Back in March The Hollywood Reporter posted that Tomb Raider will be rebooted by producer Graham King's GK Films and this has a penciled in release date of sometime in 2013.
GK Films brought the feature film rights to Tomb Raider and Graham King is set to produce this along with Tim Headington...which as you can imagine begged the question will Angelina Jolie come back to the fold to pick up Laura Croft where she left off but sadly and more logically as this will be a reboot this is rumoured to be an original story.
Well I say this is more logical but I just thought that after the last Tomb Raider film where Angelina Jolie played Lara Croft and saved the world from having Pandora's box being opened which would open the world up to god knows what...that it might be quite a cool idea to do a film where audiences get to see what adventures she encountered after this...but then again this might be a bit boring and a little repetitive as the first film about Laura Croft was in this same vein.
So it might be interesting to give this reboot some of the 'X Men:First Class' treatment and start at the beginning and see what made the Lara Croft...well Lara Croft and if the new rebooted film is anything what as GK Films want to achieve with this reboot which is:
" to create daring new adventures for the young dynamic Lara Croft"
So this sounds like there will be a new young look to Lara Croft..but as yet there is no writer or starlet to play this new look Croft.
Another Reboot that they want to breath new life into is 'The Mummy'...I am a fan of this series of films and loved the first one and the second 'The Mummy Returns', but 'The Mummy:The Tomb Of Dragon Emperor', although I can watch this film I think it's safe for me to say that it lost a bit of its mojo here and lost all the things that made it a really watchable and enjoyable set of films, and I think it lost a bit of the plot here with just forgetting what the whole film is about, with the characters of the O'Connels just haphazedly falling into fighting mummies and everything they found was kind of found by accident as in the first film Eve wanted an adventure to find something that would show the Benbridge Scholars that she was a good enough archiologist and then she just found Brendan Frasier's character in prison and found via the same way the book of the dead but accidently read from it to accidently reawaken Imotep and then this goes on to the next film...that probably has more to say though for Stephan Sommers and Rachel Wiesz leaving to make this film on this last one.
So...the producers including Sean Daniels have decided that the co-writer of 'Promethius' Josh Spaihts is going to be the man to do the job. But it will be really interesting to see what he'll do with this...but he has said that he:
"...see it as the sort of opportunity I had with 'Promethius': to back to a franchise's roots is dark, scary source material and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven't seen before"
This sounds like he's going to be putting on his thinking cap and getting to the heart of the matter and thinking what was it that made the franchise in the first place and then he'll take in some new directions that you would have never thought the franchise could go but on a big scale like 'Promethius'...so this sounds like it could give this franchise a bit of a face lift and make it very new but original.
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