New Tomb Raider Movie Will Be Similar to New Tomb Raider Game

Crystal Dynamics, the developers of the long running Tomb Raider video game series, is getting ready to reboot the franchise with a title that focuses on the origins of Lara Croft, strategy that is going to be replicated by the new Tomb Raider movie, currently in pre-production.

The Tomb Raider series was, arguably, one of the first video game franchises that really became a part of mainstream culture, even getting a series of relatively successful movies starring the lovely Angelina Jolie as the heroine of the games, Lara Croft.

Sadly, the last few titles didn’t exactly became as successful as Crystal Dynamics would have wanted, so the UK-based studio is working on a new game, called simply Tomb Raider, that tells a more realistic story about Lara’s origins, and will arrive in 2012.

GK Films is also working on a brand new Tomb Raider movie and, according to the producer of the project, Graham King, it will also track the beginning of Lara’s life.

Talking with Coming Soon, King said that the new title will be “a character piece” that’s going to completely reboot the movie series.

“I find it interesting that the story that we're telling is really the story before she became Lara Croft, so it is a character piece," he said. "It does have a lot of really great characters, but it's a lot of action and a lot of fun, and for me, it's something very different. I've not really done a movie like that before, but I really gravitated to rebooting this franchise and we're going to give it a shot."

King is set to produce the new title, after working on other stellar movies like The Departed or Gangs of New York, while Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the writing duo behind Iron Man, will come up with the story of the movie.

While King declined to comment on when the project might actually go into production, rumors are saying that a possible 2013 release is targeted.