Casting Call: Tomb Raider

[Orangutango]

Originally Posted by HowConvenient

Thank you. And as I said, while Camilla definitely looks young for her age, she doesn't look 21, and since she is 29 and they are considering making several films, casting her would be an unnecessary gamble, because she could age really quickly, while Lara might not be aging at all or just a little between the films. Plus, her accent is a mess so she's really no better off than an American or Canadian actress, and her voice is really high pitched; I could put up with one or the other but together they are super annoying and they really don't fit Lara at all.



Thank you! I put a lot of time and effort into writing it so it's nice to know someone read it and appreciated it. :P Yes, that's what I think as well.

Casting for the role of Lara is going is going to really hard.

[HowConvenient]

Originally Posted by AimlessThunder

It was a fantastic post . Looking forward to reading more of the same quality .

Haha thanks!

Casting for the role of Lara is going is going to really hard.

It definitely will be! I just hope they don't let us down. I really want to see this film put Lara back at the top, because she deserves it, and make the rest of the world love her as much as I do. I would go see it no matter what unless they cast Kristen Stewart, then I might have to go burn down the studio.

[HRHCroft]

Originally Posted by HowConvenient

It definitely will be! I just hope they don't let us down. I really want to see this film put Lara back at the top, because she deserves it, and make the rest of the world love her as much as I do. I would go see it no matter what unless they cast Kristen Stewart, then I might have to go burn down the studio.

Good God that would be ghastly! I'm still in awe someone saw fit to cast her as Snow White in that film where Charlize Theron played the evil Queen. Was the casting director one of the few people in the world who didn't know about the whole 'fairest in the land' part of the story?

I'd also like to reiterate what you said regarding a 'name' playing Lara being unnecessary, which I totally agree with. The "Tomb Raider" name and brand are still very relevant, and the Lara Croft character is still very much within the public's conscious. They don't need a well known actress to sell it.

[HowConvenient]

Originally Posted by HRHCroft

Good God that would be ghastly! I'm still in awe someone saw fit to cast her as Snow White in that film where Charlize Theron played the evil Queen. Was the casting director one of the few people in the world who didn't know about the whole 'fairest in the land' part of the story?

I'd also like to reiterate what you said regarding a 'name' playing Lara being unnecessary, which I totally agree with. The "Tomb Raider" name and brand are still very relevant, and the Lara Croft character is still very much within the public's conscious. They don't need a well known actress to sell it.

Well supposedly Warner Bros wanted to reboot Tomb Raider in 2009 and asked Kristen Stewart after Megan Fox turned it down. Glad that didn't happen!! She's already ruined enough films. That would be like apocalypse bad! And I could suspend my disbelief about the fairest in the land thing if she could actually act; you could replace her with a cardboard cut-out and as long as it had the same stupid expression that she always has no one would know the difference. :/

Thanks, I really believe that as well; Tomb Raider is still relevant, loved, and the reboot put Lara back in the spotlight and introduced her to a new audience. The reboot was fantastic and very successful, going on nothing more than the franchise name and advertising, so if the film follows it well enough and they advertise well, it should be way more successful, as films reach a much larger audience than games. This film is going to put Lara back at the top and make a young actress a very big star if they do things right and make a film as great as the game. But the actress is key, she must embody Lara! They can choose from anyone in the world so no compromises! :P

[Lil91]

All actresses that were named - are the same actresses people want for 50 shades of grey (besides Camilla Luddington)

And after i saw her on the last GA-episode (didn't see on whole episode in almost 2 years) I must say: I like her acting... and

http://screencapped.net/tv/greysanat...s9x23_0852.jpg
"You must see the other one"

http://screencapped.net/tv/greysanat...s9x23_0168.jpg

She was going Lara Croft in Greys Anatomy and I really like her acting skills. I only watched this episode bc of her. So I'm all in for #LuddingtonForCroft

(But I sure will watch it if she is not Lara Croft)

[The1andOnlyTR]

Emma Fitzpatrick anyone?

[HRHCroft]

If I may toss another name into the hat: Jessica Lowndes. I'm surprised this one didn't occur to me earlier.



Now, despite the fact she was on the rather ghastly "90210" she really is a decent actress (one of the very, very few on that show!). I just watched a horror flick she starred in, "Altitude", in which her character pilots a small plane caught in a supernatural storm and a lot of the intense emotional stuff reminded me of moments from "TR2013" (that's how this choice 'clicked' for me).

Lara-esque hair!


Roughed up, ala Lara in the reboot.

Drawbacks would be she's Canadian and to my knowledge has never done an accent before, and she's never done an action role but she's very beautiful, she's got the 'Lara look' (IMO, anyway), the aforementioned acting chops and she's age appropriate.