Tomb Raider (1996 video game)
Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released in 1996 for Sega Saturn, PlayStation and MS-DOS. "Tomb Raider" was released for N-Gage devices in 2003, and for the PlayStation Network in North America in August 2009, and in Europe in August 2010. "Tomb Raider" follows the exploits of Lara Croft, an English archaeologist in search of ancient treasures.
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A short film called "Tomb Raider: The Trilogy" was produced in 1998 by Silver Films for the "Tomb Raider III" launch party, the film was not screened outside the event at the Natural History Museum in London. Producer Janey de Nordwall, who recently found the original digibeta tape, released the short film on the "Tomb Raider" YouTube page in 2016. Lara Croft makes a minor appearance in the 2018 film "Ready Player One".
Rumours of a third film adaptation appeared in 2007, and it was announced in 2009. The film rights were acquired by GK Films in 2011, and in 2015 it was confirmed that a director was attached to the project, and that it would be developed by GK Films, Warner Bros. and MGM. The film is a reboot, showing Lara's first adventure and is based on the 2013 video game with Lara searching for her father. On 28 April 2016, it was announced by Variety that Alicia Vikander had been cast as Lara Croft in the reboot. On 7 December 2016, Variety reported that Walton Goggins had been cast as the film's villain. He told Collider that his character is confused, angry, and desperate. He later called the plot ""Raiders of the Lost Ark" meets a genre version of the Joseph Conrad novel """. On 11 January 2017, Variety reports that Daniel Wu is cast as Lu Ren, a ship captain who will join forces with the adventurous Lara Croft on her quest to find her father. The film was scheduled to start filming in January 2017, with a release date of 16 March 2018. Filming began on 23 January 2017.
Adrian Askarieh told IGN in an interview that he may oversee a film universe with "Just Cause", "", "Tomb Raider", "Deus Ex" and "Thief".