Tomb Raider

[KcMsterpce]

If you do a Lara Croft show, and you have someone that is the opposite of Lara Croft, doing the opposite of things the character is known for, then why make it at all?

Also, Sophie Turner is a terrible choice.

[BluBonnet]

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Can you please not provide photos without context?

What are we looking at? The next actress portraying Lara?

[chip75]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

What are we looking at? The next actress portraying Lara?

It's Sophie Turner according to Reddit.

Nothing against Sophie, I think there could be better choices, but I think she's said in the past she's gotten parts over better choices because she has a bigger social media presence.

[BluBonnet]

I think she’s been working out

[John1701D]

Confirmed to be Sophie Turner and begins filming in January.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/tom...er-1236506192/

[eightslicesofpie]

Hell yeah

[drb999]

Yes!

[DThompson]

Only ever seen her in GoT and X-Men Apocalypse. Hopefully she has become a better actress over the years because she was the weak link in those.

[KcMsterpce]

I'm looking for Short Round's baseball cap.
Because I'm going to puke in it.

[dallywhitty]

Not sure about Sophie Turner as Lara, but I'll keep an open mind. More than anything, I just hope the show's well-written. I'm not feeling particularly optimistic about the future of the franchise.

[Warm Gun]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Not sure about Sophie Turner as Lara, but I'll keep an open mind. More than anything, I just hope the show's well-written. I'm not feeling particularly optimistic about the future of the franchise.

I have NO hope for the future of Tomb Raider. Only the original trilogy of games written by the same woman got it right. Before they gave her a mentor, a childhood, a father, a mother, and then the Survivor trilogy where she wasn't just seeking out adventure for the fun of it anymore, but had to suffer. Should have kept her mysterious. They can still return to that, but won't because they don't get why she was already massively popular in the beginning and never will get it.

[KcMsterpce]

IDK what to say, really. When you hire an untalented actress that looks like an anorexic, strung out meth addict for a character that started out as a busty, confident, self-assured intelligent adventurer that - over the last handful of years - has been transformed into a wimpy, whiny self-sorry sad sack of sadness that is pushed into some kind of quest... Seeing Turner as the next iteration of Croft hints that they won't play up the character that became famous.
They are going to lean further into the complete assassination of Lara Croft. This has reached a new peak that was established with the animated series, and was on the "verge of becoming" when Vikander did her movie (which I liked, and hoped they would make another installment with improvements on its potential). Back then, the movie was trying to balance the "original fans' desires for what Tomb Raider is about" and juggling the "new games and unwilling-to-do-adventures Croft fanbase". It kind of failed at both, but also did a great job establishing that they are OBVIOUSLY trying to balance incorporating the "new" Croft while trying not to abandon the OG fans of the games/franchise.

With Turner in this role, it's obvious that they are doubling down on the already doubled-down "remix" of a "new" Tomb Raider, which is a deconstructionist slap in the face to the source material. Without the Croft that made the franchise popular, these "new iterations " couldn't be created in the first place. But they smite, spit and dismiss that as "aged", but... I wager a fair number of the viewers keep watching with the hope that it couldn't get worse, but... here we are.
We are now stuck with Turner as the next person named Lara Croft, but only in name, not in any other manner. The Lara Croft of today is not a "Tomb Raider".... she is using the name of someone that was once famous, adored by young boys with hopes and dreams of a female sexy Bond who could kick ass solving puzzles, to... whatever this imitation sludge is.

[oubukibun]

Oh, just let it DIE...

Or at the very least give us one decent trap room sequence! And ENOUGH with the daddy drama!

Tomb Raider III is my favorite of the video games precisely because it barely has a story, and what little of it there is becomes absolutely inconsequential as you navigate the absolutely diabolical levels they designed.

They won't ever get that right. But they also can't seem to get anything else. Jolie's two outings came closest. Vikander's had such a good start and some pretty stellar pedigree (I thought they would for sure make Scott Thomas reveal herself as Natla by the end... sigh, what could've been).

I am waiting for Sophie Turner to display something beyond that pinched look on her face as if she's just seen someone defecate in front of her.

[KcMsterpce]

I don't like the Jolie Tomb Raider movies. They both suck, IMO.
Vikander's TR was a good movie. I try to separate what I want from Lara Croft in a movie with what we GOT with that version. It was kind of like me seeing a female Nathan Drake flick. I looked at it more like that, and it works great with that mentality.

At the same time, I respect that Jolie's movies at least leaned into the more "physically busty and shamelessly overpowered" element, but I think it was over-the-top in ways that I can't appreciate. It is wayyy too dumb-down and simplistic for me to feel that it was worthy of what I loved about the first few games.
It doesn't even matter that I find Angelina Jolie to be a hideously ugly specimen of human construction (she's hideous)... back when I watched the first movie, I was disappointed that they focused on the wrong - uhm - assets of Lara Croft.
Where the new version of Croft is the antithesis of the first games, Jolie's movies only focused on the most base, simplistic and cliched aspects of her character.
Croft was always interesting to me because she was focused on the ADVENTURE of her quest to find treasure. She used her intelligence and athleticism (as a player) to solve complex puzzles that couldn't just be unlocked with luck. She had smarts. That's how I perceived her in the old games.
Also, she wasn't doing these missions because she was guilty for some past regret, or upset that her daddy did something that she needs to set right. It's about wanting to break the monotony of being rich and irrelevant. She did these quests because she wanted to have FUN. She didn't give a damn about what others thought of her actions, or the political sensitivities of this stuff.
Also, when she was confronted with competitors trying to use her, kill her, and take the prize for themselves... she confidently confronted them and satisfied that aspect of her adventurism as she dispatched them when needed.
But killing wasn't really her thing. It wasn't even so much about "fortune and glory", which I feel the current iterations of her character are saying was one of her "biggest sins" (That, and having big boobs I guess).

Croft was brash, determined, intelligent, beautiful, confident, and adventurous without self-pity, and never ashamed of herself and her actions.
Heck, she was even somewhat selfish, but only due to her confidence and ability to reinforce that by succeeding at what she seeks out to accomplish.
She would face challenges head on, and not worry about "Oh, my dad did something that is now culturally insensitive and I need to make it right."
Nope.
That is not Lara Croft.

I doubt this show is going to find a way to right the wrongs she's been given with the recent imposters in the games and current iterations of this character.

[eightslicesofpie]

Originally Posted by KcMsterpce

IDK what to say, really. When you hire an untalented actress that looks like an anorexic, strung out meth addict for a character that started out as a busty, confident, self-assured intelligent adventurer that - over the last handful of years - has been transformed into a wimpy, whiny self-sorry sad sack of sadness that is pushed into some kind of quest... Seeing Turner as the next iteration of Croft hints that they won't play up the character that became famous.
They are going to lean further into the complete assassination of Lara Croft. This has reached a new peak that was established with the animated series, and was on the "verge of becoming" when Vikander did her movie (which I liked, and hoped they would make another installment with improvements on its potential). Back then, the movie was trying to balance the "original fans' desires for what Tomb Raider is about" and juggling the "new games and unwilling-to-do-adventures Croft fanbase". It kind of failed at both, but also did a great job establishing that they are OBVIOUSLY trying to balance incorporating the "new" Croft while trying not to abandon the OG fans of the games/franchise.

With Turner in this role, it's obvious that they are doubling down on the already doubled-down "remix" of a "new" Tomb Raider, which is a deconstructionist slap in the face to the source material. Without the Croft that made the franchise popular, these "new iterations " couldn't be created in the first place. But they smite, spit and dismiss that as "aged", but... I wager a fair number of the viewers keep watching with the hope that it couldn't get worse, but... here we are.
We are now stuck with Turner as the next person named Lara Croft, but only in name, not in any other manner. The Lara Croft of today is not a "Tomb Raider".... she is using the name of someone that was once famous, adored by young boys with hopes and dreams of a female sexy Bond who could kick ass solving puzzles, to... whatever this imitation sludge is.

Regardless of what you think of Sophie Turner's acting ability, if you scroll up in this thread and look at that photo of her in the bathing suit and think she looks "anorexic" and like a "strung out meth addict" then I have serious doubts about your connection to reality

[Spearmint701]

I don't have much of a problem with Sophie Turner as Croft, nice that she's British. She won't be as busy as the video game character, but neither was Vikander, and she did a good job.

The Crystal Dynamics trilogy for Tomb Raider are possibly the best TR games out there, and it was nice to see Vikander's TR movie be similar to the first game.

Be interesting to see which route the TV show goes down.

[saxomaphone]

No Lara Croft with the honka tonkas=No sale.

[Warm Gun]

Yeah, I watched the first Jolie movie and thought it sucked. They didn't understand TR at all. But by then the game series had already lost its way.

[Kylo_Ren]

I've got nothing against Turner, but my choice for the next Lara Croft was Daisy Ridley.

She would have been great in the role.

Perhaps when they reboot this yet again for the big screen, they might cast her.