Tomb Raider (Reboot)

pixelburp wrote: »

It gets further odd though, because Ben Wheatley is tipped to direct

It seems MGM lost the rights to it because they didn't start filming within the window they needed to start filming to keep the rights.

Maybe Amazon when they bought MGM this got lost in the shuffle.

The movies themselves were never box office smashes in anyway shape or form.

It might be better suited to a series than movies if they try and film it again.

Yeah, her writing would've given us a completely different thing to the last movie.

I don't know if a TV series would be the best move either. I don't know if Lara is a strong enough character or has a good enough story. Plus part of the appeal would be the locations and stunts, and the budget of a TV show would likely make all of that horrible and cheap.

I'd say a Netflix or Disney+ movie would be the best course of action. Reduce the budget and pressure of a big theatrical release, but not stretch it out so thin that it needs to support a series.

Much more suited to a TV series. Disney have a "National Treasure" TV series coming out but, if it's anything like the (goofy guilty pleasure) Cage movies, they'll be family friendly romps. That leaves space for a slightly more adult series. I'm not saying go down Game of Thrones route or even a particularly violent angle but simply something a bit more serious and in depth.

And not even the perma-outraged anti-woke brigade could complain (Although I'm sure they'd find SOMETHING to complain about).

But yeah, it is much more suited to a TV series. And not a "tomb-of-the-week" type thing but maybe "Tomb-of-the-season" type thing. TBH, as said above, most game adaptations would be more suited to TV rather than movies. Certainly streaming services where they can put in the money and have 6 or 8 episode runs per season. Uncharted, Mass Effect (Much too big for a movie) etc. I mean if studios can take a slim novel like The Hobbit and turn it into about 24 hundred hours (it seems) of movies including a 2 hour sing-a-long-washing-dishes scene then how do they think they can compress a game with hours of back-story into one movie? Especially single-player games created in the last 20 years or so. My God, I think one of the Metal Gear games had one cutscene alone that was over 1 hour long

Yeah they're making a Metal Gear Solid movie, whereas it's far more suited to a TV show imo.

It’s only thin if you decide to leave it thin. There’s plenty of scope to move far beyond the constraints of the existing stories and make something really interesting. Just using the existing IP as the foundation to build a more interesting and nuanced story and world upon.

feels like it has been done, somehow..

On the other side, the universe as it exists is sparse enough for them to flesh out and fill in the blanks themselves instead of being beholden to established nonsense that doesn't translate from games to film/tv. Having an excellent writer on board can only help that anyway.