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*

Comments

Who was the original Lara Croft model?

[slothbait]

...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

How faithful will the movie be?

[HalloFlippy]

To truly be a TR movie, the following must be adhered to:

1. .45's never run out of ammo.
2. When she's at Death's Door in the remote jungles of India, in ruins not seen by human eyes in hundreds of years, just look in that statue over there and, lo and behold, there's a full MediPak!
3. surviving for hours in the icy wastes of Tibet with nothing on but a flight jacket and tight shorts.
4. anytime she throws a switch, she clairvoyantly knows which door was opened.
5. Laura can out-swim the Great White.

PVP just did something on this

[Spiff28]

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 GO SEE MOVIE!!!

[OOG_THE_CAVEMAN]

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!!!

UGG BREAK OOG THINGIE!!!

[UGG_THE_LAWYER]

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!!!

AH CRAP!

[evil-beaver]

It should have been Natilie Portman!!!!

Now if they'll go make some RTS movies...

[Evil Poot Cat]

Harrison Ford is still indy, but he's a little old to be dragged by a truck. ;)

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. ;) Have the Zerg invade Earth or something similar, expand on the Raynor/Kerrigan relationship, and do something about those underpowered battlecruisers...

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!).

Re:hacker girl ...

[G27 Radio]

Well the hacker girl Acid Burn becomes the most sought after cyber sex symbol in the world. Coincidence? I think not. She's sexy... and made geeks around the world think that any gorgeous woman will fall for you if you talk about RISC chips and hack the gibson. Ohh yeah and beat plague

Chicks dig Linux. I found the proof on ECLiPt's website. It's got to be true (please be true...)

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Important Question!

[luckykaa]

How good is her upper class English spoilt brat accent?

Pictures here

[Anonymous Coward]

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Potentials?

[Hrunting]

I mean, okay, I can definitely see Jolie filling the role of Lara Croft (and I'm quite unhappy that she'll be filling more than Lara's shoes as I was truly hoping that we'd see the more risque side of tomb raiding), but let's see who else we can think of to actually give some commentary beyond, "Oh, man, she's a hottie," and "OOG BONK HER OVER HEAD WITH OPEN SOURCE CLUB."

1. Dolly Parton
   Exemplifying boobies, like Lara
   
2. Kathy Bates
   The 'big-boned' tomb raider.
   
3. Jenna Jamison
   Doesn't tomb raider kind of sound like a porno?
4. Samuel L. Jackson
   The wise-crackin', ass-trashin', bitch-slappin, yoda-fashion tomb raider
   
5. The Pepsi Chick
   The cute tomb raider with the Pepsi tie-ins.
   
6. Tia Carrere
   The exotic tomb raider
   
7. Anne Heche
   The lesbian tomb raider

Personally, it looks like the films gonna suck, but at least we'll get some good adult film titles out of it, no?