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[Bond007]

Ugh
She was the worst part of Dial of Destiny. Another know it all superhero

 

[digoutyoursoul]

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

I guess we can expect a feminist manifesto masquerading as a faithful adaptation of Lara Crofts Tomb raider. How could it possibly go wrong?

 

[Black_Stride]

Killing eve is fucking awful, unless your hot on BBC drama.

Nothing Revisionist about NTTD, i couldn't even finish it, is boring.

She's in Dial of Destiny, thats enough.

Fleabag I have not seen.

For for me she's 0 for 3, with me not seeing the 4th option.

What? Yes i have a different opinion to yours. Unbelievable eh?

Being an actor and being a writer are totally different things.
There are many good writers who are bad actors and vice versa.
Acting with a garbage script will be garbage regardless of their talent.
So Dial of Destiny is of no worth in this discussion.


Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
You thought Killing Eve was "fucking awful" and you thought No Time To Die was too boring to even finish.
Thats your opinion so I aint gonna fight you on that one.

What? Yes i have a different opinion to yours. Unbelievable eh?

That was to the Amazon is gonna fill Tomb Raider with wokeness.

Don't care for BBC/BBC-like drama. Not sure how well she'd do, for something like Tomb Raider. Just not a fan of her work from what I've seen.

Well cant change peoples opinion in ragards to not liking Killing Eve.
But the majority of the world liked it, its awards pull and viewership is a testament to that.

 

[midnightAI]

Whats really interesting is that we are getting a Spider-Man Noir series......led by Nic Cage?

 

[winjer]

She didnt write Dial of Destiny and acting like No Time To Die is garbage is some serious revisionist shit.

I despised watching No time to die. Maybe the worst Bond movie ever made.
The only decent part was the sequence with Ana de Armas and Daniel Craig.
The villain is awful and Malek's interpretation was terrible. Usually, he does great work, but he dropped a turd in this movie.
Nomi was just there to make a bitch face, while Bond did all the work.
And the story was so disconnected and lame. It was painful to watch.

Compared to something like Casino Royale, No time to die was terrible.

 

[Zarak]

Please god no.

 

[ResilientBanana]

remember when looking ugly in movies was brave? Now it's just standard.

 

[xrnzaaas]

The last one with Alicia Vikander was pretty bad so not really down with this and the ones with Angelina Jolie was crap as well. Tomb Raider doesn't work on the big screen. Plus it's on Amazon

The ideal would be a combination of both - a hot busty lead with a little more engaging story with some bits & locations known from the games. Obviously the pretty female lead part won't work for modern Hollywood.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Ew.

 

[Black_Stride]

remember when looking ugly in movies was brave? Now it's just standard.

Watch her cast a fucking baddie as Lara Croft.

I despised watching No time to die. Maybe the worst Bond movie ever made.
The only decent part was the sequence with Ana de Armas and Daniel Craig.
The villain is awful and Malek's interpretation was terrible. Usually, he does great work, but he dropped a turd in this movie.
Nomi was just there to make a bitch face, while Bond did all the work.
And the story was so disconnected and lame. It was painful to watch.

Compared to something like Casino Royale, No time to die was terrible.

Quantum of Solace and Spectre exist.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

After ruining Indiana Jones, now she sets her target on Tomb Raider.
It's like she is trying to destroy every adventure film and videogames.

She actually is, part of the woke agenda is to destroy all historical media which is against woke principles

The real question is why Disney is okay with it since shareholders get kinda pissed when venerable money making franchises like Indiana Jones get buried in shallow graves

 

[mitch1971]

100% Lara is going to steal back artifacts from "the bad guys" and return them to indigenous people while explaining that raiding tombs is bad.

So, temple of doom.

 

[ManaByte]

Didnt read the article.....or the thread huh?

 

[LordCBH]

Watch her cast a fucking baddie as Lara Croft.



Quantum of Solace and Spectre exist.

Both of which were more entertaining than No Time to Die.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Its Joever.

 

[GamesDontSuck]

She has written Fleabag, Killing Eve and accordingly did the screenplay for No Time to Die (did not know that) so she has the background.

As others have said she's not cast as anything yet. Doubt she'll be Lara but will most likely place herself in the show somehow. As one does.

 

[The ninja farmer]

You say this as if we didnt just get a great Fallout series and 2 great Sonic movies.(fight me)
If we only look at failures these things will never get adapted.

Granted i didnt even bother watching the Alicia Vikander Tomb Raider movie.....so I have no idea how bad or good it was.
But I liked the reboot series.....all of them,

Justice for the OG face too.....that chick was banging.

Hahahaha I know right.
Whats a writer gotta do to get some credit.
Considering Fleabag and Killing Eve are also her credits people are still nahhh sucks!

Yeah. One stuck to the lore and fan world expectation in general. The other was redone, after the first look at sonic went down like a hunchback falling down a flight of stairs

Nobody was judging an unmade tv show, I was merely pointing out the writing might not follow the game style (James bond and Indiana jones are among the worst of the recent films in the series. So I would say that provides more reason to be concerned)

But thanks for jumping in and helping make my point and not trying to defend whatever halo is meant to be (or countless other game to movie or series examples that were inspired to make changes to the game and what people love )

 

[The ninja farmer]

Both of which were more entertaining than No Time to Die.

Not far off the truth there. A trio of really terrible movies. And they stand out, as each movie before it was generally much better received and far more enjoyable to get through (granted spectre is scraping near the bottom of the barrel, but not below quantum)

Ana nearly saves her movie. But isn’t in it enough, but is still the most memorable character by a mile. In all 3 movies

 

[Neff]

I've only seen her in Indiana Jones. I was expecting to hate her based on the trailers and the backlash, and was surprised to find out that she was absolutely fine. In fact I'd go as far as to say she did a good job. Also would.

She was the worst part of Dial of Destiny.

The kid was appallingly redundant.

 

[Moriarty1889]

Look, she was great and perfect for Fleabag but casting her as Lara Croft... My dudes, what are you doing.

She is the FOR MODERN AUDIENCES PC version of Lara it seems. Have to make sure she won’t be objectified by those men who may tune in to watch the show.

 

[StueyDuck]

I've never seen a movie crap the bed with a literal sentence before .

 

[MetalFreak]

 

[Alan Silvestro]

Nooooooooooo.jpg

 

[captainnapalm]

Just a reminder that we had Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and James Cameron getting these sorts of jobs in the 80s and 90s.

 

[March Climber]

Is this a one-off movie? She is too old for a trilogy or franchise, which makes me think they should have chosen someone younger if this movie ends up successful.

Edit: I can’t tell with the article. If she isn’t the star, I at least hope they consider younger actresses in case this has traction.

 

[clarky]

Just a reminder that we had Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and James Cameron getting these sorts of jobs in the 80s and 90s.

Yeah all those classic videogame adaptations done by Spielberg Lucas and Cameron back in the day...............

 

[Mister Wolf]

We really gonna downplay Killing Eve and Fleabag.
Granted Killing Eve jumped the shark in the later seasons IMO.....it was a hell of a show.

Seasons three and four of Killing Eve were nothing to write home about. Awful ending to the series as well.

 

[worldwithpyramids]

lmao

 

[clarky]

Seasons three and four of Killing Eve were nothing to write home about. Awful ending to the series as well.

3 and 4 were straight dumpster fire, only hate watched because the Mrs forced it on me.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I did read the article and biggest job she had in writing was.. No Time to Die. Which was just terribly mid.

No Time to Die was great.

 

[Black_Stride]

She actually is, part of the woke agenda is to destroy all historical media which is against woke principles

hahahaha I cant tell if this is satire or not.

woke principles hahaha

Seasons three and four of Killing Eve were nothing to write home about. Awful ending to the series as well.

Im with you on that one.
Its one of those shows that needed to have ended early but money made it keep[ going and it eventually got soulless.

 

[Draugoth]

Lara Croft has always been about looks. That’s all anyone is judging here too. Not outlandish at all.

It would be no different if someone thought to cast Jack Black as Leon Kennedy and all of us would be “ewwwing” that too.

This,

Lara Croft is the female verison of Dante,

She's hot, shes's basically invincible, she bangs the male side kick and leaves them after the game ends.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This,

Lara Croft is the female verison of Dante,

She's hot, shes's basically invincible, she bangs the male side kick and leaves them after the game ends.

This sounds more like the female version of James Bond to me, but last I checked Lara doesn't bang anybody in the games

She's meant to be a hot female version of Indiana Jones but in the end both the female Indiana Jones and Nathan Drake, Sony's version of male Indiana Jones, ended up being more popular than the OG Indiana Jones

The Uncharted movie made more money than Indiana Jones and the Wokeness of Destiny too

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Jfc they're trolling up in entertainment lmao

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

It's gonna be shit. MASSIVE shit. Awful writer and an awful platform plagued by DEI insanity.

The only doubt is which will be worse: the live-action or the new game.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

She is being judged on her looks and for being a woman. Comments as ''disgusting'' or ''ew'' are not directed toward her acting/writing. Sometimes I think some of you have no women in your life. I wonder how your (generally speaking) mother or sister would feel if people talked about them like that.

Not championing "Ew," as an all time GOAT GAF post, but conversely, what the fuck?

ROFL

You don't know WHAT they're directed at, you little curmudgeon, it's a one word statement. The only thing you can possibly extrapolate from one word sentences is whatever the one word means. Ew. Disgusting.

Go write guides before your boss gets an-oh, sorry, not on a Mercante X thread.

The point stands, however. "Sometimes I think," Naaaahhhh Dawg, that's some Office Space jump to conclusions mat shit. Sheeeit.

 

[rubenburgt]

So many options and yet they choose this woman. I rather see Susan Boyle play Lara croft.

 

[AGRacing]

Read the article people.

Fleabag creator and star Waller-Bridge is writing the Tomb Raider series, but no cast has been set.

You know… unfortunately they’re both terrible ideas.

 

[winjer]

Quantum of Solace and Spectre exist.

No a huge bar to climb.
But those are still better than No time to die.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

She is being judged on her looks and for being a woman. Comments as ''disgusting'' or ''ew'' are not directed toward her acting/writing. Sometimes I think some of you have no women in your life. I wonder how your (generally speaking) mother or sister would feel if people talked about them like that.

I agree with you, besides the "or for being a woman" part, because it doesn't make a lot of sense (It doesn't make any sense, actually...)
Most of the comments here are deeply embarrassing, but if her being a woman was the issue, then they would need to have issues with Lara Croft as a character too.

I think it just boils down to her "not being hot".

Which... I can't say anything about. I personally am fully self-aware that I'm a ugly guy, and would feel pathetic judging someone (man or woman) for "not being hot".

To each their own... This comment section does prove that beauty is subjective, I guess Anyway, I agree.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

I agree with you, besides the "or for being a woman" part, because it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Most of the comments here are deeply embarrassing, but if her being a woman was the issue, then they would need to have issues with Lara Croft as a character too.

I think it just boils down to her "not being hot".

Which... I can't say nothing about. I personally am fully self-aware that I'm a ugly guy, and would feel pathetic judging someone (man or woman) for "not being hot".

To each their own... Anyway, I agree.

Peebutt Horseface Wall is directing and producing anyway, so that should be the first indicator of what most of us are grossed out by.

 

[RoboFu]

The only real problem I have with this is it will be filled with cliched feminist moments.

The guy thinks the woman is a secretary instead of the person in charge..

The guy thinks the woman is weak then she kicks his ass..

The guy keeps saying the woman cannot do thing Until the end when he has a complete charge of heart after she does thing ..

Woman doesn't need to fall in love with no man and leaves smiling...

Blah

 

[FoxMcChief]

Sweet Baby Inc. involved?

 

[hinch7]

No Time to Die was great.

Nah. Still a mediocre movie. And the ending was awful.

 

[Georome]

If excitement has a name, it's not Phoebe Waller-Bridge

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Another trashfire from amazon incoming

 

[FeralEcho]

After destroying Indy she's after Lara now,fuck this ugly talentless hack.

And seeing how she seems to love adventure themes then I guess we know who will star Elena in Uncharted 2.

 

[proandrad]

I've only seen her in Indiana Jones. I was expecting to hate her based on the trailers and the backlash, and was surprised to find out that she was absolutely fine. In fact I'd go as far as to say she did a good job. Also would.

The kid was appallingly redundant.

I’m in if they are going to doll her up like this.

 

[Neon Xenon]

Like with any adaptation (now more than ever), my primary concern is:
I hope the writing isn't shit.