On July 19, Alicia Vikander revealed that the “Tomb Raider” sequel was in limbo following Amazon’s purchase of MGM. Although the actress expressed a desire to continue as Lara Croft, things didn’t sound very good. And now what she feared is confirmed: MGM canceled the project and lost the rights to the franchise.
As TheWrap exclusive revealed, the studio had until May of this year to launch the sequel, but decided not to move forward, thus losing the adaptation rights of the popular video game, which returned to Graham King and his. manufacturing company. GK Films, which has developed a new deal with the video game company that owns them to sell them. This gave rise to an intense auction in Hollywood with a good number of studios and streaming platforms struggling to take over the property.
Of course, it is confirmed that, if he were to move forward, he would be left without Vikander, since the Swedish actress is no longer tied to the franchise. As TheWrap points out, The new movie “Tomb Raider” would be another full reboot with a new actress in the role of Lara Croft, not a sequel to the 2018 film, which grossed $ 276.6 million worldwide. The canceled sequel had Misha Green (“Lovecraft Territory”). Currently, the new reboot has no protagonist or director or director confirmed.
The curse of what?
In recent years, Hollywood is completely ignoring the alleged curse of video gamesdeveloping numerous adaptations for both theaters and streaming, many of them very ambitious and with very high budgets.
We recently had a reboot of “Resident Evil” in theaters (although it wasn’t very lucky) and as a series for Netflix, in addition to the “Halo” series or the acclaimed “Arcane”, set in the “League of Legends”. ‘universe.’. Soon we will have a series of “The Last of Us” on HBO with Pedro Pascal and There are also adaptations of “BioShok”, “Fallout”, “Metal Gear Solid” (with Oscar Isaac as Solid Snake), “Assassin’s Creed”, “Horizon” or “God of War” in development.. Not to mention the outstanding theatrical success of ‘Sonic’ and the upcoming animated film ‘Super Mario Bros.’, starring Chris Pratt as the voice of Nintendo’s plumber.
Source: E Cartelera
