Lara Croft Models Will “Never Happen Again”; Origin Story Movie Will, and a movie is coming

“That will never happen again,” Tomb Raider's Karl Stewart says. “We want to create a visceral experience. We want people to look at Lara and see the psychological aspect of her character.

“Having a real Lara out there doing cartwheels kind of destroys that.”

So we won't be seeing a Croft model rolled out to help promote what is quickly becoming one of my most anticipated games of 2012, despite the fact that the women who voices her is an actress. But that doesn't mean that all fiction surrounding this reinvention of Croft as a more relevant character will be limited to the Tomb Raider game.

Earlier this year, it was announced that Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (the writers behind Children of Men and Ironman) will be writing the screenplay for a new Tomb Raider Movie. The movie is expected to come out in early 2013, well after the game hits.

While it won't be a movie that recreates the game's story, it will be one inspired by the game's new vision of Croft as a young woman shipwrecked on an island.

“They bought into the vision of taking a 21-year-old girl on her first adventure,” Stewart said. “We're excited that the movie will be about Lara going down that same path.

“We had the opportunity to go out and look for partners for the movie. I think we've picked the right partner to cement something very solid. They've done some phenomenal things in the past.”
source: 2DayBlog.com