Chugging along the development halls for a few years now, the new film based on the adventures of video game icon Lara Croft has been through several writers – Marti Noxon and Evan Daugherty among them – but hasn’t found a director. That has now changed, as The Wave*’s Roar Uthaug has landed the job of making the new *Tomb Raider{
Uthaug – who surely has the best name for an action-adventure director we’ve heard in a long time – has been working away in Norway for a while and would make his English-language debut with Croft’s latest story. And if this all comes to pass, he will likely be collaborating with yet another writer as The Hollywood Reporter has heard that Geneva Robertson-Dworet (who has recently been part of the writing team on future Transformers films) is making a deal to script it.
No real details have been released about the potential movie, though it is expected to sidestep any need for Angelina Jolie (who played Croft in two films released by Paramount) by setting the clock back to Lara’s early days exploring. Warner Bros., MGM and Graham King’s GK films are behind this one, and are no doubt hoping that Tomb Raider picks up a little more momentum from here on out.