Key in hand, Vikander paces up the pathway, pausing and smiling as she looks up at the Croft family crypt. On the roadīack on set, TF is admiring the immaculately maintained 14,500 acre grounds of Wilton House when the first AD calls “action!”
Lara’s history, shrouded in mystery, comes back into focus when her father is pronounced dead and his company – Croft Holdings – entrusted to Lara. “She’s trying to figure out her path in life, who she is, and what her history is.” “What I like is that there will be a lot of young people, a lot of girls, who feel like they can relate to her,” Vikander says. Now working for a bicycle delivery service and living in a ‘communal space’, Lara is hiding her responsibilities behind a directionless, cosmopolitan life.įilmed in and around the streets of east London, it’s a way of life Vikander knows well having houseshared while working service jobs around the city in her early twenties. Instead of a privileged posho with a butler, she has been living on her own since her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), disappeared without trace when she was just 14. Filming as much of the gruelling action in-camera as possible, Uthaug had one goal, “To make the audience care about Lara Croft, and invest in her as a real character.” speak to anyone involved in the making of Tomb Raider and you could play a drinking game with these three words alone. I wouldn’t say cartoon character, but she’s more of the real world.” “They did a tremendous job in updating Lara Croft, to make her feel modern. “We’ve based it on the rebooted games, where we meet Lara Croft before she’s the tomb raider,” Uthaug explains.
#SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB UNBOXING TV#
“She’s trying to figure out her path in life, who she is”ĭescribing the games as “groundbreaking”, Uthaug recalls huddling round a TV with flatmates in Norway to play, and expresses admiration for the work of developer Crystal Dynamics in reinventing Lara. That’s exactly what he’s trying to do with this job.” “I felt really close to those characters, and taken on that journey. “I was really impressed by how he was able to make a genre film extremely emotional,” she says, joining TF during the day’s lunch break. Similarly bowled over was fellow Scandi Vikander.
#SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB UNBOXING MOVIE#
King and his fellow producers were swept away by Uthaug’s wet and wild disaster movie The Wave, specifically his rare talent to manage large-scale action sequences while keeping a laser focus on meaningful character beats. Any feature adaptation would require a similarly fresh approach.Įnter Norwegian director Roar Uthaug. Wildly successful, they made Lara relevant in a way she hadn’t been for years. Tomb Raider (opens in new tab) (2013) and its 2015 sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider (opens in new tab) envisioned a drastically different Lara: vulnerable yet resilient, and really handy with a bow. Aiming to release a movie in 2013 alongside a new game, both of which would serve as major reboots for the series, the film was put on the back burner when a suitable combination of star and director couldn’t be found, leaving the game to fly solo.
The origin of this particular story begins with prestige producer Graham King ( World War Z (opens in new tab), The Departed (opens in new tab)), who optioned the rights to Tomb Raider (opens in new tab) in 2011. We go back to the beginning, and tell the origin story.”
“I knew we wouldn’t be able to redo that, and that’s not what we’re trying to do either. “ made that an iconic role,” the Swedish actress acknowledges. Vikander’s Croft, however, is decidedly different. In both movies, though, Jolie proved perfect casting for the thrill-seeking archaeologist. Its daft post-Matrix action romps could generously be described as ‘a bit of fun’, which is more than can be said for Jan De Bont’s 2003 sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (opens in new tab). A pop-culture sensation, she made the leap to live-action films in Simon West’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (opens in new tab) in 2001, starring Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig. That girl went on to star in more than a dozen games, selling 58 million-plus copies, and feature on the covers of countless magazines (including Loaded in the heyday of lads’ mags).
0 kommentar(er)
