small world of video games, changing this perception, moving from the geek world to the general public.

The fact is that Hollywood, which is still looking for a new Martingale, won a video game icon in 2001, led by Simon West, Angelina Jolie portrays a pixelated heroine. Two years later, he took on the adventurer outfit Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. Whatever one might think of the two feature films, the character the actor camped out was ultimately true to the adventurer, beautiful, rich, intelligent, and ultra-athletic image that the game gave us.

“miss you”

In the second opus, directed by Jan de Bont, Gerard Butler answered the actress. The actor who portrays Terry Sheridan in the film “The Mercenary” was not yet completely in orbit, which would happen only three years later with Zack Snyder’s 300.

In a recent interview with the magazine people Looking back on his career, the actor reveals that he almost seriously injured Angelina Jolie on set and pulled a white pistol while she was hanging from a rope for a scene.

“I almost wiped out in front of Angelina Jolie. I was coming down, I was suspended upright, I should have taken a picture, but I had no control over the direction the thing took, so I used it and missed. Recalls form that even a white loaded gun can be fatal if the usual precautions are not observed…

The fact is that despite the acrobatics of the antagonistic duo of this second Opus Tomb Raider, the results received at the box office were not completely glowing. At $160 million in revenue, it will be $100 million less than the first. It’s enough to set up a movie license that won’t take place until 2016, when a reboot modeled after the revival of the license on the video game side is underway.