TerrorFirmer wrote: » I agree. I thought Tomb Raider was offensively bad and not just because it's horribly scripted and cheesy as hell....it also is completely devoid of any genuine sense of fun and adventure and honestly just pretty boring. Someone above said it is one of the better video game adaptions. I though the complete opposite to be honest, that it's up there with the worst of them. It does get better in the last third of the movie but the first third is painful, second act barely watchable. At least some of the classic video-game stinkers have a sense of fun about them that you can sort of scrape some guilty pleasure enjoyment from. This is just a totally sub-par, bad movie. I was watching with friends so we got through it but there's no way I would have gotten past the half way mark on my own.
pixelburp wrote: » It gets further odd though, because Ben Wheatley is tipped to direct
JP Liz V1 wrote: » Misha Green To Write/Direct Next ‘Tomb Raider’ With Alicia Vikander Reprising As Lara Croft Misha Replaces Ben Wheatley
So this has been dropped completely now and apparently its heading for another complete reboot
It seems MGM lost the rights to it because they didn't start filming within the window they needed to start filming to keep the rights.
Maybe Amazon when they bought MGM this got lost in the shuffle.
The movies themselves were never box office smashes in anyway shape or form.
It might be better suited to a series than movies if they try and film it again.
At this stage they might be best trying their hand a TV series than another Indiana-Jones-but-not film. The Vikander film was the definition of mediocre.
A few weeks ago Vikander said in an interview that Amazon buying MGM had left them up in the air and she didn't know what was happening with it. So the news it's been dropped completely isn't surprising.
These f**king mergers killing off so many things these days.
Tv series would work much better. Something like Blood and Treasure where you have Lara searching around the world for one treasure every season
Oh it'll be back. Mergers can mean stuff gets shuttered but I'd be surprised if this doesn't get a TV attempt. Especially if the Amazon Fallout TV show works out well. Suppose it depends on how valuable the Tomb Raider IP is seen to be.
Sounds like you quite enjoyed the Vikandar film?
I think it was alright but obviously have been better. I'm not sure I had strong feelings one way or the other, I was more interested in what Misha Green was going to do with it, having enjoyed a lot of Lovecraft Country.
Yeah, her writing would've given us a completely different thing to the last movie.
Ah, fair enough re. Green. Bit cautious myself these days of people with imagination getting hold of IPs. Haven't seen Lovecraft Country but had heard it didn't lack identity. Feels we're a long, long way past the days Tim Burton got a blank cheque to make Batman and its sequel. Think the old exception of late night be Noah Hawley allowed to make an Alien TV show, and even that's still a WIP.
I don't know if a TV series would be the best move either. I don't know if Lara is a strong enough character or has a good enough story. Plus part of the appeal would be the locations and stunts, and the budget of a TV show would likely make all of that horrible and cheap.
I'd say a Netflix or Disney+ movie would be the best course of action. Reduce the budget and pressure of a big theatrical release, but not stretch it out so thin that it needs to support a series.
When I think Tomb Raider TV show my mind goes straight to one of those 90s or early 2000s TV shows like Relic Hunter. A different location/adventure every week, but it's just the same Styrofoam rocks shot from a slightly different angle.
Much more suited to a TV series. Disney have a "National Treasure" TV series coming out but, if it's anything like the (goofy guilty pleasure) Cage movies, they'll be family friendly romps. That leaves space for a slightly more adult series. I'm not saying go down Game of Thrones route or even a particularly violent angle but simply something a bit more serious and in depth.
And not even the perma-outraged anti-woke brigade could complain (Although I'm sure they'd find SOMETHING to complain about).
But yeah, it is much more suited to a TV series. And not a "tomb-of-the-week" type thing but maybe "Tomb-of-the-season" type thing. TBH, as said above, most game adaptations would be more suited to TV rather than movies. Certainly streaming services where they can put in the money and have 6 or 8 episode runs per season. Uncharted, Mass Effect (Much too big for a movie) etc. I mean if studios can take a slim novel like The Hobbit and turn it into about 24 hundred hours (it seems) of movies including a 2 hour sing-a-long-washing-dishes scene then how do they think they can compress a game with hours of back-story into one movie? Especially single-player games created in the last 20 years or so. My God, I think one of the Metal Gear games had one cutscene alone that was over 1 hour long
We can't be that far from the point po culture starts rebooting 2000s properties anyway, so Relic Hunter Tomb Raider may not be that far away!
