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Angelina Jolie Is Lara Croft
MwBay writes, "The Oscar winning actress has been cast as Lara Croft, bringing to an end months of speculation about who would fill Lara's shoes (and other garments) when the game makes the transition to the big screen.
Read about it
here." This is finally official from Eidos, after reading countless rumors in the submission bin. Good luck, Angelina! Oh, and if you Eidos guys are looking for extras, I'm interested. Update: 04/07 12:47 by CT : I remember when Angelina and I shared an issue of Rolling Stone... *grin*
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>Angelina Jolie was once in a music video by Meat Loaf. Now, have any
>of you ever seen or listened to Mr. Loaf? If so, can you offer some
>sort of explanation for his existence? I'm waiting...
We're all waiting for the end of time so we can end our time with *YOU*......
Who cares about a Tomb Raider movie? Final Fantasy will be released next year!! :0)
Nick
-- "It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park" - Jim Moran
Go rent/buy Playing by Heart. Great movie.
I wouldn't say great movie, but great performance. Maybe the best I saw all year. Casting Jon Stewart (who I like, at least on TV) against Gillian Anderson was the worst casting ever. But keep the Sean Connery stuff and Jolie as Joan and it WAS a great movie. Probably better than the one she won an Oscar for.
Liked her in Hackers too :-)
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Now I'd really like to see a movie without a walking silicon plant as the big female star.
For God's sake there are many pretty and talented actresses that don't have implants.
If they just wanted the tits and lips they could've taken that gal that posed for the original Lara Croft model - I heard she has made a couple of 'changes' to her looks to make her look more (she's gone from a B cup to a DD or something similar - that's not where the talent is, missy, it's in the head!) like Croft.
L-ViS
Tomb raider doesn't sound like a porno,
but womb raider certainly does.
I would apportion the blame on Stallone, but Demolition Man was the film that Dredd should have been, and a lot of the problems with the Dredd movie were down to bad direction, not just Sly's 'Uh Um Duh Lauw' dialog. Mind you, there was also the issue of executives not wanting a villain that was 'too scary', vis-a-vis Judge Death.
The real highlight of Hackers was Fisher Stevens. Admit it. He was easilly the least menacing villain in the history of modern cinema. Without him, hackers would have been crap. With him, it was high camp. Maybe they could get him to play an evil archaeologist in Tomb Raider.
--Shoeboy
Why couldn't they have just picked up the "real" Lara Croft for the movie adaptation? I can't imagine a video-game-turned-movie is going to have much in the way of acting requirements, anyway.
True, but you still gotta have professional acting experience. That cuts it down to a small subset of those with good looks };-)
Incidentally, has anyone here seen the InciteGames poster of LC for TR: The Last Revelation? It's this almost life-size poster of a non-CG Lara. She looks all right, although the similarity to the canonical CG model is a bit of a stretch.
(Oh, and for those curious, she actually has (*gasp!*) realistically sized breasts! No helium hooters here, folks!)
The most amusing thing about that poster is the name of the model, mentioned way at the bottom-left corner: Lara Weller.
iSKUNK!
I guess there's not enough Canadians here yet, but there's a shot-in-Toronto TV series called "Relic Hunter" which is basically a female Indiana Jones. Haven't watched any episodes yet, cuz it looks *really* bad, and not Good bad either.
:)
On the Canadian Comedy Channel, there's a show called Buzz, which is like a gonzo Entertainment Tonight. In the commercials, there's footage of on of their reporters calling Tia over for a soundbite, and his question is this "Tia! Tia! I always watch Relic Hunter with the sound off. What's it about?"
Needless to say, Tia laughs very heartily! Score +1 for Tia for having a sense if humour.
Hell, she must have: she was is Kull!
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
See Womb Raider here.
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Actually, he almost backed out of his role as Eddie. Most of the actors had been in the stage production, but Meat hadn't seen the show. He rehearsed for awhile, working on "Hot Pattotie (Whatever happened to Saturday Night?)", his one song, without really seeing any of the rest of the cast.
When they put the whole thing together for a full cast rehearsal (to paraphrase Meat's own memories), Tim Curry came out in full corset and fishnets, wearing makeup, and Meat "got the HELL out of there". "No way... ain't no way I'm doing a drag show", as he related on his Storyteller's tour. The director or producer took him downtown and spent an afternoon convincing him to stay in the part.
He cites as his biggest influence a Football player, and he cites football and acting as his passions that he channels into music. His singing (and live shows) are more stage productions than your standard "musician on a stage" style.
Other than seeing him ever time he comes through, and meeting him several times, I also am a big Rocky Horror Fan (along with my girlfriend), and run timewarp.org.
-- Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
The first model hired to play her was Rhona Mitra. Then Nell McAndrew took over, and after hypeing herself up with the free publicity promptly blew it by appearing in Playboy (UK). Eidos/CORE immediately got a court injunction against Playboy forcing them to pull the magazine to put stickers on the cover to block out the words "Tomb Raider's Lara Croft - Nude!". (Trademark infringement IIRC.)
every video game franchise has
yet to find a script worth shooting
I'd shoot the Wing Commander script over and over again.... with my Uzi.
Why not? She's already playing a Lara clone in Relic Hunter (blatant T.R ripoff).
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In the beginning, Lara was a decent action hero. Yeah, she was exaggerated physically, but other than that she was believable. Tough but sexy, with the sexy more of an afterthought. Since then, the developers have gotten a bit too horny and full of themselves. Lara is now featured in magazines wearing swimpy swimsuits, or topless and covering herself with a towel, etc. Good grief. Teenage boys rule the game business.
After all, the Lara Croft character is basically a female Indiana Jones with a british accent, and very well.... well... endowed physique.
Everyone knows how well the Indiana Jones trilogy did. Can it be done without Speilberg at the helm? Can Angelina stand up to that kind of non-stop action as well as Harrison Ford? Who knows. But it IS possible.
And well endowed girls with british accents have enjoied a great deal of commercial sucess these last few years. Spice Girls anyone???
I can definately see it doing well at the box office... if it's done right. I can even see it being a very good movie... if it's done right. Angelina Jolie IS, after all, a very good actress (and the only high point of "Hackers") afterall.
john
Imagine all the people...
Way to burn some mod points OOG...
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Truly impressive.
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Erk! Only the other day aicn was reporting that Simon West was to direct a film remake of The Prisoner.
Perhaps the Brit-property adaptation stories have got muddled up. Or perhaps they are the same film. Personally, the thought of a Hollywood version of The Prisoner is bad enough without Lara Croft starring.
OT: OOG's post above seems to have attracted the following moderation:
Last time I checked, Troll was normally negative. Unless minus three people have moderated it. Hello sid=moderation people; there really is something odd going on...
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Hey OOG, would you settle for Nell McAndrew?
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...but I don't really see the Tomb Raider movie as being a big hit. Video game movies (Mario Bros, Double Dragon, etc...) never have done good. Ever. That was back when Super Mario Brothers was a household name.... and now... a Tomb Raider movie. Intrest in video game "icons" has dropped a lot since I was a kid... and I can't see anybody really loving this movie.. I mean, the only people that like the game are people that think Lara is hot and wanna have sex w/ her, or like how the game plays, the puzzles, and the overall feel of the game. Well, if you are in it it for the second one...sorry. But if you do like glorified breasts and the such... Tomb Raider sounds like a good choice.
but there is always porn too...
djsw
...never been a big fan myself, but I remember seeing the concept shots of an actress dressed up in the Tomb Raider outfit that were apparently used as the "inspiration" for the digital art of Lara Croft.
Why couldn't they have just picked up the "real" Lara Croft for the movie adaptation? I can't imagine a video-game-turned-movie is going to have much in the way of acting requirements, anyway.
Then again, I've been wrong before...
--Lenny
I am a man of const int sorrows
Kinda funny PVP's strip (today/yesterday depending on when you read this) just covered this.. though oddly enough, going with the rumour that she wasn't Lara croft.
You can check it out here
OOG NO LIKE TOMB RAIDER, BUT OOG WANT GET IT ON WITH LARA CROFT!!! OOG ALSO LIKE ANGELINA JOLIE!!! OOG NO CARE ABOUT OSCAR SHE WON, SHE MAKE OOG THINGIE GROW BIG!!! OOG THINK ANGELINA JOLIE HOTTER THAN ALL THOSE CAVE CHICKS OOG USUALLY DATES!!! OOG GO CLUB ANGELINA WITH OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN CLUB AND BRING HER BACK TO HIS CAVE!!! OOG WANT SEE MOVIE SOON, HOPE THERE BE NUDITY TO SATISIFY OOG!!! OOG BREAK HEAD IF NO NUDITY IN MOVIE!!!
OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN!!! OOG BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN SOURCE CD!!!
UGG HEAD LAWYER FOR ANGELINA JOLIE!!! UGG REQUEST RESTRAINING ORDER FROM JUDGE FRIENDS FOR OOG OPEN SOURCE SEXUAL HARASSER!!!
UGG ALSO NOTE FURTHER SEXIST CONVERSATIONS IN SLASHDOT COMMENTS BY OPEN SOURCE COMUNISTS!!! UGG SUBPOENA SLASHDOT REMOVE POSTINGS!!! ALL COMMENTS MUST BE ABOUT JOLIE ACTING ABILITY!!!
ANGELINA WENCH OF UGG!!! UGG BREAK OOG THINGIE!!!
UGG THE LAWYER!!! UGG BREAK OPEN SOURCE HEAD WITH LAWSUIT!!!
It should have been Natilie Portman!!!!
Harrison Ford is still indy, but he's a little old to be dragged by a truck. ;)
;)
;) Have the Zerg invade Earth or something similar, expand on the Raynor/Kerrigan relationship, and do something about those underpowered battlecruisers...
I was hoping Tomb Raider wouldn't be a movie, at least not a live action one. I mean, graphics have just about advanced to the point that there's no need to make a live-action film. Sink the millions into cut-scene quality animation and get some voice actors (that were used for the game, if possible). It's just a small beef about CG to live action conversion that rarely, if ever, works.
(like it really matters. At this point, TR is probably a cash cow, so milk away, Eidos.)
But eventually, I'd like to see a few RTS games get converted to movies. Just think: a game's storyline without glitchy AI!.....
Command and Conquer: After all the spiel about computer games sucking as movies...a game that used live actors for cut scenes and mission intros. And, for the most part, well acted. Kane's actor nailed Diabolical Evil. And, we'd get to see hapless redshirts get zapped by the Obelisk or squicked by armor. They could save money on production by splicing in ID4's exploding White House scene; ID4 won't be needing it.
Starcraft: Sponsorship by the National Propane Board.
Diablo: Oh. hell. yeah. Gauntlet, meet Blair Witch Project. I know it isn't rts, but the BWP angle puts this game on the list.
Earthseige/Starseige:
"Little Lord Peter was missing his leader
while Harabec played in the red.
Down came the glitches,
who burned us in ditches.
We slept after eating our dead." --Opening cutscene, Starseige.
I just want to see Prometheus get wiped out by the Starseige Bus. =O
Warzone 2100: Hello, Eidos...take advantage of the game's crew transfer functionality to send a single set of characters through the tech trees (which might turn the movie into a mini-series, but, Wah!).
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- Dolly Parton
- Kathy Bates
- Jenna Jamison
- Samuel L. Jackson
- The Pepsi Chick
- Tia Carrere
- Anne Heche
Personally, it looks like the films gonna suck, but at least we'll get some good adult film titles out of it, no?Exemplifying boobies, like Lara
The 'big-boned' tomb raider.
Doesn't tomb raider kind of sound like a porno?
The wise-crackin', ass-trashin', bitch-slappin, yoda-fashion tomb raider
The cute tomb raider with the Pepsi tie-ins.
The exotic tomb raider
The lesbian tomb raider