Tomb Raider Reboot

Many people of that generation were dismayed to discover that archaeology only occasionally involves punching out Nazis.

Or weird (and some might argue a bit racist) evil Hindu cult members.

Actually, I do wonder who will end up being the villain(s) of this film?

Quite a bit racist. That movie's banned in India.

Although the actor who played Mola Ram was India's Tim Curry equivalent for YEARS apparently. Or maybe Alan Rickman is a better comparison?

Neither really works. He did some insanely hammy stuff but also plenty of more low key and serious work too.

@thatindian - Yeah, I heard that. I'm not surprised at all.

I watched it when I was, what, 12? I remember being the most disturbed by...people getting eaten by crocodiles. XD

RE: Grave-robbing.

In a book I read by Robert Ballard about the discovery of the Titanic's wreck, he has a bit where he disparages Indiana Jones as a grave robber. He's been vastly opposed to tourists visiting the site and taking pieces from it. Afterward he was reluctant to say where the Bismarck's wreck was located until the Germany Navy took custody of the area and declared it a war grave that should be left undisturbed except for authorized studies.

See the thing is Jones is a terrible archaeologist. All those traps he sets off are much more valuable than some gold trinket. That can only tell them so much but the entire structure? It shows how amazingly advanced that civillisation was.

"Archaeologist Tired Of Unearthing Unspeakable Ancient Evils"

I remember hearing almost exactly the same thing in one of my archaeology lectures.

Ah thanks Indian. I knew he played a shit ton of bad guys through out his career and was generally known as a villain actor, just didn't know what kind.

Not just villains though. One of his most famous roles was the loving but stern and out of touch father in Dilwale Dhulania Lejayenge. (Those with Heart shall take the Bride.)

Ah cool, thanks.

A great villain role of his was in the movie 'Nayak'. He's a corrupt Chief Minister (what would be a governer in America) who challenges a hard hitting journalist to do his job for one day, only for that journalist to make such a statement that he becomes a people's champion. It sounds like a comedy but it's not.

First set pics.

edited 6th Feb '17 10:09:05 AM by comicwriter

Reminds me of Tomb Raider (2013). I am pleased.

The funny thing is Indiana Jones is SUPPOSED to be a bad archaeologist in Raiders. It's an arc that he has become almost as bad as Belloq.

Bad? But he's so cool.

New first look.

edited 27th Mar '17 9:39:20 AM by comicwriter

One of the more recent Indiana Jones video games made a big deal out of how much of a creaky old man he was (he runs awkwardly, and is constantly making comments about how stiff he is and how painful a lot of his more harrowing acrobatic maneuvers are), and this was apparently the game makers' joke about how limber and impossibly acrobatic Lara Croft is in her games.

I think Lara's game titles say it very well; she's not an archaeologist, she's a raider of tombs. Indy, while apparently he was an archaeologist, was more interested in pieces he could sell to his museum (couldn't haul the traps out of the temple and put 'em on display, at least not with the resources he had at his disposal). People tend to forget that in that first film, Indy's a darker and more morally ambiguous character (the dichotomy between his classroom persona and his field persona is mentioned in the script and original character description, but has hardly ever been played up as an actual part of Indy's psychology since). The early Indy novels capture that pretty well, too, the ones put out between Raiders and Temple of Doom.

edited 27th Mar '17 9:57:42 AM by Robbery

We also have an official synopsis, courtesy of NME/Eurogamer:

Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, the dad-plot does add some more obvious and immediate focus to the proceedings, I suppose.

"Bike-courier", though.

edited 28th Mar '17 5:34:08 AM by LE0Night

Are bike couriers even a thing in London though? That being said, I am cautiously optimistic about this movie.

Is Sam in the movie?

We're getting the first trailer for this tomorrow, there's a teaser out now and the first footage in looks a tad... corny?

There's a new poster too, and, as pointed out by many, it makes it look like her head is about to twist around and drop off, The Thing-style.

She hasn't been announced yet, if so, there's someone named "Sophie" in the credits who's being played by the same lady who's about to do Ghost in the next Ant Man film but if she's a replacement or someone else entirely, who knows.

Walton Goggins has also been cast, by the way, as "Mathias Vogel", I assume that's basically Father Mathias from the game-reboot.

I would have used one of the poses from the game covers. They're all very evocative and show that she's an adventurer.

At least she has the pickaxe. That thing is about as synonymous with her as the 45's were in the original game.