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IMO would be Steven Speilburg. His movies are awesome. Anyone agree?
Nah...
I would rather see Tim Burton or Alfonso Cuarón take on a TR movie.
and let Hans Zimmer do the music, that guy is simply a brilliant composer.
dark_angel_7
09-01-07, 17:45
I would have either Steven Speilberg, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Ang Lee or the guy that made the 1st TR movie.
Terminatorvs
09-01-07, 18:04
I'd rather not have another TR movie at all.
stereopathic
09-01-07, 19:33
all of the guys y'all are talking about are too big now to take on a TR movie. it's gotta be someone trying to make a name for themself like LCTR's Simon West or someone trying to rebuild a career like CoL's Jan De Bont. unfortunately, if there is a new movie, it will prolly be helmed by a virtual unknown.
i personally would love Joe Carnahan, who did the awesome indie, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane and the ultra-gritty NARC. here's got a new one coming out called Smokin' Aces that looks pretty cool, too.
IMO would be Steven Speilburg. His movies are awesome. Anyone agree?
Agreed.:tmb:
He's the best director ever.:D His films are great!
Laurencarter
10-01-07, 15:20
I think they should get a director who is still trying to make a name for himself and he must also not be too old.
Like I said Alfonso Cuarón would be a good -not yet known- director.
He made Harry potter 3 and more recently Children of Men, an absolute brilliant movie!! He's 46.
stereopathic
10-01-07, 18:07
cuarón is an outstanding director and i also loved children of men. loved it! however, taking on the tomb raider franchise would be a step back for his career. unfortunately for us, we still have to think smaller.
robert rodriguez would be a nice choice, but i think the success of sin city has put him out of the TR league. but what about kurt wimmer? he did equilibrium and ultraviolet. i think he'd fit quite nicely.
or maybe david twohy? he directed pitch black, the chronicles of riddick and the arrival.
I thought the first one was directed very well. The second one was a shame because Jan de Bont (its director) had excellent reception for his native Dutch films but unfortunately has never had the same success (and I don't mean in the commercial/critical sense) in English-speaking cinema.
I don't think Peter Jackson would make a good director. Kong was boring. LOTR was repetitive (despite on general being an excellent film trilogy).
My first instinct would be to unleash Simon West with a plot truer to the atmosphere of the games, and see where he takes it.
As pointed out before, Hans Zimmer would make some excellent music. I adore the Gladiator soundtrack. John Williams and Danny Elfman are also fantastic - and I really think an Indiana Jones-inspired soundtrack (with enough of Nathan McCree's main theme in) would be superb.
IMO would be Steven Speilburg. His movies are awesome. Anyone agree?
I do. But Simon West is a good director, too.
Simon west was pretty good. The house scene was awesome. But steven speilburg is awesome. imagine if he made tr1 into a movie? With like the dinosaur part. omg thatd be cool.
Yeah. It would be really cool!
my favourite would be QUENTIN TARANTINO NOT ROGEZE IT WILL BE CALLED LOVE RAIDER THAN.:p
tothpictures
12-01-07, 16:15
I know it doesn't ever hurt to hope, but I guarentee all of you that Steven Spielberg, nor any other famous director, will ever think about even touching a TR project. It's just not in the cards.
What Paramount needs is a dedicated director. Take Christophe Gans when he directed the successful videogame adaptable: SILENT HILL.
He actually sat down and played all of the Silent Hill games to get a feel as to what a good adaptation would look like. And what did he end up with? THE BEST VIDEOGAME ADAPTION-TO-SCREEN film ever!
Tthe Spirit
12-01-07, 17:30
it maybe different now.
tombraider fans have increased in number....
what they need is more advertisment and a proper release date...
and those big directors will love to role in such a movie...
time will tell
it maybe different now.
tombraider fans have increased in number....
what they need is more advertisment and a proper release date...
and those big directors will love to role in such a movie...
time will tell
No, it doesn't matter how many fans of the game there are; that may have been important for the first movie, but after the flops of both TR flicks (even with an Oscar-winning actress), it'd take a lot more than some advertisement and a good release date. Video game-to-movie films are like the bottom of the cinema barrel to most directors, especially high-grossing ones like Spielberg.
stereopathic
12-01-07, 18:24
i wouldn't say the tomb raider movies flopped. both were bad movies but the first one pulled in almost $200M. even the second made $65M, well short of expectations, sure, but still nothing to sneeze at. silent hill only made $25M and tothpictures called that a success. i suppose it comes down to how you look at these things.
unfortunately, all of the films mentioned were just plain bad. i feel that CoL is the best video game movie ever made, obviously some feel it's silent hill. the fact is that that's not saying much as all were truly awful. combine that with the growing inability to get people to pay to see them and you have a precise formula for why spielberg or anyone of his ilk will never touch tomb raider 3.
*all dollar figures are net...not gross.
AmericanAssassin
12-01-07, 21:21
If Peter Jackson made this movie I would die!!! He's awesome!!! Nobody could make a better adventure movie!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
tothpictures
12-01-07, 23:54
i wouldn't say the tomb raider movies flopped. both were bad movies but the first one pulled in almost $200M. even the second made $65M, well short of expectations, sure, but still nothing to sneeze at. silent hill only made $25M and tothpictures called that a success. i suppose it comes down to how you look at these things.
unfortunately, all of the films mentioned were just plain bad. i feel that CoL is the best video game movie ever made, obviously some feel it's silent hill. the fact is that that's not saying much as all were truly awful. combine that with the growing inability to get people to pay to see them and you have a precise formula for why spielberg or anyone of his ilk will never touch tomb raider 3.
*all dollar figures are net...not gross.
Okay, I don't know exactly where you get your box office numbers, but SILENT HILL raked in $46 million in the U.S. and was #1 it's opening week with $21 million alone. Not to mention all the money it made outside the U.S. So, I don't know where your weak $25 million came from...
And grant it, $46 million isn't that much...but when you look at the continually plundering track record that movies have had in the past couple of years, you will agree that $46 is a pretty good hold for a monster movie. In 2003, Texas Chainsaw opened @ $28 million and went on to rake in $80...and after that, with the exception of the SAW films, horror movie ranks began to plunder because even the retarted American audiences realized that most American horror movies made nowadays are LAME!!!!!!
It's really tuff to say whether or not a third Tomb Raider movie would do the studio and the public good. It could either be a big success or completely flop.
Here's hope, however:
ROCKY made $117, ROCKY 2 made only $85, and ROCKY 3 rocketed back up to $125....that's a HUGE JUMP! And considering that the first two numbers are kinda kinda close to both the TR films, maybe the 3rd time around for TR will be a charm!
tothpictures
12-01-07, 23:56
i wouldn't say the tomb raider movies flopped. both were bad movies but the first one pulled in almost $200M. even the second made $65M, well short of expectations, sure, but still nothing to sneeze at. silent hill only made $25M and tothpictures called that a success. i suppose it comes down to how you look at these things.
unfortunately, all of the films mentioned were just plain bad. i feel that CoL is the best video game movie ever made, obviously some feel it's silent hill. the fact is that that's not saying much as all were truly awful. combine that with the growing inability to get people to pay to see them and you have a precise formula for why spielberg or anyone of his ilk will never touch tomb raider 3.
*all dollar figures are net...not gross.
Okay, I don't know exactly where you get your box office numbers, but SILENT HILL raked in $46 million in the U.S. and was #1 it's opening week with $21 million alone. Not to mention all the money it made outside the U.S. So, I don't know where your weak $25 million came from...
And grant it, $46 million isn't that much...but when you look at the continually plundering track record that horror movies have had in the past couple of years, you will agree that $46 is a pretty good hold for a monster movie. In 2003, Texas Chainsaw opened @ $28 million and went on to rake in $80...and after that, with the exception of the SAW films, horror movie ranks began to plunder because even the retarted American audiences realized that most American horror movies made nowadays are LAME!!!!!!
It's really tuff to say whether or not a third Tomb Raider movie would do the studio and the public good. It could either be a big success or completely flop.
Here's hope, however:
ROCKY made $117, ROCKY 2 made only $85, and ROCKY 3 rocketed back up to $125....that's a HUGE JUMP! And considering that the first two numbers are kinda kinda close to both the TR films, maybe the 3rd time around for TR will be a charm!
stereopathic
13-01-07, 00:14
Okay, I don't know exactly where you get your box office numbers, but SILENT HILL raked in $46 million in the U.S. and was #1 it's opening week with $21 million alone. Not to mention all the money it made outside the U.S. So, I don't know where your weak $25 million came from...
And grant it, $46 million isn't that much...but when you look at the continually plundering track record that horror movies have had in the past couple of years, you will agree that $46 is a pretty good hold for a monster movie. In 2003, Texas Chainsaw opened @ $28 million and went on to rake in $80...and after that, with the exception of the SAW films, horror movie ranks began to plunder because even the retarted American audiences realized that most American horror movies made nowadays are LAME!!!!!!
It's really tuff to say whether or not a third Tomb Raider movie would do the studio and the public good. It could either be a big success or completely flop.
Here's hope, however:
ROCKY made $117, ROCKY 2 made only $85, and ROCKY 3 rocketed back up to $125....that's a HUGE JUMP! And considering that the first two numbers are kinda kinda close to both the TR films, maybe the 3rd time around for TR will be a charm!
as i said in my post, all dollar figures are net, not gross. silent hill grossed over $70M worldwide. that's not all that good for a movie that cost $50M to make.
so you see it's wasn't my "weak 25 million." it was silent hill's "weak 25 million."
i wouldn't say the tomb raider movies flopped. both were bad movies but the first one pulled in almost $200M. even the second made $65M, well short of expectations, sure, but still nothing to sneeze at. silent hill only made $25M and tothpictures called that a success. i suppose it comes down to how you look at these things.
unfortunately, all of the films mentioned were just plain bad. i feel that CoL is the best video game movie ever made, obviously some feel it's silent hill. the fact is that that's not saying much as all were truly awful. combine that with the growing inability to get people to pay to see them and you have a precise formula for why spielberg or anyone of his ilk will never touch tomb raider 3.
*all dollar figures are net...not gross.
I wasn't necessarily saying it was a flop financially, but critically and even amongst TR fans, the movies did not do very well - As you said yourself. The first seemed to get at least a decent amount of support from fans of the games, but the second one definitely did not do well by any means.
Ivana belara
14-01-07, 04:10
In the first weekend that TR1 came out it was ranked the highest grossing film for a female heroin. It was huge too. Opening weekend it made almost 48 million dollars and continued to grow to 275 mil world wide. I think that this is awesome for a movie. But the other, well, not to good. Opening weekend only 22 mil, but growing to 157 mil, which still isn't to bad really. It could have done much worse.
Some people blamed tr2 for being bad because of AOD.
IMO Silent Hill was nicely done. good director btw.
dont 4get speilburg is a gamer.
Peter Croft
14-01-07, 08:46
In my opinion Stephen Sommers will be a good director of TR3M. He was made "Mummy" and "Maummy:Returns". Also Tarantino or Cameron. Spielberg is good too. :jmp: :jmp:
The guy who directed the Mummy series would do a good job of TR imo, as would any other passionate director who loves TR.
Gans did a fantastic job with Silent Hill, and I really agree that that game is the best Game/film adaption. :tmb:
(Psst.. Hans Zimmer needs to make some TR music!)
Nah...
I would rather see Tim Burton or Alfonso Cuarón take on a TR movie.
and let Hans Zimmer do the music, that guy is simply a brilliant composer.
Tim Burton direct a TR movie??! Tim Burton is great director but his movies are all kinda strange, I do like Tim Burton movies but I don't want Lara to be chased around by animated dolls that look like those from the nightmare before Christmas (or beetlejuice for that matter)... But I agree with you on Alfonso, I'd simply LOVE to see him to a tomb raider movie. I especially like what he did to the Harry Potter series, the first to movies just weren't magic enough. Spielbergs movies are kinda strange in a way too, but not crazy-strange like Burton's. But the one director that IMO most likely will do the best job on TR3 is Peter Jackson!! His version of king kong was AMAZING!
And I'd like to have Hans Zimmer or Christopher young do the music...
I think it was this trailer that embedded the Hans Zimmer & TR image firmly in my mind :D
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I think it was this trailer that embedded the Hans Zimmer & TR image firmly in my mind :D
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wow, great music. Really suits the video.:D
Night_Heaven
16-01-07, 21:34
I'd rather not have another TR movie at all.
Haleluia ...I agree
^ i dont agree. btw they should turn tr4 into a movie.
tothpictures
17-01-07, 06:49
Speaking of SILENT HILL, I just read on upcominghorrormovies.com that there is a Silent Hill 2 in talks for production!!!!!! YEAH!
Anyways, I think that MUMMY director Stephen Sommers is good as action comedy...and TR my friends is NOT action comedy! This new TR needs to be serious and adventurous! Lots of interesting angles and LONG, intense battles. Blazings guns, T-rex's in THE LOST VALLEY...and all that good Lara stuff!
My personal thoughts on the TR film franchise is that no matter what the story, actors, musical composers and director that are used, most people will still see the movie as a rip off of Indiana Jones. It's this thought that is crippling the films from doing well (among other things). Spielberg is a great director but I think his current directing style wouldn't go well with this sort of film. Tim Burton is not a good choice since his films tend to be more along the order of film noir/German expressionistic (aka strange and dreamy). As for Alfonso Cuarón, after seeing the previews for Children of Men, I could see his style working with the film but overall I would have to say that the right director would have to be one that's style matches the tone of the story, in which case, it's up to the writers to get a decent storyline out this time. Hans Zimmer...yea I could see him with TR. Would he do it? Probably not but I could see his style adding some needed life to the films.
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