The rights to Tomb Raider in Hollywood are currently held between four companies: GK Films, Warner Bros, MGM, and Square Enix, the latter of which owns the game rights. Ever since the dismal results for the previous movie to bear Lara Croft’s name, Cradle of Life, there has been talk of restarting with a new cast and crew — but until now they haven’t been able to decide which. Names such as Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Catherine Hardwicke (Twlight), and Mimi Leder (Deep Impact) have been batted around these last few years.
Now the four companies involved have finally settled (at least for now) on a director for the new Tomb Raider movie: he’s a German man with one of the strangest names ever, Roar Uthaug. Roar has actually never directed an American film before; his most recent project has been the Norwegian disaster movie The Wave. They must see something in him.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, this new film will “detail Lara Croft’s first adventure.” Does that mean it’ll be an adaption of the 2013 Tomb Raider game? Apparently it was to be exactly this at one point, but the script might now be heading in a different direction.
Casting for the new Lara has yet to begin, nor has the flick’s release window been settled.
