Warners Bros. Pictures and producer Dan Lin (upcoming Sherlock Holmes) are in early development on a a reboot of “Tomb Raider,” the popular video game action franchise featuring Lara Croft.

Paramount previously made the two movies based on the game, but the rights have since reverted to Eidos. When Time Warner upped its stake to 19.92% in Eidos in December, films rights to the property were included as part of the deal.

Lin will produce the project via his Lin Pictures while Stephen Gilchrist will co-produce; Ian Livingstone of Eidos will executive produce.

The new project, however, is expected to revamp the character and her mission and bear little resemblance to the original pictures. It will reimagine the origins of the character, her love interest and the main villain.

As an open-writing assignment, the project is still in its nascent stages. An actress who could play the role Angelina Jolie made famous would likely come on after a writer and director are attached.

SOURCE: Coming Soon

Within five minutes you’ve killed a couple of Great Whites, then within hours you’ve moved on to black panthers, by way of spiders, bats, skeleton dogs, giant monitors and tigers. Tigers for god’s sake! It just wouldn’t be Tomb Raider if you weren’t indiscriminately killing things that are on the verge of extinction.

Bravo Crystal Dynamics!

The question is, however – is there a correlation between the number of nearly-extinct (or extinct –T-Rex’s haven’t been brought back yet, right?) creatures you get to kill in a Tomb Raider game and its quality? Angel of Darkness, after all, featured close to [MEMORY NOT FOUND]. Oh, bugger, that’s right. Sorry folks, I forgot (ha!) that I had all memories of that game surgically removed from my brain. All I have is a vague recollection of eating chocolate bars off the ground in the sewers of Paris. Shame, because if Angel of Darkness didn’t let Lara drain the bile from Asiatic black bears or club snow leopards to death, then we could have established a correlation. Guess you’ll have to let me know in the comments.

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Courtesy of Gamespot:

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