Tomb Raider 2 will be done?
It is a question that we have been asking ourselves for some time (the last time we talked about it in October ), but which has not yet found a convincing answer, neither in a positive nor in a negative sense. The answer that star Alicia Vikander has recently given is perhaps the most eloquent, unfortunately in the negative: the film is in limbo.
The problem isn’t creative: Misha Green , author of the Lovecraft Country series , wrote the script and is in talks to direct. If anything, the issue is “political,” as Vikander explained to Entertainment Weekly . Asked if the sequel, whose working title is Tomb Raider: Obsidian , would ever happen, the actress replied:
With the merger of MGM and Amazon , I have no idea. Now it’s all politics. Misha and I are ready, so it’s all in someone else’s hands, to be honest.
Alicia Vikander also described herself as “enthusiastic” about Misha Green’s vision, adding that she loved “what she did with Lovecraft Country “.
In the past, the star has also blamed Covid for putting a spoke in the wheel of the project.
The first Tomb Raider , reboot of the saga after the two adaptations of the video game played by Angelina Jolie , was released in 2018. Costing 94 million dollars, it has grossed 274 in the world. Not a smash hit, but good enough to warrant a sequel. But perhaps we will never see.