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Tomb raider next movie8/29/2023 Cooper, Mike Werb, Michael Colleary, Patrick Massett and John Zinman. West thus worked on the screenplay, and he’d eventually share writing credits with Sara B. It didn’t have a script, but at least Tomb Raider had a director.įor West’s part, he recalled that “the script was in fluidity… it was very hard for me to prep, because it was never a stationary target.” Crucially, “the risk of losing the rights meant there was no time to stand back and think.” He was open to a big film to make, and Paramount had one that needed making. But with The General’s Daughter scratching his itch to make a thriller, he felt comfortable taking on a tentpole feature again. West had sought something different from a flat-out blockbuster after breaking through with the immortal 1996 hit, Con Air. It had been working with Simon West on the John Travolta-headlined The General’s Daughter, which would be a solid hit for the studio when it was released in late summer 1999. Working alongside this, though, Paramount was seeking a director. There was precious little sign of the film going before the cameras. ![]() Scripts went backwards and forwards, and by 1999, eleven writers at least had given the screenplay a shot. Steven E De Souza, of Die Hard and Street Fighter: The Movie fame, also put together a draft. Brett V Friedman ( Mortal Kombat: Annihilation) came up with a screenplay that wasn’t used. Scripts were thus commissioned, and plenty of writers had a go. Core and Eidos clearly didn’t want the project languishing and left unmade, and thus it inserted a clause into the deal: if no work was done by the studio on a Tomb Raider movie for 45 days, the option to make the film would be lost. After a fierce fight, it thus inked a deal in conjunction with producer Lawrence Gordon and Paramount Pictures. Core Design and its parent, Eidos, knew it had something special, and knew it could play hardball. ![]() It was 1996 when Tomb Raider was first released, and the battle for film rights commenced quickly. It seemed inevitable, not least given the series’ clear Indiana Jones influences, that Tomb Raider – and Lara Croft – would go to the movies. Anyway: the games sold, and the ensuing sequels became huge blockbusters in their own right, until the procession of follow-ups drained the franchise of impact and ideas (see also: Assassin’s Creed).
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