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Back when we were discussing movies we’d love to see with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, many people expressed an interest in seeing Angelina return as Lara Croft in another Tomb Raider installment. Looks like it’s not going to happen.
Apparently the role of Lara Croft will be resumed by someone new, 23-year-old Alison Carroll. You can check it out over here.
(I was amused by the story about how she got locked in her apartment the day of her big meeting with producers and had to throw her bags over the first-floor balcony, leaped over, and jumped the fence to get there.)
It will be interesting to see how she holds up. To me, Angelina Jolie will always be Lara Croft so I’m not sure how well I can accept a new version. It would be, to me, as if they replaced Harrison Ford as Han Solo in Return of the Jedi.
On the other hand, if Angelina does indeed take on the new CIA role sometime next year, she’ll still have plenty of time for high action stunt work!
Edited to add: I read this late last night, after a very long and tiring day. As a result I misunderstood and didn’t realize that this new girl is not starring in an upcoming movie, she is simply the new promotional girl for the game. Sorry for the confusion.
However, now I’d like to open it up for discussion and ask you all who else in Hollywood could play Lara Croft if Angelina Jolie did not take the role for a hypothetical new Tomb Raider film? If it can’t be her, who’s your next choice? The only person I can think of off the top of my head is maybe Jennifer Garner because of her great work on Alias. The biggest problem there, though is that she doesn’t quite look the part. She’s very pretty but she’s more of the “girl next door” look whereas Angelina really did look like Lara Croft is supposed to.
Ideas?
Image used with permission: Newscom
Angelina Jolie is Lara Croft, and there is no two ways about it. The Jolie is Lady Croft!!
It’ll be like changing Indiana Jones with a diff actor after the first two movies, never be the same…….
Sure Batman has gone thru many reincarnation and Bale being the best yet, but how do you top when the first is already the best…… Though I could see Spiderman with someone diferent, Tobey McGuire is not whom I could relate as Peter Parker…sigh!!
Anyways I also heard that this new girl is for the new TR game, not the movie….. Am still hoping Angie will take up Lara’s leather outfit in the future.
i don’t get it? why would they replace her? she’s the one and only Lara Croft and i don’t think people will be much interested if they indeed cast a new LC.
Oh, got distracted. :-)
All the reports I read, except the link above, said the new actress was for the game. I took this to mean she’d be the model for a new Lara Croft game. Action movies cost LOTS of money ($115M for Lara Croft: TR, $110M for MMS) and studios don’t usually risk that kind of money on an unknown. And none of the trades have said anything about a new Lara Croft movie. If there is a new movie, then best of luck to her. Angelina will always be the real Lara Croft.
After reading the article my understanding is that this model is going to be the face for the video games, replacing the last model. I didn’t think it meant she was doing the movie as well. Not sure if Angelina would reprise her role but I’m also not sure that a model rather than another actress would carry on the movie roll.
Oh, just found link confirming that Alison Carroll is Lara Croft’s new face for the video game only, replacing former model Nell McAndrew.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2541270/New-Lara-Croft-unveiled-for-latest-Tomb-Raider-video-game.html
(Also, the kids go on set with Mum and Da when they’re working.)
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117990445&cs=1
‘Changeling’ highlights N.Y. festival
By DADE HAYES
Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” will make its North American preem as the centerpiece of the 46th New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said Tuesday.
Fest runs Sept. 26-Oct. 12.
Universal’s “Changeling,” which drew plaudits in Cannes, stars Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins, a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles who embarks on a quest for justice when her 9-year-old son goes missing.
Unlike downtown’s comparative upstart Tribeca, the New York Film Festival remains a small-scaled, tastemaking affair featuring the cream of the international crop.
Remember – those children will need their daddy too.
How is it that women can’t work and be a parent too? What special quality do men have that they can work and be good parents at the same time? Raising a family and working isn’t an either/or proposition – it’s both/and.
The point is that staying at home with the kids is not a choice for most women – not for billions of women around the world. And for those who have a choice, like Angelina, it doesn’t mean that they are barred from fulfilling themselves by being an artist, scientist, politician, goodwill ambassador, entrepreneur, etc.
We’ve come a long way from the days when the ‘little woman’ stayed home with the kids and was solely responsible for childcare. That’s a luxury very few people can afford nowadays. Because of the state of the economy since the 1960s, both parents have had to work to make ends meet. Many have to work 2, sometimes 3, jobs to support their family. That doesn’t make them bad parents – it makes good parents because they’re providing for their family.
I get the impression from reading the article that this girl is taking on the promotional responsibilities of the gaming version of Lara Croft.
I don’t think this is a casting decision related to the movie franchise.
NOT REPLACING JOLIE — A new Lara Croft is picked every few years to replace previous models for CONVENTIONS. This girl has nothing to do with a new movie or an Angelina replacement. The Lara models have been around and used for promotion longer than the actual movies have been around so feel better and don’t worry.
There is no LAURA CROFT movie the girl is the new face of the video game.
Actually, this article refers to a role not for the movie but instead as the face of the video game franchise…traveling to promote etc. So there is still hope for a Jolie reprisal.
sorry, sticky keyboard
i’m glad she will work a little less this year.Six children will need mommy to help with the ineviadble adjustments .
my friend and i would prefer jennifer garner for the role but she’s already elektra…but then for me, no one can measure up jolie’s performance in tomb raider…
IF WON’T BE THEY SAME. ANGELINA IS ALWAYS BE LARA CROFT. NO ONE CAN REPLACE HER. I THINK SHE JUST DON’T WANT TO TAKE THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW,BECUZ OF LOCATION PROBLEMS AND THE BABIES ARE STILL TOO LITTLE TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE. THIS YEAR SHE DID NOT MAKE ANY MOVIE AT ALL, STILL SHE WAS IN THE FORBES LIST OF MONEY MAKING. ALL THOSE MOVIES THAT WAS SHOWN WAS MADE THREE TO 2 YEARS AGO. SO SHE WAS MAKING MONEY SOMEHOW THRU ANY ADVERTISING. BRAD WAS THE ONE WHO WAS MAKING MOVIES THIS YEAR.CHANGELLING WAS MADE LAST YEAR AND WAS JUST FINISHING UP THIS YEAR, STILL ANGELINA IS MY LARA CROFT NO ONE ELSE.