TOMB RAIDER 2 Will Be Written and Directed By LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Creator Misha Green

MGM is moving forward with its Tomb Raider sequel! Alicia Vikander is set to reprise her role in the film as Lara Croft, and the creator and director of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Misha Green, has been hired to write and direct the movie.

Tomb Raider 2 will mark Green’s feature film directorial debut and it seems like a great first film project for her! I enjoyed most of what she did with Lovecraft Country, so if she can bring some of that wild imagination to Tomb Raider, that could be a blast!

The last Tomb Raider movie that was made came from director Roar Uthaug and I enjoyed it! I’ve been looking forward to the sequel getting made, and with Green jumping on board to develop it, this could turn out to be a solid sequel. It’ll be interesting to see how the adventurous story of this character will continue.

Green is the showrunner and executive producer of Lovecraft Country, alongside Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams. She wrote and is producing The Mother for Netflix, producing Warner Brothers’ Cleopatra Jones and Makeready’s The Gilded Ones. She is also the co-creator, writer, and producer of the WGN series Underground.

What do you think about Green taking on the writing and directing duties of Tomb Raider 2?

Source: Deadline

Engage in an RP Heavy Narrative Adventure with THE PUPPETEER OF VALESTONE

Jesse Jerdak has a new adventure for Dungeons & Dragons fans to enjoy called The Puppeteer of Valestone. This adventure is a mystery designed to be more focused on the narrative and roleplaying aspects and can be used as a one shot or as part of a larger campaign. Players will end up at the remote farm town of Valestone where things don’t seem to be going super great. Players should be between level 3-6. Also, along with the adventure, The Puppeteer of Valestone has STL files for 3D printing minis and battle maps that can be printed or imported into your favorite virtual tabletop.

Something terrible has happened to the remote farm town known as Valestone, and only a plucky, disheveled, elven girl named Moira knows the truth. Guide your players along with Moira and her unconventional coping mechanisms. Unravel the mystery, the comedy, and the tragedy of this once lively little town.

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Lovecraft Country’s Misha Green Tapped to Write/Direct Tomb Raider Sequel

Lovecraft Country's Misha Green Tapped to Write/Direct Tomb Raider Sequel

Lovecraft Country’s Misha Green tapped to write/direct Tomb Raider sequel

After initially setting Rebecca‘s Ben Wheatley for the position, MGM’s Alicia Vikander-fronted Tomb Raider sequel is shifting gears as Lovecraft Country developer/showrunner Misha Green has been tapped to both write and direct the follow-up to the 2018 video game adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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It was previously announced in September 2019 that Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, High-Rise) would direct the untitled sequel and that production on the MGM and Warner Bros. movie was initially planned for last year with a release date originally set for March 19, 2021, but was subsequently delayed due to the ongoing pandemic and WB exiting the project.

The sequel was to written by Amy Jump, who is a regular collaborator with Wheatley and previously worked on High-Rise, Free Fire, A Field in England, Sightseers, and Kill List together. Jump was taking over writing duties for Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, who co-wrote the first movie, only to be replaced by Green. Plot details on the sequel are being kept under wraps. Graham King will once again produce through his GK Films banner.

Based on the video game character, the 2018 Tomb Raider and earned $274.7 million at the worldwide box office. In the movie, Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.

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Tomb Raider also starred Dominic West (Money Monster, 300), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained) and Daniel Wu (Into the Badlands). Roar Uthaug (The Wave) directed the film, and Graham King (The Departed) served as a producer through GK Films.

(Photo Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)

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