Rumor: Tomb Raider Director Shortlist Includes Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Hardwicke & Mimi Leder.

According to The Tracking Board, Warner Brothers has narrowed down the field of potential [...]

By Jay Jayson

According to The Tracking Board, Warner Brothers has narrowed down the field of potential directors of their Tomb Raider reboot to three names: Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Hardwicke, and Mimi Leder.

Kathryn Bigelow would be an amazing get! She won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker, but most mainstream audiences know and love her work on Point Break and Zero Dark Thirty. Mimi Leder (Pay it Forward) would be a fine choice as well. She tends to work in television for the most part, but when she does venture into features films she makes a ... Deep Impact! And then there is ... Catherine Hardwicke. She directed Red Riding Hood and the first Twilight film.

Tomb Raider is a popular video game series that features British archeologist/adventurer Lara Croft, as she crisscrosses the globe looking for priceless treasures and legendary artifacts. Along the way, she has to deal with dangerous foes that will do anything to beat her to the prize.

Angelina Jolie played the world's most famous video-game heroine in two-live action films: 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and 2003's The Cradle of Life. The first film pocketed $274M at the worldwide box office, but the sequel only pulled in $150M.

The reboot will reportedly feature a young version of Lara Croft as she embarks on her first treasure-hunting adventure. The script was written by screenwriter Evan Daugherty (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Snow White and the Hunstman).

Featuring epic, high-octane action moments set in the most beautiful hostile environments on earth, Rise of the Tomb Raider delivers a cinematic survival action adventure where you will join Lara Croft on her first tomb raiding expedition as she seeks to discover the secret of immortality.

Rise of the Tomb Raider will release for Xbox One in November.

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