‘Kill List’ and ‘Free Fire’ filmmaker, Ben Wheatley has signed on the dotted line to take over the director’s chair on MGM’s upcoming ‘Tomb Raider’ sequel.
Wheatley takes over the hot seat from Roar Uthaug who directed the first in 2018. Amy Jump is onboard to write the sequel’s script, while Graham King and Elizabeth Cantillon will produce. Alicia Vikander will also return to reprise her role as Lara Croft.
The 2018 reboot saw Vikander take over the role of Lara Croft from Angelina Jolie who fronted the original films back in 2001 and the sequel in 2003. Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas all starred in the reboot which saw Croft embarking on a perilous journey to discover what happened to her eccentric Father. Journeying to his last-known destination – a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. The...
Wheatley takes over the hot seat from Roar Uthaug who directed the first in 2018. Amy Jump is onboard to write the sequel’s script, while Graham King and Elizabeth Cantillon will produce. Alicia Vikander will also return to reprise her role as Lara Croft.
The 2018 reboot saw Vikander take over the role of Lara Croft from Angelina Jolie who fronted the original films back in 2001 and the sequel in 2003. Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas all starred in the reboot which saw Croft embarking on a perilous journey to discover what happened to her eccentric Father. Journeying to his last-known destination – a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. The...
- 9/5/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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