

"I think a lot of it, frankly, had to do with studios not understanding genre, and not understanding comic books, and then not putting filmmakers that they could trust, who also had an embedded love of these properties. “If you grew up on video games, there’s a language to those games that I think seeps into your brain at a very young age.” “I just don’t think that the right filmmakers have been paired with video game adaptations yet–people who have had their DNA and their brains re-wired by games. “A big part of it is not fully committing to the source material, being able to say ‘No, this is what makes this great, so let’s figure out how we translate it.”


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Yesterday, the Warner Brothers film released the movie poster along with a short clip with the promise of a full trailer later today.Īs we near 6PM, the release cannot be far off, with most trailers tending to drop around 6PM as to attract the biggest possible global audience, so stand by for the trailer any minute now. “‘How can we demonstrate them in the story, but make her feel like a young woman in 2018?’” “We asked, ‘What are the famous traits of this person?’” recalls Vikander in the newest edition of Empire Magazine when asked about her role as the new, much younger Ms. Hopefully, with Oscar winner and Ex Machina actress Alicia Vikander in the role of Lara Croft, we'll not only have ourselves a decent actress, but also a far better female action hero than the overly-sexualised Angelina Jolie interpretation of the character back in the early noughties. This new Lara Croft movie, actually looks, dare we say it, pretty good.įor years, gaming fans have been left frustrated as countless Hollywood types attempted to cash in on movies inspired by popular video games and for the most part they've all drastically failed.Įven Resident Evil - while undoubtedly popular enough at the cinema to spawn several sequels - everyone knows deep down is a great big bag of cow poop.Īssassin's Creed last year, looked the business, but like so many films before it - Need for Speed, Warcraft, Prince of Persia - the movie was passable, not insulting to the source material, but largely forgettable. While the whole world has gone absolutely bonkers with Alicia Vikander's slightly freaky looking neck in the new Tomb Raider movie poster, they've all seemingly overlooked one rather key point.
