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Tomb Raider 2 Gets Disappointing Update From Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander provides a disappointing update regarding the long-awaited Tomb Raider 2. After Angelina Jolie first brought the iconic Lara Croft to life back in 2001, the 2018 reboot from director Roar Uthaug saw Vikander take on the role. Telling the story of Croft's attempts to rescue her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), from an exotic island, Tomb Raider acts as something of an origin story for the character, with the ending clearly setting up a sequel. The film earned mixed reviews from both audiences and critics and performed adequately at the box office, earning $274 million worldwide.
Not long after the success of the first film, it was announced that Tomb Raider 2 would be moving forward. Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green was tapped to direct and write the sequel, which was originally given a release date of March 2021. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Tomb Raider 2 experienced significant delays. However, Green shared an update on social media in May of 2021, revealing that her working title featured on the front page of the script is Tomb Raider: Obsidian. Concrete news of the Tomb Raider sequel has been hard to come by in recent months, but both Vikander and Green are seemingly still on board.
In a new interview with EW, Vikander provides another update on the long-awaited Tomb Raider 2, revealing that Amazon's buyout of MGM has complicated matters. Though positive progress seemed to come last year, that has changed. Check out Vikander's disappointing update below:
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"With the MGM and Amazon buyout, I have no clue. Now it's kind of politics. I think Misha and I have been ready, so it's kind of in somebody else's hands, to be honest."
MGM, the studio responsible for the first Tomb Raider, was bought by Amazon in March of this year for a whopping $8.5 billion. According to Vikander, it's more the behind-the-scenes business and political ramifications of this sale that are responsible for Tomb Raider 2 not moving forward, rather than any creative misgivings. In fact, Vikander has been open about her excitement in working with Green on this film. It seems that in purchasing MGM, Amazon is reconsidering various projects. In any case, Vikander's latest statement doesn't bode well for the long-gestating sequel entering production anytime soon, as it sounds like a number of business hurdles still stand in the way.
It remains unclear what the story of Tomb Raider 2 would have been about, but the ending to the first film sees Croft finally pick up the two pistols the character is known for from the video game source material, hinting at more adventures to come. Although the first film earned mostly mixed reviews, it's clear that both Vikander and Green were enthusiastic about continuing the character's journey in a sequel. More than a year has passed since Tomb Raider 2 was originally scheduled to be released, however, and Vikander's latest comment affirms that the film is very much in limbo with no end in sight.
