Alicia Vikander, who won an Oscar for her performance in “The Danish Girl,” will take over the role of Lara Croft in the “Tomb Raider” movies, based on the video games, Variety reported.
She’ll be taking over from Angelina Jolie, who played Croft in several films in the 2000s. Continue reading
Of all the young actors who pulled off star-making turns in The Force Awakens (John Boyega, the tiny mouse that controls BB-8, Greg Grunberg), it looks like Daisy Ridley is going to be the one who gets to claim the title of “New Chris Pratt.” In other words, her name is going to be attached to every single high-profile genre project in development, and rumors about her starring in things are going to pop up every few months. It’s fitting, then, given the many times Chris Pratt has been rumored to be starring in an Indiana Jones reboot, that the first hot rumor about Ridley is that she might star as the very Indiana Jones-like Lara Croft in a reboot of the Tomb Raider movie series. Continue reading