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8 Ways The Tomb Raider Movie Is Obscenely Faithful To The Game

  • Posted on Sep 27, 2017Jan 25, 2018
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8 Ways

The Tomb Raider Movie

is Obscenely Faithful to the Game

By Matthew Arcilla

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At some point in time, the amount of superhero comic books that can be adapted will diminish. Hollywood will reach the maximum rate at which it can extract superheroes and then enter into a terminal decline. This is known as ‘peak superhero’ and it’s a terrible issue facing our pop culture.

That’s why Hollywood has been looking to video games, an emerging source of intellectual property to be mined for cinematic fodder. But despite dozens of attempts across multiple decades, Hollywood has yet to produce video game-based movie that succeeds both critically and commercially.

It’s been flops from Super Mario Brothers to Assassin’s Creed but that hasn’t stopped Square Enix Europe and Warner Bros. Pictures from trying to make a go for a Tomb Raider movie, based on the long-running franchise. It wouldn’t be the first time: Angelina Jolie starred in two mostly forgettable movies as Lara Croft. The surrounding hype blitz catapulted Jolie from rising star to recognizable icon.

The upcoming movie is directed by Roar Uthaug and stars Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) as Lara Croft. It is currently scheduled for release on March 16, 2018. A trailer dropped this week, so let’s take a look at the ways it’s obscenely faithful to the video game.

There Are Daddy Issues


Via Fandom via Lara Croft Wiki

Lara’s father, Lord Richard Croft, has always been a fixture in the lore of the character despite numerous adaptations. This new movie is no different, taking inspiration from the 2013 reboot – dubbed the ‘Survivor’ Timeline by fans. In it, Croft is a disgraced scholar whose passion for archaeology has driven him to ruin. Lara reconnects with him through his secrets, which brings us to…

 


Trinity, Our Franchise Mega Threat


Via Warner Bros. Pictures

Lara Croft hasn’t had the most memorable iconic villains, at least not in the way James Bond or Batman do. For the movies, they’ve instead chosen to set up a larger threat known as Trinity. This mysterious organization is lifted directly from 2016’s Rise of the Tomb Raider and seeks to control the world through the acquisition of powerful relics.

 

Daniel Wu Is The Sidekick


Via Warner Bros. Pictures

Wu plays Lu Ren, a friend of Lara’s and captain of the ship that takes her to The Dragon’s Triangle where much of the action and intrigue takes place. Ren doesn’t seem explicitly based on any character from the games but he seems like a pastiche of Conrad Roth, the captain of the Endurance and Samantha Nishimura, Lara’s best friend, both from 2013 ‘Survivor Timeline.’

 

Infamous Character Actor Walton Goggins Is In It


Via Warner Bros. Pictures

“Hey it’s that guy!” You might recognize Walton Goggins from The Shield, Justified or Sons of Anarchy even if you don’t remember his name. This hard-working character actor was tapped to play Mathias Vogel, one of the mysterious inhabitants of the island of Yamatai. Fans of the 2013 ‘Survivor Timeline’ will recognize the name, and it’s spoilers for me to say anything more.

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